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Powerful painkiller without abuse protections approved using controversial...
Despite recommendations by its own advisers, the US Food and Drug Administration approved last month a powerful new opioid painkiller without abuse-deterrent ingredients and tested through favorable...
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Protest Planned Against Last-Minute Bloomberg Push for Mandatory Flu Vaccines
The Confirmation Files:Posted by The NON-Conformist Originally posted on Politicker: A flu vaccine. (Photo: Denis Charlet/Getty) Autism advocates are set to protest tomorrow against a quiet effort by...
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How Our Modern Way of Life Is Built on a Long Legacy of Slavery
Image:Otto Dettmer, NY Times When Americans think about slavery, we think about the Civil War, cotton plantations in Georgia, and the legacy that those centuries of bondage left in the United States....
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Onesimus: Inoculation Pioneer
Born in Africa, Onesimus was a slave of Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister in Boston. When a smallpox epidemic broke out in Boston in 1721, Onesimus informed his master about an inoculation procedure...
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End of Alzheimer’s? Doctors optimistic after breakthrough
Image: Twitter British scientists have developed a blood test that identifies the 10 proteins that show Alzheimer’s disease is imminent, thus allowing physicians to take action against the condition...
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Chris Christie’s Terrible Vaccine Advice
The Confirmation Files:Posted by Libergirl Originally posted on TIME: Last I checked, Chris Christie isn’t a licensed commercial pilot, which is one reason he probably doesn’t phone the cockpit with...
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End Patent Monopolies on Drugs
The United States stands out among wealthy countries in that we give drug companies patent monopolies on drugs that are essential for people’s health or lives and then allows them to charge whatever...
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CDC used 40% less sensitive Zika test, punished whistleblower for raising...
The US health agency in charge of fighting Zika used a less effective test to diagnose the virus and punished a whistleblower who raised his concerns both internally and to health officials, an...
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More Guns, Less Medicine: Trump’s Military Spending Binge Would Swamp Savings...
THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (CBO) released its analysis of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on Monday, finding that the Trump-backed House Republican bill that seeks to repeal and replace...
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