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Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine

First Opinion

Beyond aggravation: Constipation is an American epidemic

By Haider Warraich

In the Lab

Silicon Valley’s ambitious new bet: Brain ‘modems’ that restore sight, hearing, and speech

By Charles Piller

Hospitals

Cleveland Clinic reverses course, moves fundraiser from Mar-a-Lago

Health EpiPen maker to settle on claims it overcharged taxpayers, agrees to have pricing practices reviewed
Politics As the health care debate rages on, one set of voices is often missing — women’s
Medical Mystery This 6-year-old suddenly had trouble reading. Why was she going blind?
Hospitals A new survey says doctors are warming up to single-payer health care
In the Lab Q&A: What if we could take control of our changing microbiomes?

A veteran biopharma executive tries to fund his own product — and sees firsthand how hard it is
Lawmakers push drug makers to explain soaring prices for MS drugs
Aerie’s drug manufacturing risk reliever; September biotech events on tap

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Health

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

By Eric Boodman

Special Report

A doctor’s murder over an opioid prescription leaves an Indiana city with no easy answers

By Megan Thielking

Heavyweights

The creator of the pig-human chimera keeps proving other scientists wrong

By Usha Lee McFarling

Health

Families bear the burden of this disease in silence. Pope Francis made us into a community

By Mona Gable

Health

Are people really falling ill from touching fentanyl? In most cases, scientists say no

Politics

Inside the overlooked battle between drug makers and insurers over chemotherapy

By Rebecca Robbins

Health White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don’t like what they find
First Opinion Beyond aggravation: Constipation is an American epidemic
State of (Trump's) Mind Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
In the Lab Silicon Valley’s ambitious new bet: Brain ‘modems’ that restore sight, hearing, and speech
Exclusive Democrats in Congress to explore creating an expert panel on Trump’s mental health

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Health

WATCH: See how a superbug is created

By Hyacinth Empinado

Hospitals

A state-by-state breakdown of the striking gender gap in doctors’ pay

Video

WATCH: The man with the most famous brain in science

By Jeffery DelViscio

In the Lab

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

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