US Federal Communications Commission proposes designating 988 as national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number ~health.mental Article 600 words 19 votes
Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too. medicine Article 1476 words 9 votes
The US Internal Revenue Service sent a letter to 3.9 million people. It saved some of their lives. Article 982 words 6 votes
A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare healthcare Article 7213 words, published Nov 8 2019 4 votes
US Food and Drug Administration bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc Article 3536 words 7 votes
Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up healthcare Article 461 words 14 votes
The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations Article 1359 words 10 votes
The math for Elizabeth Warren’s US health-care plan adds up if you accept its ludicrous premise healthcare Article 870 words 10 votes
US Federal nutrition research is underfunded, even as the costs of diet-related diseases are skyrocketing. Does Washington hold the key to solving the obesity crisis? Article 125 words, published Nov 4 2019 9 votes
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and states update number of cases of lung injury associated with e-cigarette/vaping use - now 1479 cases, thirty-three deaths Article 438 words 8 votes
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and states update number of cases of lung injury associated with e-cigarette use, or vaping - now 805 cases, twelve deaths Link 9 votes
Health insurance that doesn’t cover the bills has flooded the market under Trump healthcare Article 16 votes
Our food is killing too many of us: Improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care diet Article 908 words, published Aug 26 2019 11 votes
Unhappy meals - How 'food science' made us unhealthy diet Article 10 200 words, published Jan 28 2007 10 votes
The US health-care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200 healthcare Article 2181 words 8 votes
The US Food and Drug Administration is finalizing a plan to clear the market of all unauthorized flavored e-cigarette products to help combat youth usage Article 948 words 8 votes
University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes healthcare Article 3035 words 14 votes
Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under US settlement proposal medicine Article 1022 words 11 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 medicine Article 8361 words 9 votes
Patient’s death could be first in the US linked to e-cigarette use, officials say Article 170 words 7 votes
How big pharma was captured by the one percent healthcare medicine Article 3231 words, published Jun 28 2018 4 votes
Kids and adults with autism flying easier in Pittsburgh, with airport's help Article 668 words 8 votes
"I don't feel safe anywhere": People express a new kind of anxiety living in America after El Paso and Dayton mass shootings ~health.mental Article 651 words 18 votes
Rural hospitals get a boost with the help of a partnership with Banner Health healthcare Article 328 words 2 votes
It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand. 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? healthcare medicine Article 4724 words 8 votes
'I lost everything': The obscene cost of being a woman with a chronic health problem healthcare Article 2238 words, published Jul 26 2019 7 votes
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon, despite what conspiracy theorists say Article 1547 words 10 votes
Dialysis firm cancels $524,600.17 medical bill after journalists investigate healthcare Article 670 words 10 votes
A US doctor shortage is looming, and a Bill Clinton-era policy is partly to blame healthcare Article 1015 words 6 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 medicine Link 3 votes
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 mental health Article 900 words 24 votes
Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows medicine Article 3119 words 13 votes
Twenty-two states considered eliminating the ‘tampon tax’ this year. Here’s what happened Article 1420 words, published Jul 12 2019 9 votes
Why economic equality won’t fix mental health care mental health Article 1537 words, published Feb 16 2014 5 votes
Med students are doing vaginal exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients nsfw healthcare medicine Article 2407 words 17 votes