Tuesday, September 19, 2017

While Premiums Soar Under Obamacare, Costs of Employer-Based Plans Are Stable


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What A Doctor Calls A Condition Can Affect How We Decide To Treat It


What A Doctor Calls A Condition Can Affect How We Decide To Treat It
A study examining how parents react to a diagnosis of "pink eye" versus "eye infection"

September 19, 2017 at 03:56PM
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Inside a massive, successful effort to stop prescribing so many opioids


Inside a massive, successful effort to stop prescribing so many opioids
One medical group has figured out a way to sidestep the dangerously addictive drugs.

September 18, 2017 at 08:55PM
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Is there a single food that you can survive on forever?


Is there a single food that you can survive on forever?
Potatoes are close, but not close enough.

September 18, 2017 at 08:12PM
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What Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice gets wrong about mental illness


What Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice gets wrong about mental illness
This action game tries to show what psychosis is like but ends up invalidating real experiences

September 18, 2017 at 06:35PM
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Bill and Melinda Gates Grade the World’s Health


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There Is Now Hope for Thousands of Women Who Were Told They Hit an IVF Dead End


There Is Now Hope for Thousands of Women Who Were Told They Hit an IVF Dead End
For decades, "abnormal" embryos were thrown away. Then some pioneering doctors — and patients — decided to use them anyway.

September 18, 2017 at 01:39PM
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