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Health Apr 11

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life was a study in destructive alcoholism

By Dr. Howard Markel

‘Deaths of despair’ are cutting life short for some white Americans

In spite of decades of advancements in health care, diet and safety, white Americans are now living shorter lives, a trend that has surprised experts. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports out of Maysville, Kentucky, an area struggling with an increase…

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Mimicking real-life experience for alcoholics, NIH transforms lab into a bar to test treatment

WASHINGTON -- The tequila sure looks real, so do the beer taps. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing a possible new treatment to help heavy drinkers cut back -- using a replica of a…

By Lauren Neergaard

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