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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
(AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

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
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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
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
Rick Snyder (AP/Al Goldis)

MI rehires doctor in Flint water crisis

Matthew Rozsa
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Arctic Ocean not so arctic anymore

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

Opioids after surgery: Where do they go?

Brian Krans - Healthline
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Curbing unhealthy gambling habits

Katherine Kam - KFF Health News
Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Arctic drilling: An ecocide of wildlife

Finis Dunaway - Truthout
A nurse prepares a flu shot. (AP/David Goldman)

Half of US adults still without flu shot

Nicole Karlis
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)

Deadline for Obamacare sign up: Dec 15

Cathy Cassata - Healthline
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This Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, photo shows the Apple Watch Nike Plus on display, in New York. Apple isn't the first to add GPS functionality to a smartwatch, but it's the first to make something that feels like a running watch. And the company is doubling down on that with a Nike edition out Friday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

An Apple Watch In Grandma’s stocking

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
The Hendrickson-Craig family. (Image via Samitha Hendrickson/Healthline)

They had insurance. Their baby didn't.

Stephanie Booth - Healthline
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Climate change and war

Kate Yoder - Grist
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The ocean floor is dying

Sandra Brooke
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Air pollution linked with autism risk

George Citroner - Healthline
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The right to destroy the Earth

Matthew Rozsa
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Bornean orangutan pop. keeps falling

Alan Knight - Independent Media Institute
Cars destroyed by the Camp Fire sit in the lot at a used car dealership on November 9, 2018 in Paradise, California. (Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

Why pre-colonial California burned less

William Bryant Logan
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