Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts
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How big pharma was captured by the one percent
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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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The latest study on trigger warnings finally convinced me they’re not worth it
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The case for legal magic mushrooms
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Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows
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Twenty-two states considered eliminating the ‘tampon tax’ this year. Here’s what happened
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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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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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US President Donald Trump signs executive order compelling disclosure of prices in health care
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Shops full of vitamins, miracle pills 'trashing pharmacists' reputation'
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She’s 103 and just ran the 100-meter dash. Her life advice? ‘Look for magic moments’
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Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak cases have doubled in just two months crossing the 2,000-mark
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Our fury over abortion was dismissed for decades as hysterical
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The politics of going to the bathroom
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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
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Don’t visit your doctor in the afternoon - everyone suffers decision fatigue, even physicians
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Younger longer - With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever
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“I refuse to have a terrible death”: The rise of the death wellness movement
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How a wooden bench in Zimbabwe is starting a revolution in mental health
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An afternoon with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Texas Anti-Vaccine Movement
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The empty promise of suicide prevention: Many of the problems that lead people to kill themselves cannot be fixed with a little extra serotonin
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"Looping" has created an underground market for old Medtronic insulin pumps with a security flaw
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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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When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work
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The data all guilt-ridden parents need: What science tells us about breast-feeding, sleep training and all the agonizing decisions of parenthood
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Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think
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Laziness does not exist
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The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
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Why lifting weights can be so potent for aging well
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The fertility doctor’s secret children - Donald Cline used his own sperm to inseminate over fifty of his patients without their knowledge
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Vaping is Big Tobacco’s bait and switch
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The latest diet trend is not dieting
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Dollars on the margins - $15/hr minimum wage as a public health measure
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Trump Administration blocks US funds for Planned Parenthood and others over abortion referrals
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When the cure is worse than the disease
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Why do South Asians have such high rates of heart disease?
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Nearly 1,000 Madagascar children dead of measles since October
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Unvaccinated teens are fact-checking their parents — and trying to get shots on their own
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The weight I carry - What it’s like to be too big in America
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The other side of paradise: How I left a Buddhist retreat in handcuffs
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Americans are dangerously sleep deprived
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A startup company says it will give people free genome reports if they’re willing to answer detailed questions about their health, drinking habits, and more
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DeepMind’s move to transfer health unit to Google stirs data fears
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Chronic fatigue syndrome - The 'missing people' enigma
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The problem with being perfect
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Losing Laura - Laura Levis died from an asthma attack just outside a Boston-area ER, after calling 911 from outside its locked doors. Her husband has been piecing together how it happened.
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Seventeen million Australians to be automatically enrolled in My Health record
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‘I’m Dr. Cohen’: The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
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76% of participants receiving MDMA-assisted psychotherapy did not meet PTSD diagnostic criteria at the twelve-month follow-up, results published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology
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