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Hold Your Nose for the Durian Fruit

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Added Sugars Conundrum: Silly Or Sensible?

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Immunotherapy for Migraines: Attack of the Antibodies

Genetically Modified People: Gene Editing Arrives in the Clinic

Top 10 Pro-GMO (Or Anti Anti-GMO) Memes on the Internet

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DNA Testing: Can Telomeres Tell You About Aging and Disease Risk?

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Incentives from Medicare?

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Data Manipulation Scandal Rocks the World’s Most Expensive Drug

No, You Don't Break Gilead's Patent for HIV Drugs

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Bernie Sanders, Don't Call Scientists in Pharmaceutical Industry 'Crooks'

Need General Surgery? Ignore The Surgeon General

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Monsanto and Mallinckrodt – Corporate America’s answer to liability

Tyranny of the Minority

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How Big Pharma Uses Logically Impossible Patents to Block Innovation

Dermatology 'Management Firms' Have No Skin in the Game

Your Cheatin' Heart

Sen. Portman Presumes to Know How Many Days of Pain Relief All 328 Million Americans Need

Florida Officials Successfully Withheld Pain Meds from Surgical Patients. Aren't They Special?

Prescribers and Policymakers Must Both Get Better at Harm Reduction

For Hospitalized Patients, It's Location, Location, Location

JUUL Blamed for Collapsed Lung

Cleaner Air: 60 Years of Progress

Fatal Officer-Involved Shootings: Seeing Beyond Benchmarks

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To Err is Human: Lessons from Malpractice Suits

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Nothing Grimes Said About Eyeballs or Depression Makes Any Sense

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Supplements for Brain Health Show No Benefit

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ACSH in the Media: Oh, the Places We Go!

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