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Virus Variants Likely Evolved Inside People With Weak Immune Systems

Virus Variants Likely Evolved Inside People With Weak Immune...

Growing evidence suggests that people with cancer and other conditions that challenge...

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Disenfranchised Grief in a Year of Pandemic Losses

Disenfranchised Grief in a Year of Pandemic Losses

There is a name for grief that isn’t routinely acknowledged: disenfranchised grief. 

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The Making of a ‘European Yellowstone’

The Making of a ‘European Yellowstone’

A major conservation effort is underway in Romania. The goal is a new national park...

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The AstraZeneca Vaccine: Should You Be Concerned?

The AstraZeneca Vaccine: Should You Be Concerned?

There is no evidence so far of a link between the AstraZeneca shots and a few new...

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Vaccinated Americans Have Been Getting Their Second Doses on Time

Vaccinated Americans Have Been Getting Their Second Doses...

Federal health officials urged local vaccinators to take steps to ensure that everyone...

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Purdue Pharma Offers Plan to End Sackler Control and Mounting Lawsuits

Purdue Pharma Offers Plan to End Sackler Control and Mounting...

The OxyContin maker filed its long-awaited restructuring plan in bankruptcy court....

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The Pandemic and the Limits of Science

The Pandemic and the Limits of Science

What have we learned from the year that lasted a century?

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Doctors Are Investigated After Posting Organ Photos Online as ‘Price Is Right’ Game

Doctors Are Investigated After Posting Organ Photos Online...

The medical residents, who are employed by Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich.,...

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Things To Do At Home

Things To Do At Home

This week, celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, listen to Shakespeare or make some art.

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Fred Figa, Who Helped Expose a Drug’s Dangers, Is Dead at 65

Fred Figa, Who Helped Expose a Drug’s Dangers, Is Dead...

He was the first hospital official to question the use of an unregulated vitamin...

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Ebola Survivor Infected Years Ago May Have Started New Outbreak

Ebola Survivor Infected Years Ago May Have Started New...

Genetic sequencing of virus samples from patients in Guinea suggest that the new...

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Why Older People Managed to Stay Happier Through the Pandemic

Why Older People Managed to Stay Happier Through the Pandemic

New surveys over the last year show that the ability to cope improves with age.

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Alabama Could Allow Yoga in Public Schools After a 28-Year Ban

Alabama Could Allow Yoga in Public Schools After a 28-Year...

“It’s just exercise,” said Jeremy Gray, a state lawmaker whose bill is making its...

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Clergy Preach Faith in the Covid Vaccine to Doubters

Clergy Preach Faith in the Covid Vaccine to Doubters

With widespread immunity essential to ending the pandemic, priests, imams, rabbis...

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More Childhood Lead Poisoning Is a Side Effect of Covid Lockdowns

More Childhood Lead Poisoning Is a Side Effect of Covid...

Lead screenings for children plummeted last spring, and stay-at-home orders may...

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Can the World Learn From South Africa’s Vaccine Trials?

Can the World Learn From South Africa’s Vaccine Trials?

Vaccine trials are often done in wealthier countries. Scientists say the South Africa...