The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations
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The math for Elizabeth Warren’s US health-care plan adds up if you accept its ludicrous premise
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Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition
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Scientist who discredited meat guidelines didn’t report past food industry ties
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Health insurance that doesn’t cover the bills has flooded the market under Trump
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Our food is killing too many of us: Improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care
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Human hearts evolved for endurance — and they need it to stay healthy
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Is a meat-free diet really as healthy as vegetarians claim?
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The US health-care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200
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Vitamin E acetate found in marijuana vaping products linked to deadly lung illnesses, tests show
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Inside the drug industry’s plan to defeat the DEA
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University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes
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Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under US settlement proposal
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Denmark to ban all PFAS in paper and board food packaging
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Biohackers are pirating a cheap version of a million-dollar gene therapy
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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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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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Practical ways to improve your confidence (and why you should)
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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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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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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
6 votes