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New C.D.C. guidelines on opioids like Percocet are likely to have sweeping effects on the practice of medicine.Credit Nathan Griffith/Corbis

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Addyi, the new female libido drug, sometimes known as the “female Viagra.”Credit Allen G. Breed/Associated Press

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