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US telehealth start-ups are booming – they may put patients at risk

A slew of telehealth startups in the US market themselves as convenient ways to access healthcare, but many are unregulated, raising concerns about patient privacy and unnecessary drug prescriptions

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Huge rise in US overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants

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Environment

Engineers are building the first bridge over a moving rock glacier

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Environment

Just 12 per cent of people eat half of the beef consumed in the US

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Appetite for mind-altering substances is booming among US adults

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Binge drinking hits record high among adults 35 to 50 years old in US

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First RSV treatment for infants and children approved in US

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Technology

Benjamin Franklin put early anti-counterfeit measures in paper money

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First over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the US

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First cell therapy for type 1 diabetes approved for use in the US

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new therapy for type 1 diabetes in which people with the condition receive donor pancreatic cells capable of producing insulin

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What we know so far about the malaria cases in Florida and Texas

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World’s first RSV vaccine approved in the US for older adults

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Why expanding access to Narcan in the US won’t solve the opioid crisis

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Life

Parasite from cat faeces killed four sea otters in California

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