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Medical Marijuana’s ‘Catch-22’: Federal Limits On Research Hinder Patients’...

By the time Ann Marie Owen turned to marijuana to treat her pain, she was struggling to walk and talk. She also hallucinated. For four years, her doctor prescribed the 61-year-old a wide range of...

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FDA Launches Criminal Investigation Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research

[UPDATED at 11:45 a.m. ET on April 16] The Food and Drug Administration has launched a criminal investigation into research by a Southern Illinois University professor who injected people with his...

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1 In 5 Immigrant Children Detained During ‘Zero Tolerance’ Border Policy Are...

[UPDATED at 3:55 p.m. ET] The Trump administration has detained 2,322 children 12 years old or younger amid its border crackdown, a Department of Health and Human Services official told Kaiser Health...

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Uno de cada 5 niños detenidos en la frontera tiene menos de 13 años

La administración Trump ha detenido a 2,322 menores de 13 años en medio de las acciones en la frontera, dijo el miércoles 20 de junio un funcionario del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS)...

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Immigrant Families Placed In Detention Centers Face Health Care Challenges

The White House’s plan to indefinitely detain immigrant families together threatens the care of young children, experts worry, by placing them with an agency with little experience in handling such...

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Religious Conservatives’ Ties To Trump Officials Pay Off In AIDS Policies,...

Evangelical activist Shepherd Smith has spent more than three decades cultivating relationships with leading AIDS researchers and policymakers to promote abstinence-only sex education. Those...

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A ‘Fountain Of Youth’ Pill? Sure, If You’re A Mouse.

Renowned Harvard University geneticist David Sinclair recently made a startling assertion: Scientific data shows he has knocked more than two decades off his biological age. What’s the 49-year-old’s...

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¿La fuente de la juventud en una píldora? Sí, si eres un ratón

El renombrado genetista de la Universidad de Harvard, David Sinclair, recientemente hizo una aseveración sorprendente: datos científicos muestran que ha eliminado más de dos décadas de su edad...

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Patients Experiment With Prescription Drugs To Fight Aging

Dr. Alan Green’s patients travel from around the country to his tiny practice in Queens, N.Y., lured by the prospect of longer lives. Over the past two years, more than 200 patients have flocked to see...

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Pacientes experimentan con drogas recetadas para luchar contra la vejez

Los pacientes del doctor Alan Green viajan desde todo el país a su pequeño consultorio en Queens, Nueva York, atraídos por la esperanza de vivir más. En los últimos dos años, más de 200 pacientes han...

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