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Hannah Docter-Loeb

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Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S.

Sarah Loguen Fraser was the daughter of abolitionists and one of the first African American female doctors trained after the Civil War.

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Precision Medicine Has Been Overhyped

Hannah Docter-Loeb

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Why Do Airplane Flights Cause Digestive Problems?

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

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Flesh-Eating Bacteria Infections Are on the Rise in the U.S. Here’s How to Stay Safe

Bill Sullivan and The Conversation

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Tara Haelle

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Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban ‘Heat Islands’

Melba Newsome

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More People Die from Venomous Snakebites Each Year Than Have Ever Died from Ebola

Cassandra Willyard

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Ashli Blow

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Cultured meat, grown from real animal cells, will soon be available in restaurants in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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