Decoder: Can you trust what’s on the medicine label?
Natural and herbal medicines are much cheaper than prescription pills. But whether they work and are safe is another story.
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Decoder: Can you trust what’s on the medicine label?
Natural and herbal medicines are much cheaper than prescription pills. But whether they work and are safe is another story.
Decoder Replay: Is the United States aging out of democracy?
For 250 years, much of the world has looked at the United States as the model democracy. Is that still the case?
Decoder Replay: Why welcome a poke in the arm?
Anti-vaxxers see a dark conspiracy around vaccines. But the reality is that for millions of people globally, vaccines are the life-saving miracle of science.
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As we approach the coming year, let’s look back on the past year and see that it wasn’t all gloom and doom.
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