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3 to watch
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3 challenges to watch in global health in 2020

By Helen Branswell

Marijuana pregnancy
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As more states legalize marijuana, pregnant women and their doctors grapple with how to talk about it

By Megan Thielking

Play
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Watch: What is vitamin E acetate, and why does it seem to make some vapers so sick?

By Megan Thielking and Alex Hogan

Vaping close up
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New evidence strengthens link between vitamin E acetate and vaping illness

By Megan Thielking

EBOLA VACCINATION
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FDA approves an Ebola vaccine, long in development, for the first time

By Helen Branswell

Opioid photo illustration
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National Academies outlines opioid guidelines, aiming to make approach to prescribing more consistent

By Andrew Joseph

Bone Marrow Transplant Illustration
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Waning treatment for immune deficiency is a warning for all ‘one-and-done’ therapies

By Eric Boodman

Teen Vaping
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One in five high school seniors vaped marijuana in the last year, fueling concern among health officials

By Megan Thielking

Dr. Bar Peled
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In novel partnership with cancer group, biotech venture firm doles out grants for research

By Kate Sheridan

Munira Shamin w Ahmin Haider
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A controversial dwarfism drug, after clearing pivotal study, heads to the FDA

By Damian Garde

Times Up
Health

At Time’s Up Healthcare, a new leader seeks inclusiveness to boost ‘a mission and a movement’

By Megan Thielking

Cambridge: Sarepta
Biotech

FDA changes course on Sarepta’s once-rejected muscular dystrophy drug

By Damian Garde

Surgery
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Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing

By Gideon Gil

Pete Frates - Ice Bucket Challenge
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After Ice Bucket campaign, researchers have optimism about insights into ALS puzzle

By Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

In the Lab

New STAT report explores viral vectors, the linchpin of gene therapy

By STAT staff

Breast Cancer cells
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Breast cancer drug picked up by AstraZeneca shrinks tumors in majority of women with common tumor

By Matthew Herper

Pete Frates
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Pete Frates, who raised millions for ALS research by championing the Ice Bucket Challenge, dies at 34

By Bryan Marquard and Travis Andersen — Boston Globe

Alzheimer's photo essay
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‘You keep loving each other’: A window into dementia at the end of a lifelong partnership

By Alissa Ambrose

2018 flu shots
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U.S. flu season off to its earliest start in more than 15 years

By Associated Press

Charlie Luckesen Immunity Disorder
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Families are reeling after FDA rejects therapy for kids born without a thymus gland

By Eric Boodman

Susan Desmond-Hellmann
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Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond-Hellmann to step down

By Helen Branswell

Opioids Sacklers Tufts
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Tufts will scour Sackler name from its medical campus, in rebuff of family that controls Purdue Pharma

By Andrew Joseph

Ebola vaccine Goma
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The Gavi coalition boosts the global stockpile of Ebola vaccines

By Helen Branswell

Birth Control Pills
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A monthly birth control pill? Experiment in pigs opens door to more trials

By Associated Press

Newborn bili lights
Health

How police shootings of unarmed black Americans could be harming the health of black infants

By Shraddha Chakradhar

Huntingtons Tammy Stewart
Health

A clinical trial for Huntington’s opens the door to hope for some patients. Only so many can get in

By Andrew Joseph

Truvada
Health

Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drug for free to uninsured in new program

By Helen Branswell

OC Phases
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The history of OxyContin, told through unsealed Purdue documents

By Shraddha Chakradhar and Casey Ross

Purdue docs
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Purdue’s Richard Sackler proposed plan to play down OxyContin risks, and wanted drug maker feared ‘like a tiger,’ files show

By Casey Ross

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