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March 2019
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Are The Risks Of Drugs That Enhance Imaging Tests Overblown?

A contrast agent doesn't make you feel better or treat what's ailing you. But by making CT scans clearer, contrast might be crucial in helping your doctor make the right diagnosis.

CT scans are displayed on computer monitors.
December 2018
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Iron Is the New Cholesterol

Elevated iron is at the center of a web of disease stretching from cancer to diabetes.

A patient's arm is extended while blood samples are being taken.
November 2018
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Dangerous Infection Tied To Hospitals Now Becoming Common Outside Them

Infections with Clostridium difficile can be difficult to treat and life-threatening. Once a problem seen mainly in health care facilities, the infections are now occurring often in the community.

A class of bacteria known as Clostridia, displayed up close.
November 2018
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An Rx for Doctors

A new psychology of control. Every physician remembers their first bad case. Mine went like this.

A doctor in a lab coat crossing his arms, while holding a stethoscope.
August 2018
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Will medicine ever recover from the perverse economics of drugs?

For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?

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March 2018
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Why Did Sterile Salt Water Become The IV Fluid Of Choice?

IV bags filled with what's called normal saline are used to treat problems ranging from vomiting to lightheadedness. But evidence for the use of saline over other intravenous options is scant.

IV bags hanging in front of a bright light.
March 2018
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When Opioids Make Pain Worse

For some people, something as simple as having an IV line inserted can be excruciating. An emergency room doctor noticed a strange pattern. Many of these sensitive patients were regular opioid users.

Drawing of a person on their hands and knees with pills stacking around them.
May 2017
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Lifestyle changes, not a magic pill, can reverse Alzheimer’s

Comprehensive lifestyle changes can reverse Alzheimer’s. What does this mean for the treatment of other chronic diseases?

Women doing a group activity in a public place with seagulls flying overhead.
January 2017
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There is nothing inevitable or natural about chronic disease

There is nothing inevitable or even natural about the tide of chronic disease which threatens to overwhelm modern medicine

Photograph of medicine in a multi-compartment plastic pill container.