Nearly Half of All Murdered Women Are Killed by Romantic Partners
A new CDC report suggests that domestic violence is a major cause of death for women.
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Projects
The Platinum Patients
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The Health-Care Cost of Homelessness
Anthony Ruffin’s personal mission to place the most vulnerable people living on the street in housing
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Projects
Trial and Error
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Merla / Shutterstock / Teddy Kelley / Quentin ... 'Forest Bathing': How Microdosing on Nature Can Help With Stress
The practice, long-popular in Japan, is gaining traction in the U.S. as a way of harnessing the health benefits of being outdoors.
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Memphis Fire Department A City's Solution to Too Many 911 Calls
To cut down on the burdensome costs of non-emergency medical calls, Memphis is taking an experimental approach to health care.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters He's a Fighter
John McCain is being urged to persevere based on strength of character, a quintessentially American approach to thinking about health.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer or Not?
Senator John McCain’s glioblastoma diagnosis revives a longstanding debate over the safety of wireless technology.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Tries for an Obamacare Repeal Revival
The president bought some more time for the Republican health-care effort, but he hasn’t changed any minds yet.
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Charles Krupa / AP How Job Loss Can Lead to Drug Use
Several studies suggest the opioid crisis might be at least partly the result of widespread unemployment.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters How Twitter Fuels Anxiety
The anxious can often find a supportive community through tweeting, but the nature of the social media site can exacerbate symptoms.
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Ismail Taxta / Reuters Turning Baker’s Yeast Into a Disease Sensor
With a few tweaks, the fungus behind bread and beer could become a simple, low-cost cholera detector.
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Ian Bogost A Search for the Flavor of a Beloved Childhood Medicine
My quest to identify where amoxicillin’s taste came from—and why it inspires such nostalgia
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How John McCain’s Brain Became 'Fake News'
A polarizing debate about a reversible cause of dementia
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Vivian Rosas / Katie Martin / The Atlantic If My Friend Smokes Sometimes, Should the Cigarettes Have Filters?
An honest question
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters Trump’s Wile E. Coyote Approach to Border Security
Smuggling experts say the president needs to listen to the people who understand the complexities of security and drug policy.
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Cris Toala Olivares / Reuters What's Actually Wrong With the U.S. Health System
A new report shows why American health care performs so poorly compared to its rivals—and suggests the Obamacare replacement proposals aren’t the way to fix it.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why the Senate Health-Care Bill Might Never Get a Final Vote
Two Republican critics of Mitch McConnell’s proposal are vowing to block it from even coming to the floor. One more opponent, and it’s dead.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What's Inside Mitch McConnell's Latest Health-Care Proposal
The revised Senate bill would keep more of Obamacare’s taxes while allowing insurers to wiggle out of its regulations. Will Republicans go for it?
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Growing Cheaper Embryos for IVF Inside the Vagina
A new vaginal incubator is half the price of traditional IVF and could be more acceptable to Catholics. Will it revolutionize access to fertility medicine?
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Alex Brandon / AP How to Know If the Republican Health-Care Bill Is Dead
When at least three GOP senators demand bipartisan talks instead of a one-party approach, Mitch McConnell’s proposal will collapse for good. Until then, it still has a chance.
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James Hamblin / The Atlantic How to Survive Running Across the Grand Canyon
There are so many ways to die.
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Alex Remnick / The Star-Ledger via AP More and More States Are Outlawing Gay-Conversion Therapy
Rhode Island is poised to be the fourth state in 2017 to ban the damaging practice.
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Nacho Doce / Reuters The Case for Testing Zika Vaccines on Pregnant Women
An ethics group stresses the importance of including the disease’s most vulnerable population in clinical trials.
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Chelsea Beck Are Gel Manicures Going to Give Me Skin Cancer?
The procedure hardens nail polish using UV light—but not enough to do serious damage.
