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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
The Drug Turning Philadelphia into a Zombieland
First heroin, then fentanyl, then tranq. Now medetomidine is hollowing out Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, the country’s most notorious open-air drug…
Mattha Busby
Estrogen Is Back
Estrogen for menopause was demonized for decades. Now some vocal, very online doctors are saying it’s a miracle drug. The FDA appears to agree.
Jennifer Block
Grass Sick: The Mysterious Marijuana Syndrome Filling Emergency Rooms
Nonstop vomiting, involuntary screaming, and the worst pain of their lives. The only way to stop the symptoms? Stop getting high.
Josh Code
Trump’s Vaccine Chief on Childhood Vaccinations
Dr. Vinay Prasad does not believe vaccines cause autism. But ‘I think the scientific establishment blindly defending the U.S. vaccine schedule is…
Bari Weiss
FDA Chief Marty Makary on Tylenol, Autism, and Restoring Trust in Science
What do we actually know about what’s causing the autism epidemic?
Bari Weiss
How I Drank My Way to Sobriety
I spent half my life trying to beat alcoholism. AA didn’t save me. This did.
Katie Herzog
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