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The dark side of genetic testing

Sarah Catherine Nelson - The Conversation
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First, marijuana—magic mushrooms next?

Barbara Feder Ostrov - KFF Health News
In this March 16, 2017 photo, sugar tax stickers are posted by sweetened beverages at the IGA supermarket in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia. Less than three months into Philadelphia's new tax on sweetened drinks, the stakes have escalated: Beverage makers say the measure is hurting sales so much they need to cut jobs, while city officials say the moves are a ploy to get the tax struck down. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Diet soda may be hurting your diet

Eunice Zhang - The Conversation
In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, photo, a worker walks across an area where coal ash removal is underway at the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. is digging up and hauling away the toxic coal residues two years after one of the worst coal-ash spills in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP)

Coal ash contains toxic chemicals

Laura Mast
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WHO: Eliminate trans fats by 2023

Nicole Karlis
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Fake drugs and malaria

Jackson Thomas, Erin Walker, Gregory Peterson, Mark Naunton - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Portugal stands apart from the U.S.

Phillip Smith - Alternet
Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

A do-nothing drugs threat

Angélica Durán-Martínez - The Conversation
Members of ACT-UP march in New York's annual Gay Pride Parade, June 25, 1990. (AP/Joseph F. Major)

HIV/AIDS taught us how to beat opioids

Adam Bisaga
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

FDA takes step to help smokers quit

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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Forget about executing drug dealers

Kevin Doyle
Stanford University (Wikimedia/Travis Wise)

Hunger among college students is a issue

Daphne Hernandez - The Conversation
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Incinerating trash is not effective

Ana Baptista - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Heavy drinking risk for dementia: study

Nicole Karlis

How to prepare for the next flu pandemic

Lance Gable - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Study: Pot helps the elderly

Terry Hacienda - The Fresh Toast
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South is the least healthy region in US

Jay Maddock - The Conversation
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California to pay users to test drugs

Pauline Bartolone - KFF Health News
FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident, in the spillway downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (AP)

The race for molybdenum-99

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
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Food stamps and health

Courtney Perkes - KFF Health News
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GOP crusade against pregnant women

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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Denying Medicare to chronically ill

Susan Jaffe - KFF Health News
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US life expectancy drops again

David Bishai - The Conversation
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Caring for a sibling with mental illness

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
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