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First Opinion

Goop’s pseudoscience ministry comes to Netflix

By Jennifer Gunter

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First Opinion

Why Black doctors like me are leaving faculty positions in academic medical centers

By Uché Blackstock

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Microglia

First Opinion

Microglia: a new target in the brain for depression, Alzheimer’s, and more?

By Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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Adam's Take

The truth about JPM: Less is more

By Adam Feuerstein

ASH19 Lymphoma

In the Lab

Tweaking how CAR-T therapy kills tumors could stop a dangerous side effect, study finds

By Sharon Begley

Alzheimer's research

Special Report

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

By Sharon Begley

Liberia Ebola

Health

‘Against all odds’: The inside story of how scientists across three continents produced an Ebola vaccine

By Helen Branswell

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Endnotes

When a patient nears the end, a feared therapy can also comfort

By Bob Tedeschi

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Alexis Borisy and Melanie Nallicheri

Biotech

‘We have a tragedy of the commons’: How a VC thinks his new company can lower drug prices

By Adam Feuerstein and Matthew Herper

Trump vaccine

Health

‘They have to get the shots’: Trump, once a vaccine skeptic, changes his tune amid measles outbreaks

By Helen Branswell

Ketamine Clouds

A STAT Investigation

Ketamine gives hope to patients with severe depression. But some clinics stray from the science and hype its benefits

By Megan Thielking

Donor Blood

Health

Why you get paid to donate plasma but not blood

By Elizabeth Preston

Alex Brandon/AP

Politics

Airing frustrations with pharma, a Republican FTC commissioner just endorsed Medicare negotiation

Rx overprescribing KHN

Special Report

While addiction crisis raged, many surgeons overprescribed opioids, analysis shows

By Julie Appleby and Elizabeth Lucas — Kaiser Health News

Substance abuse treatment center bed

First Opinion

Mental health and addiction care are poorly covered by insurance networks

By Patrick J. Kennedy

Hospital room

First Opinion

Boosting competition among hospitals, health systems will improve health care

By Sherry A. Glied and Stuart H. Altman

Open Heart Surgery

Health

‘Donation after cardiac death’: New heart transplant method being tested for the first time in the U.S.

By Shraddha Chakradhar

Truvada

Health

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

By Helen Branswell

Narcotics

First Opinion

I told my doctors my drug history. Yet they gave me opioids without counseling

By Seth Mnookin