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DIGITAL HEALTH

Finding

New Cures

in Old Drugs

By TIERNAN RAY

Scientists are using

A.I. to turn combina-

tions of existing drugs

into promising new

therapies. Can they

unclog Big Pharma’s

pipeline?

DIGITAL HEALTH

Death by a

Thousand

Clicks

By ERIK A FRY

and FRED SCHULTE

The U.S. government

claimed that electronic

health records would

lead to safer, cheaper

health care: 10 years

and $36 billion later,

the system is a mess.

About

Face

By MICHAL LEV-RAM

Facebook makes

billions helping adver-

tisers reach its users.

Now that strategy is

under fire. Fortune’s

inside look at an

impossible dilemma.

Racing in

the Streets

By CL AY CHANDLER

ON THE NEWSSTAND

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FREDERIC LEGRAND—

COMEO/SHUTTERSTOCK;

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Singapore’s Grab and

Indonesia’s Go-Jek

started out as scrappy

taxi ventures. Now

they’re expanding

services—and jockey-

ing to offer the top

“super-app” in South-

east Asia.

An A.I.-built

map tracks the

progression of CMT,

a neurodegener-

ative disease.

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