Health
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What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing
For weeks now, as COVID-19 cases have ticked upward in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, pundits and political leaders have offered…
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No, They Didn’t Find the Cause of SIDS
Sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, “will be a thing of the past,” according to Carmel Harrington, a sleep researcher…
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We’ve Never Been Good at Feeding Babies
Keeping an infant fed is a precarious task in the best of circumstances, and for many American parents, the circumstances…
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Is a Common Virus Suddenly Causing Liver Failure in Kids?
Last October, a young girl with severe and unusual liver failure was admitted to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Her…
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The U.S. Is About to Make a Big Gamble on Our Next COVID Winter
Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, the spring weather’s just barely warming, but regulators in the United States are already…
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Can Anyone Out-Plan a Pandemic?
In this, the season of Bill Gates’s atonement, the billionaire is willing to acknowledge that things don’t always turn out…
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Women’s Health Month Series: Annual Screenings
To recognize women’s health throughout the month of May, Dignity Health Medical Groups will be sharing insight from four physicians…
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The Promising Treatment for Long COVID We’re Not Even Trying
Updated at 2:55 p.m. on May 10, 2022 In the two years since she caught the coronavirus, 38-year-old Jessica McGovern…
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What Did Medieval Peasants Know?
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read…
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Paxlovid Mouth Is Real—And Gross
More than two years into this pandemic, we finally have an antiviral treatment that works pretty darn well. Paxlovid cuts…
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