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Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine

In the Lab

This team is on the verge of creating a beating Band-Aid for the heart. Just don’t call it goopy

By Ike Swetlitz

State of (Trump's) Mind

Why President Trump recoils from denouncing his ‘alt-right’ supporters

By Sharon Begley

In the Lab

A mysterious disease has plagued this family for generations. They may be on the verge of answers

By Karen Weintraub

Politics Trump quietly signs new FDA user fee agreement into law
Boddities What would happen to your eyes if you looked at the solar eclipse?
Business A veteran biopharma executive tries to fund his own product — and sees firsthand how hard it is
Health Vietnam battles dengue outbreaks with 42 percent more cases
Morning Rounds How well did you keep up with the week’s health news? Take our quiz

Biotech recruiter’s advice to women: You don’t have to be perfect
‘Beyond amyloid’: A look at what’s next in Alzheimer’s research
Lawmakers push drug makers to explain soaring prices for MS drugs

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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
State of (Trump's) Mind Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
Boddities What would happen to your eyes if you looked at the solar eclipse?
Health In one night, she lost two sons to opioids. She’s on a mission to spare others that unfathomable pain
In the Lab ‘Beyond amyloid’: A look at what’s next in Alzheimer’s research

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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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