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Category: Public Health, Medicine, and Science
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A new book by a high-risk OB-GYN tells a gripping tale from the front lines of the NICU and from his daughter’s bedside.
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What about abortion gives it staying power as the central issue in domestic politics, even in the period of the worst economic situation since the Great Depression of the 1930s?
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Out in paperback today… Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
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The Obama administration overruled the FDA’s recommendation to make Plan B an over-the-counter for teenagers. Carole Joffe looks at how this decision echoes earlier restrictions.
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Triggered by the coverage of molestation charges at Penn State and elsewhere, Martin Moran confronts his own memories of abuse.
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The holidays inevitably bring awkward– and sometimes heated– political conversations with our loved ones.
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There is another 99 percent group in our country, distinct from but inextricably entwined with the now more familiar 99 percent evoked by Occupy Wall Street.
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By year’s end, 40,000 U.S. troops will return from Iraq. But the long nightmare of the Iraq War will not be over for either side of the conflict.
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Carole Joffe looks at how one target of anti-choice bullying used his opponents’ tactics to strike back.
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When politicians lie about health care issues it puts people at risk.
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