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Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S.

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China is on track to meet its growth target of around 5% this year and will roll out more proactive policies in 2026, ...

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A San Diego startup may have created what the scientific community has talked about for decades – a kind of universal flu ...

In one of the rockiest years yet for science, Philadelphia-area researchers still managed to celebrate many wins. Here are five of them.

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