Over two years, more than 1,000 medical crowdfunding campaigns raised nearly $7 million for scientifically unsupported or potentially dangerous treatments, according to a new research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The big just keep getting bigger in the U.S. health care system.

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According to survey data from more than 2,100 adults, one-quarter of Americans who have been stalked never told anyone about it. 

The finding comes from a study about stalking published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology in July 2018.

Eugene Scott is a longtime political reporter who writes about identity politics for the Washington Post’s The Fix. Before joining the Post in 2017, he covered breaking news at CNN Politics. And prior to that, he reported on local politics for the Arizona Republic, Kansas City Star and Charlotte Observer.

“Racially conservative” attitudes were the primary reason white Southerners abandoned the Democratic Party after party leaders began to advocate for civil rights legislation during the last half of the 20^th century, finds a new study from researchers at Princeton and Yale universities.