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Forget face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the coronavirus is frequent hand washing, according to a medical adviser to the world’s airlines.
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What I learned about life at a company that deals in dead bodies
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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NICE choses not to recommend esketamine for treatment resistant depression
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Ten years after vaccination was introduced, no HPV16/18 infections were found in sexually active 16-18 year old females in England according to public health data
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Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated.
A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
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Acclaimed scientist gets brain surgery for alcohol addiction
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An examination of over 4700 clinical trials found that less than 45% of them reported their results on time, despite it being a legal requirement
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Research identifies new route for tackling drug resistance in skin cancer cells
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped "through the net" docs say
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America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too.
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Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate
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Ultrasound destroys eighty percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
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US FDA approving drugs at breakneck speed
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The gene patent question
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I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.
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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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