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Accused doctors get 2nd chance in CA

Barbara Feder Ostrov, Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
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Viral stowaway a defense against disease

Josh Peters
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Health care is where the jobs are

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
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Hep C and drug abuse go hand in hand

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
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Ready for the courts?

Zachary Siegel - Undark
This Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 photo shows the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, displayed on a laptop computer screen in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

5 ways nixing ACA could be disasterous

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
"Mission Moon 3-D: Reliving the Great Space Race" by Brian May and David J. Eicher; Earthrise (MIT Press/NASA)

"Earthrise" (and Apollo 8) turns 50

David J. Eicher, Brian May
Josh Gordon #10 of the New England Patriots (Getty/Maddie Meyer)

Star athletes redefining masculinity

Nicole Karlis
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Caylyn Otto stands next to her son, Oliver, at the Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Born nearly seven weeks early, the baby is one of the youngest heart transplant recipients at Phoenix Children's Hospital. Doctors say Oliver, who was due Feb. 20, has been doing remarkably well post-transplant. At background left is his father, Chris Crawford. (AP Photo/Terry Tang) (AP)

No cash, no heart

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km). (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA pays a visit to asteroid Bennu

Nicole Karlis
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A planet in loss mode

Subhankar Banerjee - TomDispatch.com
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Beware of natural supplements

C. Michael White - The Conversation
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Online shaming may make behavior worse

Brian Edward Kinghorn - The Conversation
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Did Neanderthals make cave paintings?

Patty Hamrick
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One implant, two prices

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017, file photo, the "Pink Star" diamond, the most valuable cut diamond ever offered at auction, is displayed by a model at a Sotheby's auction room in Hong Kong. The stunning 59.6 carat diamond has sold for HK$553 million or US$71.2 million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, setting a record for any diamond or jewel. It's Also the highest price for any work ever sold at auction in Asia. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File) (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Diamonds are forever

Joshua Wilhide, William LaCourse - The Conversation
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A new vaccine for celiac disease

Bob Curley - Healthline
Neil deGrasse Tyson (AP/Frank Micelotta)

Tyson may be a MeToo villain. What now?

Eve Andrews - Grist
Mako sharks killed at the South Jersey Shark Tournament in June 2017. (Lewis Pugh/Independent Media Institute)

Consequence of shark fishing tournaments

Rick Stafford
This undated combination provided by Hologic shows an image taken using conventional mammography, left, and an image using a 3D mammography, right, with a tumor circled that wasn’t visible on the first image. A large study that was published Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that adding breast screening with 3D imaging to conventional digital mammograms is slightly better at finding cancer than regular scans alone, with fewer false alarms. (AP Photo/Courtesy Hologic) (AP)

Should some women get mammograms at 30?

Elizabeth Pratt - Healthline
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Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

The EPA is making your gas mileage worse

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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Women and healthcare discrimination

Nicole Karlis
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HHS shuts down HIV research

Jillian S. Ambroz - DCReport
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MI rehires doctor in Flint water crisis

Matthew Rozsa
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