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BRAD HOLLAND
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Flying this summer? Do you feel like this picture when you're stuck on a long-haul flight?
Airlines and scientists are studying the effects of spending 20 hours or more in an arid cabin at high altitude. They’re beginning to change everything from food service to cabin lighting and temperature to combat dehydration, jet lag and the sedentary effects of being belted into a seat for a day binge-watching movies, Scott McCartney reports in his Middle Seat column that looks at the health effects of flying to the other side of the world.
If you have tips for avoiding jet lag on long-haul flights, share them here.
– Stefanie Ilgenfritz, Health & Science Bureau Chief, WSJ
Reach me at stefanie.ilgenfritz@wsj.com or Twitter: @stefaniei
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IBM Has a Watson Dilemma: Six years and billions of dollars into IBM's effort to make its Watson AI system into a force against cancer, the promise has yet to be fulfilled. Daniela Hernandez and Ted Greenwald report that more than a dozen IBM partners and clients have halted or shrunk Watson’s oncology-related projects, and Watson cancer applications have had limited impact on patients.
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Trump Calls on Justice to Sue Opioid Firms. In a cabinet meeting at the White House, the president asked the Attorney General to bring federal lawsuits against companies supplying opioids, separate from joining state litigation against drugmakers. Drug overdose deaths soared to more than 72,000 in 2017, according to new, preliminary data from the CDC.
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Free Medical School. New York University will cover tuition for all its medical students regardless of their financial situation, a first among the nation’s major medical schools and an attempt to expand career options for graduates who won’t be saddled with six-figure debt, Melissa Korn reports.
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Maternal Health Risk. The rates of heart-related problems in women before and after childbirth have increased in the U.S., which may be contributing to a rise in the country’s maternal mortality rate, Sumathi Reddy reports in her Your Health column.
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A Sisterhood of Nurses. More than 40 years ago, six Filipino nurses arrived in the U.S. to launch their nursing careers, and have supported one another through sea changes in the medical field as well as personal joys and sorrows. The Philippines has been an incubator for nurses. Lucette Lagnado has their story.
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$450,000 |
Annual list price for the average patient for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' new RNA-interference drug, Onpattro. (Read more)
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FDA Approves Teva's Generic Version of EpiPen Injector (Read more)
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Icahn Backs Down on Cigna-Express Scripts Deal (Read more)
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France Takes on Cellphone Addiction With a Ban in Schools (Read more)
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“Cardiovascular disease and heart attacks are a major cause of maternal death.”
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LEAVE THIS BOX EMPTY |
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