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As public health insurance in the United States faces potential cuts, a Rutgers University review of medical records finds ...

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Drug companies have been funding the installation of electronic diagnostic machines in pharmacies up and down the country to ...

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The incarcerated are far more likely to die from an overdose after release, but jail- and prison-based MOUD programs cut that ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising sugar-related mechanism inside brain cells that could transform how we fight Alzheimer ...

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