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To Make Autonomous Vehicles Safe, We Have to Rethink "Autonomous" and "Safe"
Coming generations of AVs won’t be risk-free in all circumstances, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing
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Speaking Science to Power
A statement released by 317 National Academy of Sciences members challenges the widespread dismissal of science and scientific understanding by the Trump administration
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Journalists Offer Sharply Divergent Views of Brain Implants for Depression
One reporter emphasizes the promise of an experimental treatment, another the peril
Chemotherapy without Pills or Needles
A promising new class of lung-cancer therapies can simply be inhaled, minimizing the side effects to other, healthy organs
The Public Doesn't Take Flu Seriously Enough
A century after the catastrophic pandemic of 1918, too many people still aren’t getting vaccinated
Expanding Global Access to Essential Heart Medications
Modernizing the World Health Organization's official list of vital medications
Change Your Mind-Set, Reduce Your Chronic Pain
Psychological approaches can help control the agony and lessen the need for drugs
Nature: Closer Than It Seems
Fighting the stigma that the outdoors is hard to reach, dangerous and best experienced alone
The Season Finale of This Is Us Offers an Important Public Health Lesson
It made the concept and consequences of "social determinants of health" come alive
We Need to Talk More about Physician Burnout
Addressing it might call for the foundation of a new culture in medicine that allows for the space, connection and inspiration required for all clinicians to be healers
Ticks Have a Mouth Full of Hooks to Hang On
Their barbs help them burrow in for a three-day feast of blood
To Fight Tuberculosis in the Global South, Look to Apple as a Model
The same strategies that lead to better gadgets could also lead to more effective treatments
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