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Costly Alzheimer's treatment is spreading around the world, with virtually no science to back it up

By Jonathan Moens

Storz Medical

Around 85 clinics across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the U.S. have begun offering transcranial pulse stimulation for Alzheimer's.

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'Nobody wants to mess this up': A WHO official weighs in on the challenges of responding to monkeypox

By Helen Branswell

NIAID

Maria Van Kerkhove says the WHO has learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic about communicating with the public on monkeypox.

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STAT+: Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz on lessons learned, venture capital, and shutting down his own business

By Matthew Herper

STAT

In an interview at STAT's Health Tech Summit, Shultz also spoke about venture capital and shutting down his own business.

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STAT+: Justice Department says sweeping lab test fraud in Texas involved dozens of doctors and front companies

By Tara Bannow

Adobe

A DOJ complaint describes a sweeping fraud scheme in Texas involving dozens of doctors and front companies.

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STAT+: Doctors in Arizona are trying to rewrite the surprise billing law to boost their own pay

By Bob Herman

Molly Ferguson for STAT

Doctors in Arizona drafted a state ballot measure that would drastically tilt the scales in their favor during billing negotiations.

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Opinion: Listen: Covid-19 is leaving millions of orphaned children behind

By Patrick Skerrett

More than 10.5 million children have become orphans because of Covid-19. The loss of a parent or other caregiver can reverberate for years.

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Four neuroscientists win Kavli Prize for discovering genes behind serious brain disorders

By Elizabeth Cooney

Adobe

The prize honors arduous work undertaken long before sequencing of the human genome accelerated investigating what goes wrong in the brain.

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Opinion: Kids and Covid-19: The urgency of equity should outweigh the urgency of normal

By Octavio N. Martinez, Jr.

Jon Cherry/Getty Images

The Urgency of Normal toolkit disregards the pandemic's effects on children from minoritized and economically disadvantaged communities.

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