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Jimmy Sullivan prepared for his job as a bricklayer the same way every morning for years: injecting a shot of heroin before leaving his car. The first time he overdosed on the job, in 2013 at a Virginia construction site, a co-worker who is his…

This article was reported and written in a collaboration with ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization. An artificial intelligence start-up founded by three insiders at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center debuted with…

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email Emmy Award-winning actor Alan Alda is best known for his 11 seasons on MASH as Dr. Hawkeye Pierce. Now he's teaching health-care professionals, scientists and everyone else how to communicate better…

Most doctors are very good at talking to the patient, but not so good at talking with them Hearing the doctor say, “I'm sorry, it's not good news: it's cancer,” is almost always devastating and for those who hear it life is seldom the…

The US Senate has passed S. 2554, the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act, which was a bill introduced by Sen. Collins (R-ME) that would prohibit insurers and prescription benefit managers from using gag clauses by health insurers and pharmacy…