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The future of Alzheimer's
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Forecasting Alzheimer’s: With a tsunami of new diagnoses expected, experts calculate the best ways to shift the tide

By Sharon Begley

Ting Han
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Chinese scientists came to the U.S. to pursue their dreams. Under tighter scrutiny, many are returning home

By Diana Cai

Mari-Hélène avec Tobie
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The vaccine whisperers: Counselors gently engage new parents before their doubts harden into certainty

By Eric Boodman

Pharma wins in Washington illustration
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How pharma, under attack from all sides, keeps winning in Washington

By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher

Alzheimer's research
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The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades

By Sharon Begley

Rx overprescribing KHN
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While addiction crisis raged, many surgeons overprescribed opioids, analysis shows

By Julie Appleby and Elizabeth Lucas — Kaiser Health News

Hydrocodone Acetaminophen
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How the Kaiser-Johns Hopkins analysis was done

By Kaiser Health News

Jaci Hermstad
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When ‘right to try’ isn’t enough: Congress wants a single ALS patient to get a therapy never tested in humans

By Nicholas Florko

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Celebrity-backed shows make bold pitches to health care companies — and charge big bucks. But the experiences don’t always deliver

By Megan Thielking

TUFTS - Sackler
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‘We owe much to the Sackler family’: How gifts to a top medical school advanced the interests of Purdue Pharma

By Andrew Joseph

James High
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Their baby died during his nap. Then medical bureaucrats deepened the parents’ anguish

By Eric Boodman

Richard Sackler
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Purdue’s Sackler embraced plan to conceal OxyContin’s strength from doctors, sealed deposition shows

By David Armstrong — ProPublica

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Document: Facing blame for seeding the opioid crisis, Purdue explored its next profit opportunity — treating addiction

By David Armstrong — ProPublica

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Celgene, sold for $74 billion, leaves a legacy of chutzpah in science and drug pricing

By Matthew Herper

Pharma pays up illo
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How PhRMA finally lost: the inside story of the group’s biggest lobbying failure in years

By Nicholas Florko

Genetically Modified Twins illustration
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The CRISPR shocker: How genome-editing scientist He Jiankui rose from obscurity to stun the world

By Sharon Begley and Andrew Joseph

Therapeutic Clowns
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These children can neither move nor speak. Clowns and engineers are trying to listen to their inner worlds

By Eric Boodman

Anna Legassie
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Extraordinary tactics, perverse incentives: Makers of top-selling drugs hike prices in lockstep, and patients bear the cost

By Casey Ross

Thomas Goode
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Denied ‘life-extending opportunities’: Black patients are being left out of clinical trials amid wave of new cancer therapies

By Caroline Chen and Riley Wong — ProPublica

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

By Eric Boodman

Doctor Tablet
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Artificial intelligence may not be curing cancer, but it is already changing medicine

By Casey Ross

Amish Clinic
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The Amish pool resources for their medical care. A budget-busting gene therapy puts them in a bind

By Eric Boodman

Teaching Hospital Safety
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The next generation of doctors may be learning bad habits at teaching hospitals with many safety violations

By Max Blau

Surfactants
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How an inconspicuous slaughterhouse keeps the world’s premature babies alive

By Eric Boodman

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These doctors are trying to get more people of color to join their ranks. What some have overcome is startling

By Megha Satyanarayana

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Japan faces its old age with robots and virtual reality

By Shiho Fukada

Evan Jones
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College can be brutal for students with serious mental health conditions. Here, they find support their schools can’t provide

By Megan Thielking

Adams brothers - photo collage
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The surgeon general and his brother: A family’s painful reckoning with addiction

By Andrew Joseph

Doctor/patient survey - discrimination
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6 in 10 doctors report abusive remarks from patients, and many get little help coping with the wounds

By Bob Tedeschi

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