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October 5, 2024
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Exclusive: Health care CEOs dialed back their pay in 2023. They still made $3.5 billion

It was a rough year for health care stocks. But even in a down year, the median health care CEO made 51 times the median American household income, with the biggest names in health care bringing in $3.5 billion combined last year. Read more.

By Bob Herman, J. Emory Parker, Lizzy Lawrence, Tara Bannow, and Mohana Ravindranath 



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New analysis reveals postpartum sterilization rates are higher among U.S. women with sickle cell

"You have to start thinking, what are the systemic reasons why we are seeing these kinds of disparities?" said Kim Mutcherson, a bioethicist and professor of law at Rutgers University. Read more.

By Eric Boodman


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Scientists may have found the reason why people with schizophrenia hear voices

People with schizophrenia often "hear" voices and sounds even when there are none — up to 80% of people with the mental illness have auditory hallucinations. But nobody had been able to fully explain the mechanisms behind this phenomenon until now. Read more.

By Timmy Broderick

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