The Boston premiere of the film "Concussion,” a dramatized story of how a real-life doctor exposed rampant brain damage among former NFL players, drew gasps, praise — and a bit of snoring — at a packed theater last night. Dr. Scott Weisberg, who suffers from traumatic brain injury from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, saw the film with nine fellow survivors. He said the movie did a good job showing "how difficult it is to navigate [the medical system] with a hidden and invisible injury."

"They did a really good job of dramatizing the science," Deborah Lotterman, who works for a medical advertising firm in Boston, told me. But (spoiler alert) one part kept bothering her: The scene where one of the characters has a miscarriage, and her husband implies it's his fault for bringing her stress. "Scientifically, there's no evidence that stress would cause miscarriage," she noted. As he walked out with his mom and dad, 12-year-old Evan Roth, who plays for Swampscott Youth Football in Massachusetts, uttered just the words the NFL does not want to hear: "It makes me question if I really should play football, even though I love the game."

Catch up on "High Impact," the STAT series about concussions, here.

Whether it’s MTV teen pregnancy shows, long-lasting contraception, or sex-ed lessons, something is working: Teen birth rates dropped a whopping 9 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to a new report published today by the National Center for Health Statistics. That builds on a dramatic decline since 1991.

"It’s a true national success story on an issue that many once considered intractable and unsolvable,” Bill Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy told me. My story is here. 

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The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved its 45th drug of the year. That's the most approvals since 1996. The drug, Zurampic, treats high levels of uric acid in the blood associated with gout. The approval came amid efforts in Congress to speed up the FDA approval process even more.

The White House on Tuesday announced the latest batch of winners for the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Here's a peek at three of the medalists: 

• Mary-Claire King, a geneticist at the University of Washington, discovered the breast cancer gene BRCA1.
• Rakesh Jain, a biologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, showed how cancer drugs like Avastin work to curb tumor growth.
• Stanley Falkow, a microbiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine, discovered how bacteria spread antibiotic resistance by sharing their genes.