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How a Billionaire Friend Changed Trump’s Mind About Pot
Credit card pioneer Howard Kessler persuaded the president to buck decades of Republican dogma on marijuana. ‘It really had to do with a personal…
Gabe Kaminsky
Flavored Vapes Can Save Lives
High schoolers have turned away from vaping and smoking, so obsessing over flavored e-cigarettes is a waste of time.
Joe Nocera
Your Back Hurts? Your Feet May Be the Problem.
Look at your bare foot. Trace it on a piece of paper. Now place your favorite shoe over that outline. Once you see how much of your own foot lives…
Charlotte Grinberg, MD
Death in One Day: Inside Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Machine
‘Hastening death becomes the path of least resistance,’ says a medical ethicist as Canada nears 110,000 MAID deaths.
Rupa Subramanya
In Defense of Processed Foods
Yes, America has a diet problem. No, it’s not because your bread comes in a bag.
Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg
Big Food Is Killing Our Children
Government-backed dietary guidelines and corporate influence are driving a surge in childhood obesity. The consequences are catastrophic.
Mark Hyman, MD
Why Fentanyl Deaths Are Falling
Changes in supply and demand—plus the toll of a million deaths—have disrupted the fentanyl market.
Sally Satel
Relax, Microplastics Aren’t Killing You
A debunked study last year connected microplastics in the brain to everything from heart attacks to dementia. Guess what? It’s not true.
Faye Flam
Why We Threw Out the Broken Food Pyramid
The FDA commissioner and his top deputy on how the government’s new dietary guidelines are a big improvement.
Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. and  Kyle Diamantas
Has the Food Pyramid Been Fixed? Or Is It Even More Broken?
Ezekiel Emanuel, Lucy McBride, Vani Hari, and Nina Teicholz on America’s new dietary guidelines.
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What I’ve Learned from Watching People Wait to Have Children
As doctors, we owe our patients the truth: You cannot defy biology.
Sarah Poggi
I’m Finally Practicing Medicine the Way It Should Be Done
A new model of medicine lets doctors, not insurers, decide on care.
Charlotte Grinberg, MD
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