Your Doctor Is Instagram Famous. Do Likes Matter in the Exam Room?

Your Doctor Is Instagram Famous. Do Likes Matter in the Exam Room?
How social media is changing relationships with health care providers.

August 1, 2019 at 12:59AM
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Colorectal Cancer Rises Among Younger Adults

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Medicare for All? For More? Here’s How Medicare Works

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Medicare for All? For More? Here’s How Medicare Works.

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Trump Administration Proposes Allowing Drug Imports for Cheaper Prescriptions

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Trump Administration Proposes Allowing Drug Imports for Cheaper Prescriptions

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When Everyday Sounds Drive You Crazy

When Everyday Sounds Drive You Crazy
What it's like to live with misophonia, a hatred of common noises.

July 31, 2019 at 02:02PM
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Democratic Debate Turns Ferocious Over Health Care

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Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe

Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe
The shadowy display mode has leagues of fans claiming it helps reduce eye strain, lengthen battery time and improve sleep. But dark mode isn't quite the screen savior it's made out to be.

July 30, 2019 at 09:26PM
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Olympic Cyclist Kelly Catlin Could Do It All. Until It All Became Too Much

Olympic Cyclist Kelly Catlin Could Do It All. Until It All Became Too Much
In the moments and hours after Kelly's suicide attempt, those who'd received her email tried to make sense of it.

July 30, 2019 at 03:02PM
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Would You Want a Computer to Judge Your Risk of H.I.V. Infection?

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Hospitals Would Have to Reveal Discounted Prices They Give Insurers, Under Trump Rule

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How we stopped counting calories and learned to love Spindrift

How we stopped counting calories and learned to love Spindrift
This popular seltzer has a couple of calories. It says a lot about how we think about health today.

July 30, 2019 at 12:11AM
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How a Medicare Buy-In or Public Option Could Threaten Obamacare

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The Business Of Sleep

The Business Of Sleep
The Western world is currently undergoing an epidemic of poor slumber — fuelled by everything from auto-play streaming services to the rise in millennial anxiety.

July 29, 2019 at 06:51PM
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'A Compelling Power': When Mesmerism Came To America

'A Compelling Power': When Mesmerism Came To America
Some somnambulists were men, but it was the women who seemed to inspire the most attention.

July 29, 2019 at 03:00PM
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The Obscene Cost Of Being A Woman With A Chronic Health Problem

The Obscene Cost Of Being A Woman With A Chronic Health Problem
To date, Edwards said, she has seen roughly 30 doctors for medical complications across California, Arizona and Louisiana. "Most of them just shrugged their shoulders. One blatantly called me a liar," she said.

July 29, 2019 at 02:34AM
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The Intimate Relationship Between Organ Donor Recipients And Donor Families

The Intimate Relationship Between Organ Donor Recipients And Donor Families
"I thought of my donor as a guardian angel type of figure," says Katy Portell.

July 28, 2019 at 04:11PM
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Dialysis Firm Cancels $524,600.17 Medical Bill After Journalists Investigate

Dialysis Firm Cancels $524,600.17 Medical Bill After Journalists Investigate
Fresenius, one of the two largest dialysis providers in the U.S., has agreed to waive a $524,600.17 bill for a man who received 14 weeks of dialysis at a clinic in Montana.

July 28, 2019 at 01:37AM
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A Doctor Shortage Is Looming, and a Clinton-Era Policy Is Partly to Blame

A Doctor Shortage Is Looming, and a Clinton-Era Policy Is Partly to Blame
Antiquated funding restrictions for medical apprenticeships could worsen an already devastating burnout crisis.

July 27, 2019 at 09:18PM
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Americans Are Not Getting The Message About Exercising More And Sitting Less

Americans Are Not Getting The Message About Exercising More And Sitting Less
Doctors and public health officials have been urging Americans to get more active and try to exercise at least 150 minutes per week at a moderate level, or 75 minutes weekly at a vigorous level.

July 27, 2019 at 06:55PM
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The FDA Knows E-Cigarettes Could Save Millions Of Lives But Are Worried About Promoting Them To Kids

The FDA Knows E-Cigarettes Could Save Millions Of Lives But Are Worried About Promoting Them To Kids
Tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable death in the United States — but the public policy challenges

July 27, 2019 at 03:11PM
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Researchers Discover A Surprising Visual Trick For Falling Asleep Faster

Researchers Discover A Surprising Visual Trick For Falling Asleep Faster
There may be a surprisingly simple solution for some people who have trouble going to sleep: giving them a chance to look at their own brains as they lay in bed.

July 26, 2019 at 06:33PM
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Congo Draws Up a New Battle Plan Against Ebola Amid Power Struggle

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Ranking Kinds Of Water By How Healthy They Are

Ranking Kinds Of Water By How Healthy They Are
Sparkling? Mineral? Raw? Bath? Which is the best method of hydration, and which will send me to the hospital?

