Trump Administration Sharply Cuts Spending on Health Law Enrollment

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Short Answers to Hard Questions about Health Threats from Hurricane Harvey

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F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000

F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first-ever treatment that genetically alters a patient’s own cells to fight cancer, a milestone that is expected to transform treatment in the coming years.

August 31, 2017 at 01:33PM
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Will Smoking Pot Make Me Vomit Forever?

Will Smoking Pot Make Me Vomit Forever?
Cyclic vomiting syndrome is on the rise among adults, and marijuana use may be partially to blame.

August 31, 2017 at 01:33PM
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How Do I Talk to my Five-Year-Old About White Supremacy?

How Do I Talk to my Five-Year-Old About White Supremacy?
We’re supposed to explain the world to our children—but lately that’s been harder than ever.

August 31, 2017 at 05:54AM
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465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability

465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability
A year after calling advisory "false and misleading," maker warns patients to patch.

August 30, 2017 at 11:45PM
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F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000

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New Fathers Are Older Than Ever

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'The Daily Show' Reconciles The Evils Of Football With Loving The Game

'The Daily Show' Reconciles The Evils Of Football With Loving The Game
Despite what he says, senior sports correspondent Roy Wood Jr. is a pretty big football fan. But even he has to accept the truth: football is bad for people's brains. Thankfully, Wood and Trevor Noah came up with some solutions to fix the NFL.

August 30, 2017 at 04:16PM
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The FDA says MDMA is a ‘breakthrough’ drug for PTSD patients

The FDA says MDMA is a ‘breakthrough’ drug for PTSD patients
It's a big step forward for a controversial treatment.

August 30, 2017 at 02:30PM
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Could Your Next Doctor Be Your Dentist?

Could Your Next Doctor Be Your Dentist?
A two-step plan could help address the physician shortage and lack of access to dental care.

August 30, 2017 at 02:11AM
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The Death of a Teenage Quarterback

The Death of a Teenage Quarterback
It isn't supposed to happen here, in Hometown, USA. It isn't supposed to happen anywhere, but children die after playing football more often than you know. And Evan Murray's family wants you to know the story of his final game.

August 29, 2017 at 11:55PM
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Peter Thiel Is Bankrolling An Unapproved Offshore Herpes Vaccine Trial

Peter Thiel Is Bankrolling An Unapproved Offshore Herpes Vaccine Trial
The project is part of a larger libertarian movement to speed up medical innovation by pulling back consumer and test subject protections.

August 29, 2017 at 07:03PM
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F.D.A. Cracks Down on ‘Unscrupulous’ Stem Cell Clinics

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I Doped Like Maria Sharapova And It Was Actually Pretty Great

I Doped Like Maria Sharapova And It Was Actually Pretty Great
Did the drugs actually help her performance? When a friend who had been traveling in Riga jokingly brought me back a box of a Latvian brand of the generic drug meldonium, it seemed like a good way to find out.

August 28, 2017 at 06:51PM
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Deaf Music Fans Are Finally Starting To Be Heard

Deaf Music Fans Are Finally Starting To Be Heard
Deaf music fans want more than viral fame. They want the access — and independence — of the hearing-centric music world.

August 28, 2017 at 01:41PM
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A New Skin Lightening Procedure Is Short on Evidence

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Drug Aimed at Inflammation May Lower Risk of Heart Disease and Cancer

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Is McGregor Safe Fighting Mayweather? Ringside Physicians Say No

Is McGregor Safe Fighting Mayweather? Ringside Physicians Say No
The president of the Association of Ringside Physicians said he was surprised the Nevada athletic commission sanctioned the bout.

August 27, 2017 at 07:39AM
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Trump’s Threats on Health Law Hide an Upside: Gains Made by Some Insurers

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Why Obamacare Didn't Implode

Why Obamacare Didn't Implode
All of the law's empty counties have been filled.

August 26, 2017 at 03:10PM
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Dr. Marshall H. Klaus, Maternity-Ward Reformer, Dies at 90

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Brazil May Face a New Threat, This Time From Biting Midges

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You Need To Stop Chugging Water, And Other Facts

You Need To Stop Chugging Water, And Other Facts
Welcome to What We Learned This Week, ​a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week, chugging water is bad, truckers love public radio and slime is back.

August 25, 2017 at 01:30PM
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Hunting a Killer: Sex, Drugs and the Return of Syphilis

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If You’re Chugging Water to Hydrate, You’re Doing It Wrong

If You’re Chugging Water to Hydrate, You’re Doing It Wrong
Chugging water leads to more peeing, which leads to dehydration.

August 23, 2017 at 09:12PM
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How AIDS Changed Art Forever

How AIDS Changed Art Forever
Three recent exhibitions show that though HIV is no longer a death sentence, the art world is still grappling with its psychological toll.

