The insulin racket
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Oregon will allow students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health
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Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows
13 votes -
Twenty-two states considered eliminating the ‘tampon tax’ this year. Here’s what happened
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Media frame: Fentanyl panic is worsening the overdose crisis
5 votes -
Why economic equality won’t fix mental health care
5 votes -
The chilling mystery of high-altitude suicides
6 votes -
Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients
17 votes -
The hidden cost of GoFundMe health care - When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins
7 votes -
San Francisco bans sales of e-cigarettes
16 votes -
US President Donald Trump signs executive order compelling disclosure of prices in health care
10 votes -
German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the US?
8 votes -
A year after spinal surgery, a $94,000 bill feels like a backbreaker
6 votes -
New York ends religious exemptions for required vaccines
14 votes -
It is official, the smoking age will be 21 in Texas
23 votes -
How doctors die: What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little
7 votes -
Oakland in California decriminalizes magic mushrooms and peyote
16 votes -
European Drug Report 2019 directly contrasts US drug crisis, tells a story of relative calm
7 votes -
The forgotten victim of the Salvation Army building collapse
4 votes -
Donald Trump: NHS must be on the table in US-UK trade talks
15 votes -
The subtle ways cities are restricting abortion access
6 votes -
Ten years after abortion doctor's brutal murder, one woman carries the fight for reproductive rights
7 votes -
All-American despair: For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers
12 votes -
U.S. measles cases in first five months of 2019 surpass total cases for any year since 1994, may cause loss of measles elimination status
7 votes -
Abortion clinics reported a surge in trespassing, vandalism and a historic high of picketing
11 votes -
The cancer capital of America: Eastern Kentucky is poor, remote, and inadequately serviced, and those factors have led to alarming rates of cancer in the area
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'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma
4 votes -
California Bill to put health warnings on sugary drinks and soda advances
14 votes -
Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
11 votes -
Our fury over abortion was dismissed for decades as hysterical
22 votes -
The politics of going to the bathroom
3 votes -
The struggle to hire and keep doctors in rural areas means US patients go without care
6 votes -
Defend Your Clinics: It’s time for an abortion rights movement that’s not directed from the top-down. Clinic defense is a crucial part of that mass, democratic, and militant movement.
4 votes -
Emotional health in public schools
4 votes -
I told prison guards I have celiac disease. They fed me gluten anyway
21 votes -
Oregon considers changing the way mentally ill people are committed
4 votes -
Not just for soldiers: Civilians with PTSD struggle to find effective therapy
8 votes -
The University of Maryland waited eighteen days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark
14 votes -
Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices?
6 votes -
Highly potent weed has swept the market, raising concerns about health risks
7 votes -
Will Denver vote to decriminalize magic mushrooms?
15 votes -
Amid measles outbreaks, states consider revoking religious vaccine exemptions
14 votes -
The US movement against female genital mutilation is at a crossroads
4 votes -
In the land of hope and grief: An art therapy project in an Alaska Native village helps teens talk about suicide in their community
4 votes -
An afternoon with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Texas Anti-Vaccine Movement
7 votes -
I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month
11 votes -
"Looping" has created an underground market for old Medtronic insulin pumps with a security flaw
10 votes -
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.
5 votes -
When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work
8 votes -
For incarcerated Hepatitis C patients, adequate treatment is hard to come by
7 votes