July 26, 2019 at 04:35PM
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Neil Armstrong Died After Heart Surgery. That May Have Been Avoided.

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What If Avoiding the Sun Is Bad for You?

What If Avoiding the Sun Is Bad for You?
It was around 15 years ago that Dr. Matt Zirwas, an Ohio-based dermatologist, first noticed something curious about the people he was treating at his clinic.

July 25, 2019 at 09:49PM
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Juul Targeted Schools, Camps and Youth Programs, House Panel Claims

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You Don't Have To Be The Best At Anything To Have A Great Life

You Don't Have To Be The Best At Anything To Have A Great Life
There is a perception that in order to be acceptable we have to be exceptional.

July 25, 2019 at 06:41PM
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Doctors in Debt: These Physicians Gladly Struck a Deal With California

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The Keto Moment

The Keto Moment
The extreme diet phenomenon may offer clues on how nutrition can treat disease.

July 25, 2019 at 05:32PM
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I Learned How to Do an Abortion on a Papaya

I Learned How to Do an Abortion on a Papaya
Papaya workshops have become a popular way to demystify and destigmatize abortion.

July 25, 2019 at 05:32PM
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How Scientists Built A 'Living Drug' To Beat Cancer

How Scientists Built A 'Living Drug' To Beat Cancer
In 2010, Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a cancer of certain cells in the immune system.

July 25, 2019 at 04:20PM
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The Crisis Lurking in Californians' Taps: How 1,000 Water Systems May Be At Risk

The Crisis Lurking in Californians' Taps: How 1,000 Water Systems May Be At Risk
The troubled districts, which operate in mostly poor areas on thin budgets, receive little oversight and face a host of problems.

July 25, 2019 at 02:40AM
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Breast Implants Linked to Rare Cancer Are Recalled Worldwide

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What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes An Identity?

What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes An Identity?
While Lyme disease is a specific medical condition — one that may manifest more severely or less, be treated more easily or less — chronic Lyme is something else altogether.

July 24, 2019 at 03:29PM
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Need a Mental Health Day? Some States Give Students the Option

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Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You

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Americans Reported Hearing Torturous Sounds In Cuba—and Now Their Brains Seem Changed

Americans Reported Hearing Torturous Sounds In Cuba—and Now Their Brains Seem Changed
People with "Havana syndrome" have differences in their brains compared to healthy people.

July 23, 2019 at 05:51PM
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Someday, an Arm Implant May Prevent H.I.V. Infection

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These Horrible Portion-Control Plates Are a Symptom of a Bigger Problem

These Horrible Portion-Control Plates Are a Symptom of a Bigger Problem
Fatphobia is all the rage in dinnerware and it's making us hate ourselves.

July 23, 2019 at 04:27PM
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Age Discrimination Is Hard to Prove, Even Harder to Fix

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The American Diet Is Having An Unhealthy Love Affair With Protein

The American Diet Is Having An Unhealthy Love Affair With Protein
This obsession with protein is not only unnecessary. It's unhealthy, because it sets consumers and citizens up for confusion.

July 22, 2019 at 04:09PM
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How Crop Farming Could Breed Deadly Superbugs

How Crop Farming Could Breed Deadly Superbugs
The use of agricultural fungicides may be planting the seeds for a new global health threat.

July 22, 2019 at 02:57PM
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How Our Bodies Coddle Cancer

How Our Bodies Coddle Cancer
Cancer researchers have long noticed that doses of chemo drugs that reliably kill cancer cells in laboratory cultures tend to be strikingly less effective in actual patients.

July 22, 2019 at 01:00AM
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3,271 Pill Bottles, a Town of 2,831: Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic

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How 1.5 Billion Painkillers Flooded New Jersey And Sparked An Epidemic That's Killed Nearly 20,000 People

How 1.5 Billion Painkillers Flooded New Jersey And Sparked An Epidemic That's Killed Nearly 20,000 People
Today, the drug death rate in New Jersey is 67% higher than the nation overall.

July 19, 2019 at 08:15PM
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Why Do We Get Sick At High Altitudes?

Why Do We Get Sick At High Altitudes?
Forcing your body to acclimate to high altitudes too quickly has serious health consequences — why?

July 19, 2019 at 06:30PM
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Ranking 'Fake' Cheeses By How (Un)healthy They Are

Ranking 'Fake' Cheeses By How (Un)healthy They Are
Vegan cheese? Kraft Singles? Cheez Whiz? Which weird, yellow goo is least likely to turn my insides into weird, yellow goo?

July 19, 2019 at 04:17PM
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Why The Human Back Is An Evolutionary Disaster

Why The Human Back Is An Evolutionary Disaster
Mother nature really screwed up this one.

July 18, 2019 at 08:30PM
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