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psychedelics FDA expands access to MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD Mark Frauenfelder

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medicine Ebola is now a treatable disease Seamus Bellamy

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Science More promising news about phages, the parasites that prey on parasites Cory Doctorow

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