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The latest developments affecting patients and practitioners

Marijuana plant

Health

Pregnant women with severe nausea and vomiting are more likely to use marijuana, study suggests

By Megan Thielking

Dr. H. Gilbert Welch

Exclusive

Prominent health policy researcher plagiarized colleagues’ work, Dartmouth investigation finds

By Alison McCook — Retraction Watch

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CAR-T Conference

Health

How to pay for CAR-T: A conversation with health policy expert Peter Bach

By Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, and Rebecca Robbins

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Health

NYU says it will cover tuition for all its medical students — both now and in the future

By Orly Nadell Farber

Ebola

Health

Ebola outbreak shaping up as most dangerous test of world’s ability to respond since global crisis

By Helen Branswell

ACT UP 1989

Health

As Alzheimer’s drug developers give up on today’s patients, where is the outrage?

By Sharon Begley

Health

Archived: A live chat discussing the challenges and innovations in college mental health care

By STAT

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Health

Medical students are skipping class in droves — and making lectures increasingly obsolete

By Orly Nadell Farber

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In the Lab

Opening the ‘black box,’ Google DeepMind AI system diagnoses eye diseases and shows its work

Hospitals

Stanford offers a glimpse into the future of elite children’s hospitals

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

Woman holding phone

Health

FDA clears controversial fertility app to prevent pregnancy

By Kate Sheridan

Empty pipeline

Pharma

That pathetic Alzheimer’s pipeline? It’s even worse than you think

By Sharon Begley

A photo of Hydrocodone Acetaminophen.

Health

Clinicians were told their patient had died of an overdose. Then opioid prescribing dropped

By Andrew Joseph

Health

Join our live chat on Aug. 14: the challenges and innovations in college mental health care

By STAT

Labor monitoring

Health

Inducing labor at 39 weeks is safe and linked to lower risk of C-section, study finds

By Megan Thielking

Congo Ebola

Health

Ebola vaccinations begin in Congo’s latest deadly outbreak

By Associated Press

Puerto Rico Battles Zika Virus

Health

1 in 7 babies exposed to Zika in the womb have health problems, CDC reports

By Andrew Joseph

An illustration of a human head created out of bacteria.

Health

As microbiome testing firms proliferate, so do questions about their claims

By Leah Shaffer

Hey, Charlie App

Health

Can a phone app’s warnings to avoid risky friends and places prevent opioid addiction relapses?

By Orly Nadell Farber

Kiran Shelat

Health

Patients who accepted infected kidneys cured of hepatitis C

By Associated Press

A woman undergoing a cardiological examination.

Health

Women survive a heart attack more often when their doctor is female, study finds

By Orly Nadell Farber

Special Report

An Appalachian odyssey: Hunting for ALS genes along a sprawling family tree

By Eric Boodman

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

Dear Atul Gawande: As you go on your listening tour, don’t forget about mental health

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

A photo of a WHO aid receiving the ebola vaccinated.

Health

Ebola outbreak in DRC sets up another test for experimental treatments

By Helen Branswell

A photo of a Poison Control Center

Health

Poison control calls spike for unapproved drug that produces opioid-like highs

By Megan Thielking

A photo of rifampin pills used to treat Tuberculosis.

Health

‘It’s very gratifying’: Pair of studies raise hopes for safer treatment of latent tuberculosis

By Helen Branswell

Health

Did a blockbuster drug make hundreds gamble compulsively? A legal fight may decide what science can’t confirm

By Megan Thielking

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned: This is how you take a public health degree to a startup and back to academia

By Megha Satyanarayana

Ebola response - June 2018

Health

New Ebola outbreak declared in DRC a week after earlier one declared over

By Helen Branswell