Separating Kids From Their Families Can Permanently Damage Their Brains
A pediatrician explains how the trauma of family separation can change biology.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The 3 Reasons the U.S. Health-Care System Is the Worst
The head of the Commonwealth Fund, which compares the health systems of developed nations, pinpoints why America’s is so expensive and inefficient.
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Richard Vogel / AP The New Model for a Health-First Approach to Legalizing Weed
Canada’s marijuana legalization offers lessons for the rest of the world.
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Axel Bueckert / Shutterstock A Landmark Study on the Origins of Alcoholism
By studying rats in a smarter way, scientists are finally learning something useful about why some drinkers become addicted and others don’t.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters Poor Americans Really Are in Despair
The wealth gap is also a happiness gap.
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Maciek Jasik When Children Say They’re Trans
Hormones? Surgery? The choices are fraught—and there are no easy answers.
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Jonno Rattman The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters When Police Officers Mistake Autism for Suspicious Behavior
Law enforcement’s encounters with people on the spectrum often go wrong. Some police departments are trying to change that.
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Gerald Herbert / AP What to Eat in the Texas Suburbs
No, not Austin.
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Jared Soares Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters Climate Change Is Going to Make Scott Pruitt Need So Much Moisturizer
The EPA administrator’s apparent taste for fancy lotion will become more expensive if his agency continues to undermine efforts to address the planet's warming.
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Ted S. Warren / AP When Will People Get Better at Talking About Suicide?
As suicide rates rise, and stigma recedes, many discussions and portrayals are still clumsy or hurtful.
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Steven Clevenger / Getty More Americans Are Dying From Suicide
A new report finds that rates have risen in almost every state since 1999.
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Tibrina Hobson / Getty Will Probiotics Ever Live Up to the Hype?
Changing your microbiome takes more than just swallowing a pill full of bacteria.
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Heidi de Marco / Kaiser Health News Rich Buyers Are Pushing Rural Hospitals to a Controversial Practice
Some struggling small-town hospitals have embraced a legally murky approach to staying afloat.
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Delcia Lopez / Reuters ‘More Than a Gag Rule’
The head of a family-planning organization on how Trump’s change to a federal birth-control program will affect women
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Evan Vucci / AP The Disingenuousness of ‘Right to Try’
The new law has a catchy name, but it will only make it more difficult to know if medication is effective or safe.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Another Shocking Opioid Statistic
Another study shows the epidemic is outpacing the resources devoted to it
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Andy Kropa / AP Ambien Doesn’t Cause Racism
Roseanne Barr suggested that the drug prompted her to tweet racist remarks, but is that possible?
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AFP Contributor / Getty Why Egypt Is at the Forefront of Hepatitis C Treatment
Despite the availability of revolutionary new drugs, countries with more resources haven’t made as much progress against the disease.
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Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters A Surprising Reason to Worry About Low Birth Rates
They’re linked to an increase in populist sentiments.
