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Doctor Tablet

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

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

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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

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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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Watch: 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

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The surgeon general and his brother: A family’s painful reckoning with addiction

By Andrew Joseph

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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

IBM Watson: Lobbying

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IBM to Congress: Watson will transform health care, so keep your hands off our supercomputer

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Dennis S. Charney

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

By Andrew Joseph

Mishawaka

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A doctor’s murder over an opioid prescription leaves an Indiana city with no easy answers

By Megan Thielking

Samantha Herring

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

By David Armstrong and Evan Allen — Boston Globe

Nogales

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After Trump’s immigration crackdown, a desert clinic tries to save lives without breaking the law

By Eric Boodman

Game changers

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The game changers: 12 bold attempts to slow the opioid epidemic

By Max Blau

Clegget Photo Illo

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The addict brokers: Middlemen profit as desperate patients are ‘treated like paychecks’

By David Armstrong and Evan Allen — Boston Globe

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Blowing smoke: Profit motive — and scant evidence — propel dire warnings about surgical fumes

By Usha Lee McFarling

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Zika in Brazil: One disease, two very different lives

By STAT staff

SOON SHIONG

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‘It will help us with our product’: Emails show how a billionaire’s philanthropy boosted his business

By Rebecca Robbins

Taylo Wilson

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Taylor Wilson’s parents fought for 41 days to get their daughter treatment. They couldn’t stop another overdose

By Max Blau

Alternative Medicine

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Medicine with a side of mysticism: Top hospitals promote unproven therapies

By Casey Ross, Max Blau, and Kate Sheridan

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How the world’s richest doctor gave away millions — then steered the cash back to his company

By Rebecca Robbins

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It’s easy money: Lab offers doctors up to $144,000 a year to push dubious genetic tests, employees say

By Charles Piller

Blaine Talbott

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Homeopathic remedies harmed hundreds of babies, families say, as FDA investigated for years

By Sheila Kaplan

SOON-SHIONG Moonshot

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He vowed to cure cancer. But this billionaire’s moonshot is falling far short of the hype

By Rebecca Robbins

Nelson Wood

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This dentist broke his own opioid habit. Can the dental profession do the same?

By David Armstrong

Havana nurse

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The Cuban hustle: Doctors drive cabs and work abroad to make up for meager pay

By Rob Waters

Constance Rodenbarger

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A dangerous wait: Colleges can’t meet soaring student needs for mental health care

By Megan Thielking