Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines
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One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records
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I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk
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The Friday effect: Firm lobbying, the timing of drug safety alerts, and drug side effects
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Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition
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4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease
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Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
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She took her amputated leg home, and you can too
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Inside the drug industry’s plan to defeat the DEA
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Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under US 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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The human antivenom project
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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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