A New Turn in the Fight Over Masks
For many Americans, wearing a mask has become a relic. But fighting about masks, it seems, has not. Masking has...
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The Future of Long COVID
In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a...
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Why Mississippi, a Covid Hot Spot, Left Millions in Pandemic...
Stop-and-go federal funding floods public health agencies with cash during crises but starves them of funds afterward. The coronavirus pandemic...
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Bernie Sanders Has a New Role. It Could Be His...
After two unsuccessful runs for the presidency, the Vermont senator now leads the Senate health committee, a job that gives...
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Kisses, Crushes and Marriage Proposals: Wait, Aren’t You Only 6...
Idealizing a boyfriend-girlfriend dynamic can suggest that “these relationships are critical to being a complete person and to being happy,”...
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Workers Fighting America’s Overdose Crisis Are ‘Hanging by a Thread’
OSCEOLA, Iowa — So many of Deborah Krauss’s friends and neighbors have died of drug overdoses during the pandemic that...
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When a ‘Miracle’ Drug Is Out of Reach
Trikafta’s U.S. list price is over $322,000 a year. That is nearly 60 times the annual salary of a minimum...
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N.I.H. Leader Rebuts Covid Lab Leak Theory at House Hearing
Now in the majority, House Republicans are eager to scrutinize the Biden administration’s Covid policies and the origins of the...
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Charles Silverstein, 87, Dies; Helped Destigmatize Homosexuality
He was at the forefront in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to reassess its classification of homosexuality as a mental...
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Her Foot Looked Normal. What Was Causing the Excruciating Pain?
A few weeks after she twisted her ankle, the girl’s foot kept getting worse. Her hand movements cued the doctor...