Opinion: For people of color, ‘where is our pause’ from being killed by police?
Each night, after our 7-year-old son falls asleep, my wife or I go into his room to re-tuck him in. Even if he is perfectly fine, we will find something …
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Opinion: FTC’s challenge to Illumina’s vertical merger with Grail is all wrong
My mom died of stage 4 cancer in February 2008. Had the technology existed then to detect her cancer earlier, she might have met my three young daughters. Improving cancer …
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Opinion: Catching Covid-19 after being vaccinated isn’t a myth. It happened to me
When I was vaccinated against Covid-19, I felt a deep sense of relief: no more worries about personally catching the disease. So when I noticed mild, Covid-19-like symptoms two months …
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A new book traces the roots of the opioid crisis through the secretive Sackler family
The family behind the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma was already under intense legal and public scrutiny when they learned in 2019 that comedian John Oliver was planning to do a …
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We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
Less than a year and a half ago, the world was blissfully, dangerously ignorant of the existence of a coronavirus that would soon turn life on earth on its head. …
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Opinion: For-profit nursing homes and hospices are a bad deal for older Americans
Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and those near the ends of their lives. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they have been just …
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In Q&A, Vice President Harris calls for urgent action on the Black maternal health crisis
It’s an American crisis that was long ignored at the government’s highest levels: Black women in the U.S. are roughly three times more likely to die giving birth than white …
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New report offers guidance for pediatricians on how to prevent abuse of children with disabilities
Children with disabilities are at least three times more likely to experience abuse and neglect compared to their peers, and a new American Academy of Pediatrics report underscores the role …
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Opinion: Lessons learned — and forgotten — from the horrific epidemics of the U.S. Civil War
As the U.S. approaches 600,000 deaths from Covid-19, it is hard to fathom that this calamity pales in comparison to America’s worst outbreak of epidemic diseases during and just after …
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