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This nonprofit health system cuts off US patients with medical debt healthcare Article 1881 words 14 votes
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Sacklers raise their offer to settle opioid lawsuits by more than $1 billion medicine Article 559 words 7 votes
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The NYT's partisan tale about COVID and the unvaccinated is rife with sloppy data analysis Article 1602 words 2 votes
US FDA clears Pfizer vaccine, and millions of doses will be shipped right away Article 2763 words 17 votes
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry has criticized the Financial Times and The New York Times after they reported that Russia’s coronavirus death toll could be much higher than government officials are saying Article 649 words 9 votes
As coronavirus overruns Russia, doctors are dying on the front lines healthcare Article 566 words 6 votes
In race for a coronavirus vaccine, an Oxford group leaps ahead: As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys medicine Article 6 votes