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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

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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

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

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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

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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

Asylum trauma
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Fleeing violence, asylum-seekers rely on psychologists to back up their story

By Eric Boodman

CIRM Stem cell illustration
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California voters were promised cures. But the state stem cell agency has funded just a trickle of clinical trials

By Charles Piller

STANFORD CENTER FOR BACK PAIN
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A ‘civil war’ over painkillers rips apart the medical community — and leaves patients in fear

By Bob Tedeschi

Pieter Cohen
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A supplement maker tried to silence this Harvard doctor — and put academic freedom on trial

By Rebecca Robbins

Faces
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52 weeks, 52 faces: Obituaries narrate lives lost to the opioid epidemic

By David Armstrong

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