The Disputed Death of an 8-Year-Old Whose Organs Were Donated
The hospital used a once-controversial but increasingly common donation procedure.
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Elaina Natario / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Therapy for Everybody
In Appalachia, a primary-care clinic offers quick bursts of psychotherapy on the spot.
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Sarah Jung Psychics Who Hear Voices Could Be On to Something
The ways some “healthy voice hearers” cope might be able to help people with psychotic disorders.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Senate Republicans Put Off Health-Care Vote
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bowed to mounting opposition and abandoned a vote planned for this week on legislation to overhaul Obamacare.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Good Health Never Lasts
The Republican health-care plan is especially bad for the elderly—which means it’s especially bad for everyone.
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Vincent West / Reuters Making Babies, No Sex Necessary
One professor claims that future humans will be made from skin cells and prescreened for things like hair color and sex.
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F. A. Murphy / CDC A Clever New Way to Predict Next Year's Flu
A study suggests an unusual strategy to make vaccines more effective.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Planned Parenthood Still Believes It Can Win the Culture Wars
Cecile Richards says the organization will not spin off its abortion services, even though Congress is threatening to cut off a portion of the group’s funding.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A New Penalty for the Uninsured in the GOP Health-Care Bill
Republicans would lock people out of coverage for six months if they go without insurance under a provision added to the Senate proposal on Monday.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters How to Talk to Anti-Vaxers
Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on persuading anti-vaxers, predicting the next outbreak, and working with Trump.
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Brynn Anderson / AP A Doctor's Plan to End Patriarchy
Advocating for access to safe abortions, Willie Parker decided to attack the root of the problem.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters HHS Secretary Defies Trump on Ebola Travel Ban
Trump advocated shutting infected Americans out of the country during the 2014 outbreak. But Tom Price praised Obama’s response and said the U.S. has a moral responsibility to care for its health volunteers abroad.
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C2 Photography HHS Secretary: The Congressional Budget Office Is ‘Not Accurate’
Tom Price questioned the ability of the agency to estimate the number of people who would lose health insurance under Congress’s Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan.
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Dressing Up for the Doctor
When Michele Norris, journalist and founder of the Race Card Project, goes to the doctor’s office, her mother calls her…
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Jason Reed / Reuters 'Of All the Categories of Fake News, Health News Is the Worst'
Misinformation about well-being is particularly rife, and particularly dangerous.
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AP Most People Identify as Huggers, Rarely Hug
On the basic social disconnection that underlies addiction
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Bobby Yip / Reuters To Remember Random Errands, Turn Them Into a Story
A memory trick that plays on the human brain’s innate desire for narrative.
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP How a Chicago Program Cut Violent Arrests in Half
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thinks emotional well-being can help reduce gun deaths.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Church of CrossFit
Gyms and other secular communities are starting to fill spiritual and social needs for many nonreligious people.
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Anthony Fauci on Americans' Overblown Fear of Pandemics
Recalling the Ebola outbreak of 2014, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, lamented…
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Pete Lomchid / Getty Nature Therapy Is a Privilege
Science is learning more about the health benefits of going outside—at a time when access to wild spaces is ever-more unequal.
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Oli Scarff / Getty Testosterone Wars
A seller of dietary supplements is succeeding by promising power to the aggrieved.
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James Hamblin Let Us Stand on Planes, and Other Health Ideas in Progress
Thoughts that will not be featured at the Aspen Ideas Festival
