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March 12, 2024
Nick Tabor
Sick Because of Roundup? These Bills Could Make Suing Impossible.
High-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of causing cancer and Parkinson’s. But three states are now considering bills that would prevent these lawsuits.
March 21, 2023
Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
The War on Terror Created a Cancer Crisis. These Vets Are Trying to Fight Back.
More than 500,000 active-duty soldiers have been diagnosed with cancer over the past two decades.
December 9, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Government Should Stop Funding For-Profit Hospice Care
A recent story shows it’s a racket. Because it’s taxpayer-funded through Medicare, it shouldn’t be too hard to end it.
March 25, 2021
Magazine
Emily Bernard
Audre Lorde Broke the Silence
In her poems and “The Cancer Journals,” Lorde fought to name her experience.
May 16, 2019
George Blaustein
The Audacity of Grief
On the mournful threads connecting Joe Biden’s half-century in politics
May 10, 2019
Audrey Clare Farley
Big Pharma Is Pushing a Big Lie
People are dying because they can't afford necessary medications, but drug manufacturers say they need high prices to fund future breakthroughs.
December 27, 2018
Ted Alcorn
The Fight to Save Independent Health Care in the Age of Medical Monopolies
Can a New Mexico oncologist succeed in breaking up the state's biggest health care provider?
May 18, 2018
Melody Schreiber
The Erin Brockoviches of Ecuador
For these women, environmentalism and women's rights are closely linked: Past drilling projects have resulted in increased assaults, cancer, and infertility.
June 6, 2017
Graham Vyse
We have a new contestant in the lowest thing Donald Trump has allegedly ever done.
February 16, 2016
Emma Young
The Animals That Can Save Your Life
Rats can smell tuberculosis. Dogs can smell cancer. Now they’re being trained to help us survive.
December 17, 2015
Sri Krishna
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Diego Chowell
How Computers Help Biologists Hack Life’s Secrets
November 13, 2015
Vincent T. DeVita
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Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
How the FDA Fails Cancer Patients
For years, government rules on drug trials blocked access to a vital drug.
January 21, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
A Little Girl Died Because Canada Chose Cultural Sensitivity Over Western Medicine
October 30, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Boston Strong: Remembering Mayor Thomas Menino
October 14, 2014
Lizzie Stark
Life With the Breast Cancer Gene Is a Hellish Mix of Anxiety and Self-Doubt
I'm poked, prodded, felt up, and scanned—and don't even know if it will stop the cancer
October 8, 2014
Harold Pollack
This Woman Will Take Her Own Life November 1. Our Healthcare System Let Her Down.
September 17, 2014
Esther Breger
This TV Show Pays Homage To—And Utterly Ruins—The Fault in Our Stars
The latest entry in pop culture’s Year of Sick Teens
September 10, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Apple Watch Could Spark a Health Care Revolution
The market is already full of amazing health-tracking devices—and now it may become cool to use them
January 24, 2014
Ian Steadman
Scientists Have Discovered 11,000-Year-Old Sexually Transmitted Dog Cancer
December 27, 2013
Adrian Marston
It's Time to Ditch the Word "Cancer"
A label that misleads patients and helps quacks
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