The Friday effect: Firm lobbying, the timing of drug safety alerts, and drug side effects ~health medicine Article 272 words 4 votes
We’ve officially annihilated a second strain of polio. Only one remains. ~science medicine Article 590 words 6 votes
4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease ~humanities.history Article 511 words 8 votes
Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong ~health medicine Article 9227 words, published Mar 18 2019 6 votes
She took her amputated leg home, and you can too ~health nsfw.medical medicine Article 969 words, published Jan 4 2017 10 votes
Babies born by Caesarean section have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds ~science medicine Article 702 words 18 votes
Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy ~health medicine Article 1118 words 5 votes
Conspiracy theorists have chilled real fluoride research, researchers say ~science chemistry medicine Article 1387 words 12 votes
Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal ~health medicine Article 1022 words 11 votes
A town for people with Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome: Patients moved from all over the country to Incline Village, Nevada, for an experimental drug. Then the drug disappeared. ~health medicine Article 6755 words 10 votes
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 ~health medicine Article 8361 words 9 votes
An ingenious microscope could change how quickly disease is detected ~science medicine Article 479 words 6 votes
Maybe your Zoloft stopped working because a liver fluke tried to turn your Nth-great-grandmother into a zombie ~science biology medicine Article 2631 words 6 votes
A vaccine for cat allergies is in development; early results are promising, aiming for market release in 2022 ~science biology medicine Article 617 words 7 votes
Supercharging the band-aid: Five futuristic bandages that could take wound healing to the next level ~health medicine Article 817 words 3 votes
How big pharma was captured by the one percent ~health healthcare medicine Article 3231 words, published Jun 28 2018 4 votes
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. ~humanities religion Article 4552 words 9 votes
Bendigo mother becomes the first Victorian to use Voluntary Assisted Dying law ~health medicine Article 371 words 7 votes
It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand ~health medicine Article 572 words 7 votes
He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious? ~health healthcare medicine Article 4724 words 8 votes
The story of CTVT—a contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog—gets weirder all the time ~science biology medicine Article 1658 words 12 votes
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 ~health medicine Link 3 votes
Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study ~science medicine Link 4 votes
Taking the sting out: Australian gene editing is crossing the pain threshold ~science medicine biology Article 1948 words 4 votes
Turning twenty-six is a potential death sentence for people with type 1 diabetes in America ~health healthcare medicine Article 2859 words 14 votes
Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows ~health medicine Article 3119 words 13 votes
Prescribing Opioids for a Sprained Ankle? - New research report shows an increase in patients being prescribed opioids after experiencing an ankle sprain ~health healthcare medicine Link 9 votes
Media frame: Fentanyl panic is worsening the overdose crisis ~health medicine Article 1319 words 5 votes
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? ~health medicine Article 7863 words 6 votes
Researchers say they’re closer to finding cure for HIV after using CRISPR technology to eliminate disease in live mice for the first time ~science biology medicine Article 701 words 9 votes
California's aggressive pro-vaccination policies have made a big difference ~health medicine healthcare Article 550 words 9 votes
Scientists successfully transfer first test tube rhino embryo ~science biology medicine Article 579 words 6 votes
Against 21st century race science: Scientists claim they can solve racial inequalities in health care through genetics. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous approach ~health medicine healthcare Article 1670 words 4 votes
Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients ~health nsfw healthcare medicine Article 2407 words 17 votes
The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins ~health medicine healthcare Article 6415 words 7 votes
How 3D printing could help shape surgery ~science medicine Article 1563 words, published Jun 19 2019 5 votes
Biohackers with diabetes are making their own insulin ~health medicine Article 83 words, published May 30 2019 17 votes
Shops full of vitamins, miracle pills 'trashing pharmacists' reputation' ~health medicine Article 557 words 5 votes
Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world? ~science medicine Article 2071 words 8 votes
'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma ~health medicine Article 1180 words 4 votes
Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin ~health healthcare medicine Article 249 words 11 votes
The MTHFR gene and why anti-vax doctors are ordering 23andMe tests ~science biology medicine Article 496 words 12 votes
Viruses to stop cholera infections – the viral enemy of deadly bacteria could be humanity’s friend ~science medicine Article 1000 words 5 votes