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Trump and Obama

Politics By Dylan Scott

Obama vs. Trump: Early report card on how health and science are changing

Tinnitus

Health By Joyce Cohen

A quest to explain the whooshing in her head

Lara MacGregor breast cancer

Health By Associated Press

Crowdsourcing effort takes aim at deadliest breast cancers

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

Nobel Prize goes to Japanese scientist for work on key cellular recycling process

Precision Medicine

First Opinion By Eric Dishman

Americans are keen to take part in a national precision medicine program

Precision Medicine

First Opinion By Spencer Phillips Hey and Aaron S. Kesselheim

Imprecise research threatens precision medicine

Canadian Health Minister Jane Philpott

In the Lab By Carolyn Abraham

An ugly summer for science: Turmoil rocks Canadian research community

Noses

In the Lab By Anna Vlasits

This smells promising: Nasal bacteria pump out a new antibiotic that kills MRSA

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BRANDON CHUANG

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

A journey through schizophrenia, from researcher to patient and back

NIH Clinical Center

First Opinion By David M. Nathan and David G. Nathan

The NIH is abandoning vital clinical research centers. That’s a mistake

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Gordon Weir Susan Bonner-Weir Joslin Diabetes Center

Health By Melissa Bailey

These diabetes researchers will soon celebrate 50 years of marriage

Women doctors

Health By Leah Samuel

Female scientists report pervasive gender bias, sexual harassment

Frozen samples

Politics By Dylan Scott

Scientists fight Obama plan to require patient consent to use blood, biopsies in research

Health By Melissa Bailey

Harvard Medical School eases rule on faculty ties to industry

Marsha Blackburn

Politics By Sheila Kaplan

Fetal tissue hearing in Congress dissolves into bickering over evidence

Eric Dishman

Politics By Sheila Kaplan

Precision medicine helped him beat cancer. Now he’s leading Obama’s initiative

Disney fruit

Health By Sheila Kaplan

Disney, fearing a scandal, tried to press journal to withdraw research paper

New England Journal of Medicine

In the Lab By Charles Ornstein — ProPublica

Amid public feuds, a venerated medical journal finds itself under attack

Patrick Semansky/AP

Politics By Ike Swetlitz

This scientist works with tissue from aborted fetuses. Congress has come calling

Dr. Reggie Edgerton

In the Lab By Usha Lee McFarling

A dogged quest to fix broken spinal cords pays off with new hope for the paralyzed

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

Asthma patients fare better after hands-on instructions with inhalers

Mouse

Quick Take By Eric Boodman

Mutant mice could shed light on new drug targets for obesity

NFL Concussion

Politics By Dylan Scott

‘The sky is not falling’: Congress looks at science of concussions

Politics By Sheila Kaplan

Fight over NIH funding puts Senate medical innovation bills in jeopardy

Scientist at microscope

The Watchdogs By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Female medical researchers hit a paper ceiling