Medicine

ADHD meds like Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, and Vyvanse have been called "smart pills" for their ability to bestow superhuman powers of concentration. In the U.S. especially, where about 11 percent of schoolchildren have an ADHD diagnosis, parents and teachers embrace the drugs as a way to get kids to sit still and pay attention.

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The Painful Politics of Painkillers

Opioids are deadlier than ever, but research into cannabis is still taboo

Opioids are deadlier than ever, but research into cannabis is still taboo.

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Reforming health-care costs, it turns out, doesn't have much to do with reforming health-care spending. 

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The Sequester's Dumbest Cut

Childhood vaccinations don't just save lives; they save money too

Of all the sequestration pink slips about to be handed down from Washington, the one for programs to vaccinate children seems particularly shortsighted. Sure, there are several other candidates for worst idea ever, from education cuts to defense cuts. But with childhood vaccinations, we have not only the emotional tug (our darling babies!) but also financial reality: Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective preventative strategies in health care, saving billions of dollars a year.

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When orthopedic surgeons call themselves “carpenters,”what do they mean?

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Flu Shots in the Firehouse

How to Survive Our Doctor Shortage

In Oakland, firefighters can give you vaccinations—and may soon offer counseling about things like diabetes and asthma. Is this the future of medicine?

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Cahalan understands her memoir as an illumination of absence more than an act of retrospection.

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Tom Koch, a medical geographer, demonstrates how maps were critical to epidemiology long before the germ theory of disease was ever uttered, let alone

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Are You Dead Yet?

In The Undead, Dick Teresi abdicates his role as an objective narrator. He accuses the medical profession of sloppiness in the way it determines death

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Moral outrage over the tobacco industry’s century-long (and counting) merchandising of death colors every word of Golden Holocaust, from the title pag

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