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This Nonprofit Health System Cuts Off Patients With Medical Debt

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Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections lawsuits. They garnish patients’...
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No One Knows How Many L.G.B.T.Q. Americans Die by Suicide

Barbara Chase -
Cory Russo, the chief death investigator in Utah, is used to asking strangers questions at the most excruciating moments of their lives. When...
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X-Ray Vision Brings New Life to a Fossil Flattened by Time

Barbara Chase -
While exploring an Arctic mountaintop in 2008, paleontologists unearthed a small skeleton that resembled a coiled sea serpent imprinted into a slab of...
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F.D.A. Approves Pfizer’s R.S.V. Vaccine for Older Adults

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Why It Matters: Older adults are at a higher risk.Each year, about 60,000 adults 65 and older are hospitalized with R.S.V. and about...
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An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity. Here’s What the Ruling Means.

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On Tuesday, a federal appeals court granted members of the billionaire Sackler family a legal golden key that they had been seeking for...
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How to Lower Deaths Among Women? Give Away Cash.

Barbara Chase -
Why It Matters: Poverty is a big killer.In 2019, more than 8 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on...
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Rise in Sightings of Honeybee Swarms Has U.K. Beekeepers Scrambling

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The sight is one that beekeepers say is understandably intimidating to the ordinary person out for a walk: a sliver of sky suddenly...
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Honoring the Body Donors Who Are a Medical Student’s ‘First Patient’

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Similar scenes played out across the country this spring as medical, dental and physical therapy students assembled to offer tributes to whole-body donors...
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Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse.

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The climate crisis is becoming a financial crisis.This month, the largest homeowner insurance company in California, State Farm, announced that it would stop...
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Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse.

Barbara Chase -
The climate crisis is becoming a financial crisis.This month, the largest homeowner insurance company in California, State Farm, announced that it would stop...
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