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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For patients with memory loss, working towards better diagnosis
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An afternoon with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Texas Anti-Vaccine Movement
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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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Academic claims she's discovered anal suppository 'cure' for homosexuality: A semen-eating worm is supposedly the cause of being gay.
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Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.
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Malaria is among the world’s biggest killers of children. Now there’s a vaccine.
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Developing a permanent treatment for lactose intolerance using gene therapy
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There's a gold-standard treatment for opioid addiction, one of America's top killers. What keeps treatment centers from using it?
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Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think
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A promising anti-HIV drug poses a dilemma
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'The horse nation is here for us': How Lakota culture is helping treat child trauma in South Dakota
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The gut microbiome as a major regulator of the gut-skin axis
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Far infrared radiation (FIR): Its biological effects and medical applications
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Psychedelic renaissance: Could MDMA help with PTSD, depression and anxiety?
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Ketamine may relieve depression by repairing damaged brain circuits
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What a year in space did to Scott Kelly
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A mysterious infection, spanning the globe in a climate of secrecy
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Some cancers become contagious
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Nova Scotia to become first in North America with presumed consent for organ donation
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I'm a Christian doctor and I help women have abortions. Here's how I reconcile that.
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Brain implants are happening — are you ready for yours?
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The drugs don’t work: What happens after antibiotics?
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