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Technology

Sloan Kettering's cozy deal with start-up ignites a new uproar | ProPublica

A for-profit venture with exclusive rights to use the cancer center's vast archive of tissue slides has generated concerns among pathologists at the hospital, as well as experts in nonprofit law and corporate governance.

Pharmaceuticals

Over four decades, an 'inexorable' epidemic of drug overdoses reveals its inner secrets | The Los Angeles Times

Americans have long construed drugs of abuse as choices. Poor choices that can cost users their lives, to be sure, but choices nonetheless. But what if drugs of abuse are more like predators atop a nationwide ecosystem of potential prey?

Top Trump health official calls on Congress to do more on drug pricing | STAT

A top U.S. health official on Thursday called on lawmakers in Congress to do more to help bring down drug prices, saying that the Trump administration had "given them a lot of opportunities to step in here."

Safety, quality and clinical practice

Daytime sleepiness tied to brain changes of Alzheimer's | The New York Times

Men and women who reported feeling sleepy during the day had higher levels of brain plaques.

Most hospital ERs won't treat your addiction. These will. | Pew Charitable Trusts

Despite a raging drug overdose epidemic that is killing nearly 200 Americans every day and sending thousands more to emergency rooms, the vast majority of the nation's more than 5,500 hospitals have so far avoided offering any form of addiction medicine to emergency patients.