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The latest developments affecting patients and practitioners

Business

CVS tightens restrictions on opioid prescriptions in bid to stanch epidemic

By Andrew Joseph

Off the Charts

My medical school lesson was tinged with racism. Did that affect how I treated a sickle cell patient years later?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Health

Mobile dialysis could save lives in a disaster. But is there a cost to safety?

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Special Report

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

By Andrew Joseph

Politics

New GOP health care proposal would restrict abortion coverage as early as next year

By Erin Mershon

Health

The big question: Will cancer immune therapy work for me?

By Associated Press

Health

Early medical photos, long hidden, now destined for the high bidders

By Bob Tedeschi

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Politics

In Congress, a doctor becomes a cancer patient — and preaches candor

By Erin Mershon

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Hospitals

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

By Usha Lee McFarling

Health

As care shifts from hospital to home, guarding against infection falls to families

By Melissa Bailey — Kaiser Health News

Health

A study, with some limitations, sees link between youth football and emotional issues in adulthood

By Bob Tedeschi

Health

Educational event or swag-fest? Addiction treatment companies chase business with flashy giveaways

By David Armstrong — STAT and Evan Allen — Boston Globe

Health

11 percent of the world’s population is undernourished, says new U.N. report

By Megan Thielking

Health

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

By Sharon Begley

Hospitals

VA hospitals nationwide flooded with whistleblower complaints

By Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Health

‘Mystery after mystery’: Potent ‘health attacks’ on U.S. diplomats in Cuba baffle experts

By Associated Press

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

Health

6 things that happen at TV hospitals that don’t happen in real life

Health

Selena Gomez undergoes kidney transplant due to lupus

By Associated Press

Business

Investors are funding all kinds of gambits to get you to take your pills. It’s not that easy

By Rebecca Robbins

Medical Mystery

Why did five patients in the same hospital come down with a rare blood infection?

By Allison Bond

Health

End-of-life decisions can be difficult. This doctor thinks ‘nudges’ can help

By Bob Tedeschi

In the Lab

The race for a Zika vaccine slows, a setback for efforts to head off future outbreaks

By Helen Branswell

Health

Study shows miscarriage risk may have increased after flu shots, puzzling researchers

By Helen Branswell

Health

Cancer deaths are down — but new cases are on the rise, report says

By Megan Thielking

Health

Magnetic pulses into the brain? They’re actually an established treatment for depression

By Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

Health

Age matters when it comes to screening for cervical cancer

By Associated Press

Health

Menopause hormones don’t shorten lives, long follow-up says

By Associated Press

Health

Former CDC director Tom Frieden to launch new global health initiative

By Helen Branswell

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