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
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In a Colombian family’s dementia, a journey through race and history
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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.
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Why physicians are prescribing time in nature
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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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The night the lights went out
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The human antivenom project
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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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Rejection kills: The brain makes no distinction between a broken bone and an aching heart. That’s why social exclusion needs a health warning
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Neuroscience now points to rejection causing physical pain: how do we treat and address social exclusion?
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When a child's mental health diagnosis comes too late to help
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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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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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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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How doctors and the church conspired to stop an 11-year-old girl from having an abortion after rape
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The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
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The metabolic adaptation manual: Problems, solutions, and life after weight loss
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Doctors face two enemies in fight against Ebola
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Her time: Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at sixty-five. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.
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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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'Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men
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The fake sex doctor who conned the media into publicizing his bizarre research on suicide, butt-fisting, and bestiality
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Not another boring creatine guide: Answers to FAQs and lesser-known benefits
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Big pharma is partnering with Instagram influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices
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This business helped transform Miami into a national plastic surgery destination. Eight women died.
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I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped
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Is sunscreen the new margarine?
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The weight I carry - What it’s like to be too big in America
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Why exercise alone won’t save us
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The other side of paradise: How I left a Buddhist retreat in handcuffs
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Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its baby powder
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Scientists think Alabama's sewage problem has caused a tropical parasite. The state has done little about it.
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Bowel movement: The push to change the way you poo
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Vitamin D and depression: Where is all the sunshine?
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The best way to save people from suicide
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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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CBD is everywhere. But is it a scam? The super-popular cannabis compound, explained
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Why We Sleep - Latest book on sleep science and the impacts on our health
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Association of frequency of organic food consumption with cancer risk - Findings from the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort study
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The sunburnt country
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Is chronic anxiety a learning disorder?
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Why you should be skeptical of the latest nutrition headlines
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The comforting fictions of dementia care
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Don't shoot, I'm disabled
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Everything you know about obesity is wrong
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‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: The rise of the penis extension
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The future abortionists of America
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The roots of cooking for the sick and why hospital food is so bad
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Fitbit's 150 billion hours of heart data reveal secrets about health
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