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Too many people take too many pills
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Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019)
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The quiet cost of family caregiving
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Vets today are like doctors yesterday
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Frequently asked questions about your craniotomy (2020)
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Parental alienation and the unregulated experts shattering children’s lives
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Heartbeats and heart attacks (2016)
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Long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’
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Employee’s unwanted birthday party nets him $450k after lawsuit
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Chronic lower back pain linked to atrophy in pain-related brain regions
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Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do
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Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults
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A neuroscientist prepares for death
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Pioneering work that has changed our understanding of migraines
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Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types
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Chiropractors are bullshit
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Life on the inside as a ‘locked-in’ patient
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Ex-Theranos CEO Holmes puts mental state at issue
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Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
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Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Hallucinations and Delirium
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A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (1997)
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21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands
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Post-intensive care syndrome results from continuous inflammation
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The Navy SEAL and His Doctor: An experimental brain treatment blows up two lives
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Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients
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Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress'
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The case for being a medical conservative
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Nursing Homes in the US Overmedicate People with Dementia (2018)
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A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's
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Dr Sarah E. Hill: ‘A blind spot about how the pill influences women’s brains’
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Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?
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Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
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Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
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A new book critiques medicine
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Study suggests surgery alternative for rotator cuff pain: push-ups, pull-ups
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MOVE an injury not RICE (2017)
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What Is Suspension Trauma a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome?
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A woman who doesn't feel pain
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Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
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How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know
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Some unexplained physical symptoms may be caused by unresolved emotional trauma
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On Overcoming Pain
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Recovering Emotions After 24 Years on Antidepressants
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I was told I would become quadriplegic
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The terrorist inside my husband's brain (2016)
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To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine
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Chiropractors are bullshit
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Deep Patient Predicts Patients Future from Health Records
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How Pushing to Extremes Led an Amateur Cyclist to Ventricular Tachycardia
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Bias in the ER
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Long-winded speech could be early sign of Alzheimer's disease, says study
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The Heroism of Incremental Care
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Every Body Goes Haywire
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The terrorist inside my husband's brain
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Why paper cuts hurts so much
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The perils of being your own doctor
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When the Body Attacks the Mind
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Doctors used an ER patient's FitBit data to justify electrical cardioversion
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The Lawlessness of Medicine
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What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside
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A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
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A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
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Anatomy of Error: A surgeon remembers his mistakes
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Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
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A woman who can't feel fear
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Most MS Patients Who Got Stem Cell Transplants Still in Remission Years Later
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What Developing Acute Schizophrenia Feels Like
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The Fight (2012)
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'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result
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The Fight
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Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors
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Getting shot by a handgun
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On Depression & Getting Help
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Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er
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Out of Sync: Puberty at age 9
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Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
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A woman who can smell Parkinson's is inspiring research into diagnosis (2020)
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When children become caregivers, who cares for them?
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