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Cancer death rates have fallen ten per cent in five years across the US despite diagnoses staying level — in a sign America is getting better at treating the disease. The American Cancer Society said survival rates 'accelerated' from 2015 to 2019, rising by more than 5 per cent a year — the fastest in two decades. There are rises …
Nearly two years ago, I found myself standing in a humid, grimy motel room in Pennsylvania, talking to opioid addicts about what drove them to their addictions. They were, in retrospect, all victims of what public health experts call "diseases of despair" —specifically, medical conditions that are often found in groups that feel despair due to a bleak economic or …