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Why does the United States spend so much more on healthcare than other wealthy countries? Harvard professor John McDonough traces part of the answer to decades of policy change, consolidation and growing commercial influence.
Screening newborns for cancer risk Blood samples routinely collected at birth could be used for genetic testing, potentially helping 1,000 children a year, st...
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Photo by Antonia Prescott Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat. Excerpt from evolutionary biologist’s new book ‘Fed...
George Usmanov traverses Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin. Photo by Chad Ament Part grueling race, part field study Max Larkin Harvard Staff Writer Au...