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Worth reading: Planned Parenthood, needle exchange policy, and Oliver Sacks

lborkowski | September 14, 2015

A few of the recent pieces I've liked: Sara Rosenbaum at the Health Affairs Blog: Planned Parenthood, Community Health Centers, And Women’s Health: Getting The Facts Right Laura Ungar at USA Today: Study: Needle exchange policy prevented HIV Maryn McKenna at Phenomena: Germination: Tickborne Diseases: Widespread, Serious, and Taking us by Surprise Elissa Strauss at Longreads: The Lost Summer Oliver Sacks's opinion piece "My Periodic Table" appeared in the New York Times in July, just weeks before he died of cancer. Since then, past writing by and about him has gained attention. I enjoyed…

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