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Study: Why The Mediterranean Diet Works to Prevent Heart Disease

By Barbara Feder Ostrov

Why the Mediterranean diet keeps hearts healthy, a better way to predict heart attacks, and good news about tuberculosis, plus more from our Top 5 Today.

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Study: Even Tiny Amounts of Fracking Chemicals Can Harm Health

By Barbara Feder Ostrov

Fracking's health dangers, a Supreme Court health reform video primer, cancer prevention and daily aspirin, and more from our Top 5 Today.

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Report: Kids' Medication Poisonings Rise Sharply

By Barbara Feder Ostrov

Preventable child poisonings on the rise, a Republican bid to revamp Medicare and Medicaid, new hope for easing altitude sickness and more from our Daily Briefing.

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Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Now OK, Says Federal Appeals Court

By Barbara Feder Ostrov

A victory for anti-smoking advocates, revving up for the Supremes and health reform, and silence on cancer clusters in Illinois, plus more from our Top 5 Today news roundup.

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Pennsylvania Fracking Chemical Disclosure Law Muzzles State’s Doctors

By Barbara Feder Ostrov

A doctors' gag order over fracking chemicals, good news on obesity prevention, and a rapping global health expert turned World Bank leader, plus more from our Top 5 Today.

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The nation’s overdose epidemic has entered a devastating new phase. Drugs laced with fentanyl and even more poisonous synthetics have flooded the streets, as the crisis spreads well beyond the rural, largely white communities that initially drew attention. The death rate is escalating twice as fast among Black people than among white people. This webinar will give journalists deep insights, fresh story ideas and practical tips for covering an epidemic that killed more than 107,000 people in the U.S. last year. Sign-up here!

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