August 22, 2017 at 10:17PM
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Dying At Home In Pain Doesn't Keep Relatives From Stealing The Pills

Dying At Home In Pain Doesn't Keep Relatives From Stealing The Pills
The opioid crisis is forcing hospices to consider how to control drugs in the home.

August 22, 2017 at 01:43PM
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Engineering the End of Malaria

Engineering the End of Malaria
Intellectual Ventures has put some of the profits from licensing patents into developing breakthrough health-care technologies that nobody else has been able to pursue.

August 22, 2017 at 01:43PM
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$417 Million Awarded in Suit Tying Johnson’s Baby Powder to Cancer

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Hospitals Are Clogged With Patients Struggling With Opioids

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How to Prevent Deadly Infection in Babies? Good Bacteria

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Are Husbands and Doctors Conspiring to Sew New Moms Up Too Tight?

Are Husbands and Doctors Conspiring to Sew New Moms Up Too Tight?
The much-feared extra suture, supposedly used to tighten the vagina after childbirth, has long been the rumored result of handshake deals done between husbands and doctors.

August 21, 2017 at 11:17PM
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Debunking The Supposed Condom Replacement That's Just A Sticker

Debunking The Supposed Condom Replacement That's Just A Sticker
The "JIFTIP" looks like a sticker you place on the tip of the penis... and it's about as good a form of birth control/STI protection as if you actually just took a regular old sticker and slapped it on.

August 21, 2017 at 08:04PM
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Smoking Versus Edibles

Smoking Versus Edibles
What is the lowest-risk route of cannabis administration? (Please don’t come at me with a vape pen.)

August 21, 2017 at 07:15AM
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Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors

Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors
When he was 11 years old, LJ Stroud of St. Augustine, Florida, had a tooth emerge in a place where no tooth belongs: the roof of his mouth. But just days before his corrective procedures were to take place, the surgeons' office called to cancel them.

August 21, 2017 at 01:31AM
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Pregnant, then Ruptured

Pregnant, then Ruptured
I’m instructing sixth-graders when that blue flash of pain rips through me. I stop talking. I freeze, hand on belly, and wait to find out if I’ll vomit.

August 20, 2017 at 11:40PM
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Letter to Price and Verma

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In Tennessee, Promoting Enrollment in Tenuous Health Care Plans

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Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem

Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem
Many images that have been traditionally used to depict the Black Death are, in fact, not images of the plague at all. Now, a group of dedicated historians are trying to correct the record.

August 20, 2017 at 10:34PM
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The Opioid Crackdown Is Making Life Miserable — Even Untenable — For People With Chronic Pain

The Opioid Crackdown Is Making Life Miserable — Even Untenable — For People With Chronic Pain
The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.

August 20, 2017 at 03:44PM
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Pill Cures Peanut Allergy For Four Years In Limited Study

Pill Cures Peanut Allergy For Four Years In Limited Study
Scientists in Australia report that a trial of probiotics mixed with peanuts lasting four years lead to a peanut tolerance.

August 19, 2017 at 08:29PM
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Being A Journalist Is Terrible For Your Mental Health

Being A Journalist Is Terrible For Your Mental Health
"It felt like the parts of my brain that contain motivation, energy, and the ability to arrange ideas had been injected with novocaine."

August 19, 2017 at 06:54PM
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The Appointment Ends. Now the Patient Is Listening.

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At Last, a Big, Successful Trial of Probiotics

At Last, a Big, Successful Trial of Probiotics
A large Indian study of 4,500 newborn babies found that the right microbes can prevent a life-threatening condition called sepsis.

August 18, 2017 at 01:35AM
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7 Men on How They Actually Feel About Balding

7 Men on How They Actually Feel About Balding
To shave or not to shave?

August 17, 2017 at 10:38PM
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Fentanyl linked to thousands of urban overdose deaths

Fentanyl linked to thousands of urban overdose deaths
In two dozen of the nation's largest cities, fentanyl is becoming a major part of the national opioid crisis.

August 17, 2017 at 03:42PM
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How Bad Is it to Drink Tons of Seltzer?

How Bad Is it to Drink Tons of Seltzer?
Because life is too short for tap.

August 17, 2017 at 02:42PM
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How Wearable Tech Is Giving People A Sixth Sense

How Wearable Tech Is Giving People A Sixth Sense
Are health trackers imparting a permanent psycho-awareness of our bodies?

August 17, 2017 at 12:45AM
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The Dangerous Business of Hymen Reconstruction Surgeries

The Dangerous Business of Hymen Reconstruction Surgeries
In Germany and the Netherlands, the majority of women seeking hymenoplasty are young Muslim women. We speak to doctors about the rising demand for the controversial procedure.

August 16, 2017 at 10:30PM
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