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On Thursday, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel decided that the tobacco supergiant Philip Morris should not be able to claim its new smokeless tobacco device IQOS is safer than smoking. IQOS, which is pen-shaped and comes with an…
Even in 2018, Wilder Penfield’s approach to treating epilepsy seems like something out of a science fiction movie. Penfield — the celebrated Canadian-American neurosurgeon whose 127th birthday is celebrated today in a Google Doodle — pioneered the technique of removing…
American cities are slowly rallying around a new response to the opioid epidemic: safe spaces for using heroin. The concept recently gained traction in Philadelphia, where officials announced this week that they intend to open such a space, known as…
Jesse Wintermute, a thirty-two-year-old masseur who specializes in lower-back pain, was recently hired to work a house party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He didn’t know until he arrived, with a portable massage table in tow, that it was a party to…
In 1947, a group of scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project—America’s crash wartime effort to manufacture an atom bomb during the Second World War—unveiled what it called the “Doomsday Clock” to graphically convey their concern over the danger posed by…
Donald Trump’s promise of “a deal of the century” to end the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is getting legs. After a year of discussions led by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the main elements of the president’s design are…
