Worth your time

What happened when West Virginia's capital city shut down its syringe exchange program? To many public health experts, the result was predictable: a surge in new HIV infections in nearby Huntington, W.V., detailed in Mother Jones. — Lev Facher
 
In case you missed ALL the attacks on pharma at last week’s doubleheader of a debate, STAT rounded up the most important moments. — Erin Mershon
 
ProPublica has an eye-opening report on a nonprofit hospital that has sued more than 8,000 patients for uncollected medical bills in the last five years, and the ethical questions that arise when hospitals meant to treat the poor sue patients with no means to pay. — Nicholas Florko