Ten years ago, DNA tests were the future of medicine. Now they’re a social network — and a data privacy mess ~health medicine Article 2666 words 10 votes
Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate ~health healthcare medicine Article 4263 words 3 votes
Ultrasound destroys eighty percent of prostate cancers in one-year study ~health medicine Article 551 words, published Dec 4 2019 8 votes
I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids. ~health medicine Article 1671 words 12 votes
Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines ~science medicine Article 6746 words 6 votes
One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records ~humanities education.higher Article 684 words 6 votes
I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk ~tech google security Article 827 words 33 votes
The female problem: How male bias in medical trials ruined women's health ~health medicine Article 1898 words 10 votes
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