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How medicine got too good for its own good

4 April 2018

We’re detecting problems too early and convincing healthy people they’re sick – it’s time to rethink medical diagnosis, says physician H. Gilbert Welch

The doctor who took on big pharma to stem the US opioid epidemic

10 January 2018

When Andrew Kolodny raised the alarm over the dangerously addictive properties of prescribed opioids, he became both a hero and a figure of hate

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How medicine got too good for its own good

The doctor who took on big pharma to stem the US opioid epidemic

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