Will the World's Most Worrying Flu Virus Go Pandemic?
There’s good news and bad news.
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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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Knaul et al / The Lancet Where the Opioids Go
While the United States faces an epidemic of narcotic addiction, most of the world dies in pain.
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Evan Vucci / AP Donald Trump's Obamacare Whiplash
Does the president want Congress to strike a bipartisan deal on health care? As with so many other issues, it depends on the hour.
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Todd Korol / Reuters Are the Health Plans Trump Promoted Any Good?
The president’s executive order recommended expanding the use of bare-bones plans. But they could lead to high bills.
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Caitlin O'Hara / Reuters How the Blowup of Obamacare Affects the People on It
Last week, the president ended an important subsidy insurers were relying on to set their prices. What now?
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Susan Walsh / AP A Bipartisan Obamacare Breakthrough
A pair of key senators has reached a deal to stabilize the law, but Republican leaders in Congress—not to mention President Trump—could still sink its prospects.
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Ruth Black / Radu Bercan / Shutterstock / ... Google Maps' Failed Attempt to Get People to Lose Weight
Not everyone wants to be reminded of calories when trying to get directions.
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Sunday Alamba / AP The Threat of Polio in the Badlands of Boko Haram
The last vestiges of the devastating virus persist where terrorists stop vaccines from reaching babies and children.
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Heng Sinith / AP Gender-Fluid Scouts of America
What is the common thread between objections to gay Boy Scouts and female Boy Scouts?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump's Assault on Obamacare Could Revive a Deal in Congress
A pair of lawmakers are nearing a bipartisan agreement on health care, but it’s not the one the president wants.
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L. SOUCI / BSIP / Getty A New Hope for Male Fertility After Cancer Treatment
An experimental procedure that regenerates sperm could ensure that men are able to have kids following chemotherapy.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Stunning Blow to Obamacare
In the biggest attack on the health-care law yet, the administration will end payments that insurers use to help poor customers.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Trump's Executive Order Might Raise Costs for the Sick
The measure might make insurance cheaper for the healthy and pricier for those with serious health conditions, experts say
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Andreas Rentz / Getty / Katie Martin / ... The Audacity of Blaming 'Sex Addiction'
When others might go to prison, powerful people go to rehab.
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Thierry Roge / Reuters The Movement to Bury Pets Alongside People
“Whole-family cemeteries” make the case that you should be allowed to rest with your dog or cat.
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Simon Marcus Taplin / Getty / Katie Martin ... Against the Travel Neck Pillow
This useless accessory has one job—which it fails at.
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Turn on / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / ... Doctors Get Their Own Second Opinions
A new tool helps primary-care physicians draw on medical expertise from all over the world.
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Daniel Reich / National Institute of Neurological Disorders ... Scientists Somehow Just Discovered a New System of Vessels in Our Brains
It is unclear what they do—but they likely play a central role in aging and disease.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters What Science Says About 'Thoughts and Prayers'
The research is mixed.
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Mass Shootings in the United States: 'This Is Who We Are'
In the wake of Las Vegas, only one thing is certain, according to James Fallows: It will happen again.
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rolfo / Getty Do Cultural Differences Change What Depression Feels Like?
The contrasting ways Chinese people and Westerners express symptoms could point to distinct experiences of the same disorder.
