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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NICE choses not to recommend esketamine for treatment resistant depression
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Acclaimed scientist gets brain surgery for alcohol addiction
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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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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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I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.
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The Friday effect: Firm lobbying, the timing of drug safety alerts, and drug side effects
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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 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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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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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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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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Parkinson's disease-causing protein hijacks gut-brain axis
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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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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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'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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Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices?
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The US movement against female genital mutilation is at a crossroads
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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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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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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 gut microbiome as a major regulator of the gut-skin axis
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