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‘Every time it’s a battle’: In excruciating pain, sickle cell patients are shunted aside

By Sharon Begley

Pharmalot

In a sign of tougher FDA enforcement, Aegerion pays hefty fine for illegal marketing

By Ed Silverman

Morning Rounds

How well did you keep up with the week’s health news? Take our quiz

By Megan Thielking

In the Lab To advance medicine’s future, the NIH tries to win the trust of communities mistreated in the past
First Opinion Military medics and corpsmen could help fill the shortage of primary care providers
Hospitals Another health care deadline looms: Payments to safety net hospitals due to expire next week
Business CVS tightens restrictions on opioid prescriptions in bid to stanch epidemic
Hospitals A $200 million gift promotes alternative therapies at a California medical school — and critics recoil

House committee looking for answers from Merck on its June cyberattack
Zapping the brain for stroke rehab: Pivotal clinical trial begins
Just months after expanding, biotech incubator LabCentral growing again

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Special Report

As a scientist, he studied trauma victims. Then he became one

By Andrew Joseph

First Opinion

I told my emergency medicine team to ‘move on’ after a horrific patient death. That was a mistake

By Jay Baruch

Heavyweights

Did he really just tweet that? Dr. Vinay Prasad takes on Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and his own colleagues — with glee

By Meghana Keshavan

Hospitals

A $200 million gift promotes alternative therapies at a California medical school — and critics recoil

By Usha Lee McFarling

A STAT Investigation

IBM pitched its Watson supercomputer as a revolution in cancer care. It’s nowhere close

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Health

White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don’t like what they find

By Eric Boodman

In the Lab To advance medicine’s future, the NIH tries to win the trust of communities mistreated in the past
Special Report One man’s desperate quest for a brutal surgery
Special Report As a scientist, he studied trauma victims. Then he became one
First Opinion Most people with opioid addictions don’t get the right treatment: medication-assisted therapy
Hospitals A $200 million gift promotes alternative therapies at a California medical school — and critics recoil

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In the Lab

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By Fan Bu and Melody Cao

In the Lab

Inside a DEA drug lab, a race to identify dangerous new opioids

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By Jeffery DelViscio and Dominic Smith

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