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The Nasty, Scary World of Emerging Tick-Borne Disease
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding.
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Destroying a Bridge to Somewhere
Infrastructure is just another big word invented by tax-and-spend liberals.
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What Happened After Cairo? Assessing 20 Years of Work on “Population and Development“
Over the last 20 years, a billion people have moved out of extreme poverty, literacy rates in some of the world's least developed countries are on the rise, life …
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For-Profit Insanity Is Killing Americans
Despite what you might hear on Fox So-Called News, Obamacare really is working.
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Obamacare
State and Local Pension Funds Face a Shortfall Equal to 0.3 Percent of GDP
Turning over the pension plan to insurance companies will almost certainly raise the fees collected by the financial industry.
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A New Way Insurers Are Shifting Costs to the Sick
By charging higher prices for generic drugs that treat certain illness, health insurers may be violating the spirit of the Affordable Care Act, which bans discrimination against those with …
Dr. Cart Hart’s TED Talk Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs
Award-winning author of “High Price” shares insights from his remarkable personal journey and career as a scientist.
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The Next Round of an Unwinnable War Beckons
Bombing raids on Islamic State targets in Iraq may just make things worse.
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Fund Cancer Research to Keep Breakthroughs Coming
If Americans do not want decades of medical progression to reverse, they must urge Congress to change course quickly.