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Dec 26 20162 minutes
Innovation Medical Exoskeletons
Michael Belfiore Exoskeletons are wearable robots designed to move or strengthen limbs. Already, lower-body models help paralysis patients in clinics around the world. As long as the devices can continue to shed weight and cost, they should become c
Dec 26 201612 minutes
This Robotic Baby Might Need Changing
TWO OUT OF THREE U.S. SCHOOL DISTRICTS BUY INFANT SIMULATORS MEANT TO INTIMIDATE KIDS OUT OF PARENTHOOD. THE LATEST INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SAYS THEY SIMPLY DON’T WORK
Dec 23 20164 minutes
Can A Pill Replace Pot For Treating Concussions?
Researchers may have found a less-contentious way to deal with the NFL’s concussion epidemic than marijuana.
Dec 21 201629 minutes
‘Better Is Good’: Obama On Reparations, Civil Rights, And The Art Of The Possible
The second in a series of interviews between Ta-Nehisi Coates and the president
Dec 21 20167 minutes
Indiana’s Medicaid Experiment May Reveal Obamacare’s Future
The state’s health-care system was expanded under the Affordable Care Act. Now, it may serve as a model nationwide.
Dec 21 20166 minutes
Virtual Reality Can Leave You With An Existential Hangover
After exploring a virtual world, some people can’t shake the sense that the actual world isn’t real, either.
Dec 20 20169 minutes
How A Pandemic Might Play Out Under Trump
It’s not clear that the next administration is ready to deal with an outbreak of Ebola, pandemic flu, or other emerging diseases.
Dec 20 20167 minutes
If Not Obamacare, Then What?
Trump supporters in southern Pennsylvania say the Affordable Care Act has been a let-down. Here’s what they’d like instead.
Dec 19 20169 minutes
The Crispr Pioneers
THEIR BREAKTHROUGH WORK COULD CHANGE THE WORLD
Dec 19 20164 minutes
My Battle With Depression
IN A NEW MEMOIR, THE SINGER DETAILS HER 2011 DESCENT INTO SUICIDAL DESPAIR AND THE LONG, HARD ROAD BACK TO HEALTH
Dec 19 20161 minute
Best Friends For A Cure
AS 2 LITTLE GIRLS FIGHT A DEADLY DISEASE AFFECTING ONLY 11 KNOWN PEOPLE WORLDWIDE, THEIR FAMILIES LOOK FOR ANSWERS TOGETHER
Dec 19 201612 minutes
On Chinese Aquaculture Farms, The Fish Are Pumped With Antibiotics, As Are The Pigs, Whose Waste Feeds The Fish. So Let’s Talk About That Seafood Platter
From the air, the Pearl River Delta in southern China’s Guangdong province resembles a mass of human cells under a microscope. Hundreds of thousands of tiny rectangular blocks, all of them shades of green, are clustered between cities and waterways.
Dec 19 20164 minutes
The Disabled American Worker
Where jobs vanish, disability insurance is the safety net | “I talk to people who could work, and they’re crying”
Dec 19 20161 minute
Making America (Measurably) Great
The CDC’s statistics on life expectancy are sobering but also a prod to shape health policy
Dec 19 20162 minutes
Not A Normal Work Trip
Writer Ayelet Waldman experiments with microdosing and becomes “weirdly productive.”
Dec 19 20162 minutes
Evidence Of The Superiority Of Female Doctors
New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.
Dec 15 20164 minutes
What If Consumers Just Want To Buy Junk Food?
Americans may say they’re seeking out healthier fare, but sales figures tell a different story.
Dec 15 20167 minutes
No Doctor Should Work 30 Straight Hours Without Sleep
The American medical system requires dangerous feats of sleep deprivation. It doesn’t have to.
Dec 15 20163 minutes
One Patient, Two Cancer Dna Tests, Two Different Results
What happens when cutting-edge medicine offers up conflicting answers?
Dec 14 20162 minutes
Abortion Doesn't Harm Mental Health
A new study finds there’s no evidence to support mandatory abortion counseling that warns women about the negative mental-health impacts of abortion.
Dec 13 20161 minute
The Medical Origins Of Seltzer
Before the advent of modern medicine, people “took the waters” in naturally carbonated springs to cure all varieties of illness.
Dec 13 20163 minutes
Why Are So Many Americans Dying Young?
A new pair of studies show why—and where—American life expectancy has grown worse in a generation.
Dec 12 20162 minutes
Kim & Kanye Their New Family Crisis
WHEN KANYE WEST ranted about Beyoncé and complimented Trump before abruptly leaving the stage at his Nov. 19 concert, many fans shrugged it off as one more controversial move by a consistently unpredictable artist. But it seems West’s outbursts are m
Dec 12 201615 minutes
Is Kratom A Deadly Drug Or A Life-Saving Medicine?
ADVOCATES BELIEVE THE POWDER HELPS PEOPLE KICK OPIOIDS WITHOUT RISK OF ADDICTION. WHEN THE DEA TRIED TO CRIMINALIZE IT, THEY FOUGHT BACK
Dec 12 20162 minutes
J&J Plays The Spurned Suitor
Despite a $27 billion bid, Actelion’s founders want to stay put | “It’s not a question of money. We have enough money”
Dec 12 20163 minutes
An Energy Drink That Tastes Of The Amazon
Runa seeks to profit from U.S. demand for healthier beverages | “There’s only so much shelf space and only so much distribution”
Dec 12 20165 minutes
Why Doesn't Public School Start At Birth?
The economist James Heckman argues in a new paper that early-childhood education should commence at the very beginning of life.
Dec 12 20162 minutes
Time-Travel Therapy
Can a faux 1950s downtown sharpen the minds of dementia patients?
Dec 11 20161 minute
Now, Who Will Take Care Of It?
These days, building staffers clock in daily rather than being available 24/7. “People want their independent lives,” says Peter Mahler of Mahler Private Staffing. How many employees are hired depends on the scale; for houses of at least 10,000 squar
Dec 9 20162 minutes
Pesticides Aren’t The Best Way To Fight Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes
Chemical spraying is less sustainable than other mosquito-fighting methods, and may give people a false sense of security.

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