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The latest developments affecting patients and practitioners

Health

Better late than never: Changing what you eat can change how soon you’ll die

By Kate Sheridan

Health

House panel seeks to block FDA e-cigarette rules

By Associated Press

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Health

A medical mystery: How can gunshot wounds cause death decades later?

By Jonathan Wosen

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Health

15 percent of men regret prostate cancer treatment choices years later, study finds

By Charles Bankhead — MedPage Today

Health

UN: Yemen unlikely to get cholera vaccine as first planned

By Associated Press

Health

Medical debt? Big changes are coming to the way credit agencies report it

By Michelle Andrews — Kaiser Health News

Politics

With ‘shame on you’ chants and harsh tweets, nurses union pushes single-payer bill

By Pauline Bartolone — California Healthline

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Health

Meet the doctor who helped inspire a controversial Netflix movie about anorexia

By Rebecca Robbins

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In the Lab

Vaccine shows protection against gonorrhea for first time, study says

By Helen Branswell

Health

Accidental effect of fewer Pap screenings: more cases of undiagnosed chlamydia

By Catherine Caruso

Health

Drink coffee? It won’t hurt you, and may reduce your risk of an early death

Health

4 health wearables trying to break through hospital walls

Health

Chemotherapy before breast cancer surgery might fuel metastasis

By Sharon Begley

Health

Drive to help nursing home patients live independently could face deep cuts under GOP health plans

By Cassie M. Chew

Health

More opioids were prescribed here per person than anywhere else in the U.S.

By Andrew Joseph

Health

Ohio sheriff won’t let deputies carry Narcan, citing safety

By Associated Press

Special Report

Desperate for addiction treatment, patients are pawns in lucrative insurance fraud scheme

By David Armstrong — STAT and Evan Allen — Boston Globe

Health

How do you like walrus? Well done is best amid outbreak

By Associated Press

Under the Microscope

My work-life balance is tilting toward work. I’m trying to tilt it back

By Sara Whitlock

Health

In pain and with nowhere to go, homeless patients find respite in a writing group

By Megan Thielking

Health

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald is named new CDC director

By Helen Branswell

Health

New data show gonorrhea increasingly resistant to antibiotics

By Helen Branswell

Hospitals

New York hospital offers to admit Charlie Gard, baby at center of life-and-death legal fight

By Sharon Begley

Health

Opioid prescriptions down since 2010, but big differences seen among counties

By Andrew Joseph

Health

New on the streets: Gabapentin, a drug for nerve pain, and a new target of abuse

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez — Kaiser Health News

Health

Too early for forecast on Lyme disease ticks, experts say

By Associated Press

In the Lab

Personalized cancer vaccines vanquish melanoma in small but encouraging study

By Sharon Begley

Health

As new and lethal opioids flood U.S. streets, crime labs race to identify them

In the Lab

The 10 scientists who got the biggest federal research grants this year

By Sharon Begley

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