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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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A Timeline of Sugar Spin

How the sweets industry won America's heart—and gut.

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Is Romney Using Lyme Disease to Win Swing State Votes?

In Virginia's Loudoun County, the candidate waded into a contentious debate over Lyme disease. But in his bid to court voters, Romney may be playing politics with public health.

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| Mon Oct. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Why Is the FDA Inspecting So Little Imported Seafood?

The agency tests just 2.7 percent of seafood from abroad—despite the fact that much of it is grown under grotesque conditions.

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| Mon Oct. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

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STUDY: Injecting Young Blood May Reverse Effects of Aging

And suddenly, real life is a horror movie.

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| Fri Oct. 19, 2012 11:18 AM PDT
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At the Forefront of America's Health Care Battle: "The Waiting Room"

An interview with Pete Nicks, director of the new documentary "The Waiting Room."

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| Wed Oct. 17, 2012 1:01 PM PDT
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Fungi, Regulatory Loopholes, and Scott Brown: The Meningitis Outbreak Explained

A deadly outbreak has exposed loopholes in regulation of under-the-radar drug distributors known as compounding pharmacies.

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| Thu Oct. 18, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Next on the Anti-Abortion Agenda: Spousal Consent?

An anti-abortion group is lobbying Kansas lawmakers to pass a law allowing spouses to "intervene" to prevent an abortion

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| Wed Oct. 17, 2012 3:30 AM PDT

What's Causing the West Nile Virus Outbreak?

This year is one of the worst ever in the US for this mosquito-borne illness. Here are a few possible explanations.

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| Mon Oct. 15, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling on College Campuses

The state's latest grab for Marcellus Shale money could turn some colleges into industrial zones.

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| Fri Oct. 12, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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The Romney-Ryan Plan to Obliterate Medicaid

If the GOP ticket gets its way, the poor and the elderly can kiss their coverage goodbye.

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| Fri Oct. 12, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Poop Therapy: More Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Fecal Transplants

Gross as it sounds, an infusion of good bacteria—in the form of someone else's excrement—seems to help fight some infections.

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| Mon Oct. 8, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Shocker: Free Birth Control Means Fewer Abortions

New research shows access to free contraception leads to fewer unintended pregnancies and abortions.

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| Fri Oct. 5, 2012 11:57 AM PDT
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Romney's Plan to Win Virginia: Lyme Disease

The GOP presidential candidate sends out mailers promising to crack down on ticks. All politics is local, right?

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| Fri Sep. 28, 2012 7:53 AM PDT
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Longreads: 5 Diseases You Didn't Know to Worry About

Great long-form journalism on diseases that have been resurrected by antibiotic resistance, spread by climate change, or just been completely baffling.

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| Fri Sep. 28, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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BPA From Cans Messes With Your Ovaries

A new study on rhesus monkeys—a species with a reproductive system very similar to humans'—shows serious trouble with the ubiquitous, FDA-approved chemical.

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| Thu Sep. 27, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Why Don't More American Women Use IUDs?

The modern IUD has a low failure rate, is safe, and is cheap in the long run. So why is it so hard for some women to get one?

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| Wed Sep. 26, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Is Raw Milk Really Good for You?

It might taste great, but pasteurization was invented for a reason.

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| Mon Sep. 24, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Anti-Abortion Scholar: Restrictions Should Be Designed to Raise Costs for Women

At the Values Voter Summit, a leading abortion rights foe slips up.

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| Fri Sep. 21, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Waiter, There's Arsenic in My Rice

A new Consumer Reports study finds significant amounts of arsenic in rice—and implicates factory chicken farming.

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| Wed Sep. 19, 2012 3:00 AM PDT