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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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We're Not Using One of Our Best Weapons against Drug-Resistant Microbes
New antibiotics will help, but vaccines are a more immediate, complementary solution
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Ob-Gyns Do Too Much Fetal Monitoring
It’s important in high-risk pregnancies, but most pregnancies aren’t risky
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We've Lost Touch with Our Bodies
But we can get it back through a process known as “interoception”
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Appalachia's Fight to Lessen the Impact of Substance Misuse
A needle-exchange program in Virginia is a good first step—but isn’t enough by itself
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Tiny Organs in Orbit
Cultured human lung, heart and kidney cells flying onboard the International Space Station could reveal much about aging and disease
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We Need to Stop Drug-Resistant Malaria at Its Source, Right Now
Immediate, targeted interventions in Southeast Asia could prevent a pandemic
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The Topography of Disease
A 19th-century doctor famously mapped cholera’s toll to try and understand its origin and spread—but that's only part of the story
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We Need to Talk about Intestinal Worms
More than a half billion children were treated for these debilitating parasites in 2017—but even more are still suffering
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When Physicians Need to Ask for Help
I learned during my last year of medical training—the most difficult year of my life—that “going it alone” did not make me stronger
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The Trump Administration Is Jeopardizing Public Health
The EPA has been transformed from an environmental guardian into an agency that eschews science and uses cost-benefit analyses to reject regulations that would protect the public
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