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As overdose deaths skyrocket in Charlotte’s Black and brown communities, advocates work on overcoming shame and stigma.

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People with experimental brain implants often turn to the treatment as a last resort, hoping to improve their health when everything else has failed ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

Building on a term coined by physician and bioethicist Robert Macauley in 2005, we might call this tradition “the Hippocratic ...