“American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
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The Mayday Call: How One Death at Sea Transformed a Fishing Fleet
“The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another.”
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Coercive Care
“How doctors are pressuring sickle cell patients into unwanted sterilizations.”
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Care, Out of the Closet
“LGBTQ elders face discrimination in underfunded nursing homes.”
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Fentanyl: The Portrait of a Mass Murderer
“A cheap, white powder—50 times more powerful than heroin—which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere.”
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She Was Told Her Twin Sons Wouldn’t Survive. Texas Law Made Her Give Birth Anyway.
“Miranda Michel, 26, couldn’t leave the state for an abortion. But she also couldn’t bear the idea of carrying a nonviable pregnancy to term.”
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“What Price Was My Father’s Life Worth?”
“Right-wing doctors are still peddling dubious COVID drugs.”
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Conspiracy Theorists Made Tiffany Dover into An Anti-Vaccine Icon. She’s Finally Ready to Talk About It.
“The Tennessee nurse stayed quiet in hopes that her silence would quiet false claims of her death. Now, she says it only hurt.”
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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage Plans Use Algorithms to Cut Off Care for Seniors in Need
“For all of AI’s power to crunch data, insurers with huge financial interests are leveraging it to help make life-altering decisions with little independent oversight.”