How Graham-Cassidy Would Affect Women
Regardless of income or childbearing preference, women would feel the impacts of the latest Obamacare-replacement proposal.
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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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Jacquelyn Martin / AP John McCain Saves Obamacare Once Again
The Arizona Republican announced his opposition to the latest GOP repeal plan, all but certainly giving its critics the votes to block it.
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Joe Raedle / Getty When Will the Economy Start Caring About Home-Care Work?
One of the fastest-growing occupations has meager pay and benefits—a problem that might become more urgent as the population continues to age.
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PM Images / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Love in the Time of Individualism
Two new books explore America’s changing romantic landscape.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Doctors: No
Physicians rarely agree on anything as strongly as they do that the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill is harmful.
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Brynn Anderson / AP Providing Abortions in the Deep South
Willie Parker discusses his Christian faith, teen moms, and what’s next for abortion access.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP How Democrats Gave the GOP One More Chance to Repeal Obamacare
Their debt-ceiling deal with President Trump cleared up a busy congressional calendar and may have removed a big hurdle for Republicans facing a September 30 deadline.
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Gene J. Puskar / AP The Future of Detecting Brain Damage in Football
A new technique could revolutionize how a neurodegenerative disease afflicting contact sports is treated.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Two Republicans Who Will Likely Determine Obamacare's Fate
A last-minute repeal vote could come down to Senators John McCain and Lisa Murkowski, who opposed the GOP’s most recent proposal in July and are facing competing pressures from their state’s governors.
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Keith Bedford / Reuters Who Gets Health in Old Age? Rich, White People
Access to insurance isn’t erasing race- and class-based health disparities.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Groundhog Day for Obamacare Repeal
The GOP is still missing the crucial 50th Senate vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. But a looming deadline is providing new momentum, and the legislation has advanced from no-shot to long-shot.
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Matthias Tunger / Getty How Alternate-Nostril Breathing Works
For the anxiety of letting the world down, a grounding technique
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Tom Maniatis / Columbia Zuckerman Institute A New Understanding of Inflammation in the Spine
Research on the mysterious ways that ALS destroys the nervous system highlights the role of the immune system in doing both good and harm.
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Leore Geller How Bacteria Could Protect Tumors From Anticancer Drugs
The success of a treatment might depend on a person’s microbes.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Melinda Gates on Why Foreign Aid Still Matters
A new report from the Gates Foundation shows the devastating effects of a lapse in funding for global health.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP / Gusak ... The Baffling Rise of Goop
How a new-agey website started by an actress became so popular—and what it says about the future of health journalism
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Looming Superfund Nightmare
As unprecedented hurricanes assault coastal U.S. communities, residents and experts fear the storms could unleash contamination the EPA has tried to keep at bay.
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Christopher DeLorenzo When the Mind Wanders
An anatomy of daydreaming
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When In-Person Conversation Is Better Than Texting
Sherry Turkle, the Director of the MIT “Initiative on Technology and Self,” discusses the relationship between talking in real life and cultivating empathy.
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Marc Gutierrez / Getty How to Turn Tap Water Into Bottled Water
A technique to prevent dehydration during a natural disaster, or at other times
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters The Cancer Patient Taking On High Drug Prices
It takes $440,000 of medications a year to keep David Mitchell alive. Now he’s founded a nonprofit to make drugs more affordable.
