Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal
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No way to go (2007)
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The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease
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An ingenious microscope could change how quickly disease is detected
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Maybe your Zoloft stopped working because a liver fluke tried to turn your Nth-great-grandmother into a zombie
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A vaccine for cat allergies is in development; early results are promising, aiming for market release in 2022
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Supercharging the band-aid: Five futuristic bandages that could take wound healing to the next level
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How big pharma was captured by the one percent
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Can overdose-prevention sites work in the US?
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Bendigo mother becomes the first Victorian to use Voluntary Assisted Dying law
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It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand
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He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?
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Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
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Overdosing in Appalachia: Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis
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The insulin racket
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Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study
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Taking the sting out: Australian gene editing is crossing the pain threshold
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Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows
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Prescribing Opioids for a Sprained Ankle? - New research report shows an increase in patients being prescribed opioids after experiencing an ankle sprain
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Media frame: Fentanyl panic is worsening the overdose crisis
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The promise and price of cellular therapies - New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them?
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Researchers say they’re closer to finding cure for HIV after using CRISPR technology to eliminate disease in live mice for the first time
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Parkinson's disease-causing protein hijacks gut-brain axis
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Scientists successfully transfer first test tube rhino embryo
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Against 21st century race science: Scientists claim they can solve racial inequalities in health care through genetics. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous approach
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Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients
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The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins
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How 3D printing could help shape surgery
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Biohackers with diabetes are making their own insulin
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Shops full of vitamins, miracle pills 'trashing pharmacists' reputation'
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When you give a friend a kidney
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Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world?
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'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma
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Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
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Viruses to stop cholera infections – the viral enemy of deadly bacteria could be humanity’s friend
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Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices?
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The first 3D colour x-rays
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The birth-tissue profiteers - How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry
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The US movement against female genital mutilation is at a crossroads
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Silicon Valley's health-tech start-ups need to focus more on medical rigor and less on growth
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For patients with memory loss, working towards better diagnosis
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Study shows "the risk of HIV transmission through anal sex when HIV viral load is suppressed is effectively zero".
Risk of HIV transmission through condomless sex in serodifferent gay couples with the HIV-positive partner taking suppressive antiretroviral therapy (PARTNER): final results of a multicentre,...
Our results provide a similar level of evidence on viral suppression and HIV transmission risk for gay men to that previously generated for heterosexual couples and suggest that the risk of HIV transmission in gay couples through condomless sex when HIV viral load is suppressed is effectively zero. Our findings support the message of the U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable) campaign, and the benefits of early testing and treatment for HIV.
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Stanford team develops brain-rejuvenating antibodies that let old mice think like youngsters
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There’s another side to the opioid crisis
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I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month
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Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: A cross-sectional cohort study
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Not dead but gone: How a concussion changed my girlfriend's personality forever
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"Looping" has created an underground market for old Medtronic insulin pumps with a security flaw
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Synthetic speech generated from brain recordings
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Magnetic micro-robots
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