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Confusing and high bills for cancer patients add to anxiety and suffering

  • Written by Mary Politi, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
Having cancer is bad enough, and dealing with the costs and confusion of billing systems makes things harder.KieferPix/Shutterstock.com

Weeks after my father passed away from cancer in 2010, my newly widowed mother received a bill for US$11,000.

Insurance retroactively denied a submitted claim for one of his last chemotherapy treatments, claiming...

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New diagnostic test for malaria uses spit, not blood

  • Written by Rhoel David Ramos Dinglasan, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases & Director, CDC Southeastern Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases, University of Florida
Sub-Saharan Africa bears the burden of the world's malaria cases.Franco Volpato/Shutterstock.com

“Spit here, please.”

Will this become the instruction we receive upon entering clinics, schools, apothecaries and ports of entry throughout the globe?

One of the main factors enabling the continued transmission of malaria are individuals who...

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Time for a Manhattan Project on Alzheimer’s

  • Written by Marc Diamond, Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Figuring out the pieces to the Alzheimer's puzzle.Naeblys/Shutterstock.com

Imagine if Alzheimer’s was treated like other common diseases. Instead of worrying about the prospect of slowly losing your memory, you might get a series of shots during middle age to prevent the onset of this neurological nightmare, just as we do to reduce the risk...

Read more: Time for a Manhattan Project on Alzheimer’s

Drinkers prefer Big Beer keeps its hands off their local craft brews

  • Written by Jarrett Hart, Ph.D. Student of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis

Craft beer’s popularity has exploded in the U.S. in recent decades, leading to soaring production and the creation of thousands of new breweries.

Much of that growth has come at the expense of traditional brewing giants like Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors.

So, naturally, these macro brewers have been trying to get a piece of the action...

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Russian influence operations extend into Egypt

  • Written by Nathaniel Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Arabic, George Mason University
The presidents of Russia and Egypt.AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool

One of the oldest running daily news organizations in the Arab world, Cairo-based Al-Ahram, publishes stories from Sputnik, a propaganda arm of the Russian government.

As part of a 2015 agreement between Al-Ahram and Rossiya Segodnya, Russia’s government-owned news giant, Sputnik...

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Sex robots are here, but laws aren't keeping up with the ethical and privacy issues they raise

  • Written by Francis X. Shen, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota

The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind?

From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation about the future of sex and relationships. Behind the headlines, a number of companies are currently developing robots designed to provide humans with companionship and...

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The shutdown: Drowning government in the bathtub

  • Written by William E. Nelson, Professor of Law, New York University

In a Wall Street Journal interview three days after reopening the government, President Trump handicapped the odds of a border wall settlement.

“I personally think it’s less than 50-50,” he said, calling another shutdown “certainly an option.”

Shuttering the government for the third time since Trump took office remains...

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When newspapers close, voters become more partisan

  • Written by Joshua P. Darr, Assistant Professor of Political Communication, Louisiana State University
Local newspapers keep readers' interest on local politics.Shutterstock/Bridget McPherson

It seems impossible to ignore national politics today. The stream of stories about the president and Congress is endless. Whether online, in print or on television, it has never been easier to follow the action.

National news outlets are adapting well to this...

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Latest allegations of sexual assault show how the legal system discourages victims from coming forward

  • Written by Alesha Durfee, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
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Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax is refusing to resign after denying charges by two women who have said that he sexually assaulted them.

The first woman to come forward was Vanessa Tyson, a politics professor at Scripps College. She initially contacted The Washington Post after Fairfax’s election in December 2017,...

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Regenerative agriculture can make farmers stewards of the land again

  • Written by Stephanie Anderson, Instructor of English, Florida Atlantic University
Rock Hills Ranch in South Dakota uses managed grazing techniques to maintain healthy, diverse plant communities in its pastures.Lars Ploughmann, CC BY-SA

For years, “sustainable” has been the buzzword in conversations about agriculture. If farmers and ranchers could slow or stop further damage to land and water, the thinking went, that...

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  10. How bankruptcy can help USA Gymnastics and the Boy Scouts compensate more survivors
  11. Florence Knoll Bassett's mid-century design diplomacy
  12. A revolution in a sentence – the future of human spaceflight in America
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  14. López Obrador clashes with courts after vowing 'poverty' for Mexican government
  15. What is the Great Commission and why is it so controversial?
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  19. Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
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  21. Did academia kill jazz?
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  23. Journalism needs an audience to survive, but isn't sure how to earn its loyalty
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  25. Why stop at plastic bags and straws? The case for a global treaty banning most single-use plastics
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  28. Amazon HQ2: Texas experience shows why New Yorkers should be skeptical
  29. Democrats court rural Southern voters with Stacey Abrams' State of the Union response
  30. Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new generation of labor activists
  31. Grand Canyon National Park turns 100: How a place once called 'valueless' became grand
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  33. Foreign language classes becoming more scarce
  34. Violence and killings haven't stopped in Colombia despite landmark peace deal
  35. Autocracies that look like democracies are a threat across the globe
  36. Why do people still use fax machines?
  37. The politics of the periodic table – who gets the credit and why
  38. Immigration, legislation, investigation and child poverty: 4 scholars respond to Trump's State of the Union
  39. Should we judge people for their past moral failings?
  40. People don't trust blockchain systems – is regulation a way to help?
  41. Yellow vest protests erupt in Iraq, Bulgaria and beyond – but don't expect a 'yellow wave'
  42. Stem cell treatments for arthritic knees are unproven, expensive and potentially dangerous
  43. Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans
  44. Restorative practices may not be the solution, but neither are suspensions
  45. African-Americans' economic setbacks from the Great Recession are ongoing – and could be repeated
  46. Why do so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana?
  47. A nuclear treaty between Russia and the US is falling apart – can it be saved?
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