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# health
National healthcare systems are getting sick and tired of paying for expensive placebos.
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Armies of smart microscopic robots roaming your bloodstream are still science fiction. But simpler beneficial nanoparticles may be coming sooner than later.
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Soda taxes can curb consumption of sugary drinks, but their benefits are vastly oversold and the problems we're facing need a more holistic approach.
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Australian health watchdogs give the country's most rabid anti-vaxers a scathing rebuke, but doesn't go beyond giving them a slap on the wrist.
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The self-proclaimed investigative journalist for the anti-vax blog Age of Autism is doing the only thing he knows how to do: play six degrees of Big Pharma.
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The city of San Francisco wants cell phone makers to display information showing that their phones are harmless in the most menacing and confusing way possible.
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Despite the gloom and doom you see on the news, we're actually making huge strides in improving medicine and have a pretty good handle on what the media insists are crises.
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Wakefield may have lost his medical license and is no longer able to call himself a doctor, but his damage to public health has been done and will continue.
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The "health freedom" movement has nothing to do with giving you more options because the freedom is from all those pesky safety regulations and scientific studies.
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Despite decades of experiments and mountains of evidence, there are still activists who refuse to believe HIV causes AIDS. And they have blood on their hands.
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Anti-vaxers are on a mission to bring back diseases we eliminated or kept under control by vaccination thanks to Luddism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories.
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Consider this a PSA for aspiring biohackers: gene therapy does not work if you literally drink the genes.
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The first nanoweapons in the war on cancer are finally here and they're showing a lot of promise.
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Not all supplements are bad for you, but not all of them are good or effective either. But we do have an idea which ones are better than others...
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Still not grasping the impact of anti-vaccination activists, the media is treating them as bold, outspoken advocates for a different view, not the public health menaces they are.
