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An Adorable Way to Study How Kids Get Each Other Sick
[ad_1] At the start of 2022, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus blazed across the United States, Seema Lakdawala was in Pittsburgh, finalizing…
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A Vaccine for Birth Control?
[ad_1] For half a century, Gursaran Pran Talwar has been developing what he hopes will be the next big thing in birth control. A…
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Somehow, the Science on Masks Still Isn’t Settled
[ad_1] For many Americans, wearing a mask has become a relic. But fighting about masks, it seems, has not. Masking has widely been seen…
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Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even Starts
[ad_1] Three years into the global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the arsenal to combat long COVID remains depressingly bare. Being vaccinated seems to reduce people’s…
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The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next Pandemic
[ad_1] On one level, the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic over the past two and half years was a major triumph for modern…
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The Other Abortion Pill
[ad_1] In the months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, demand for medication abortion has soared. The method already accounted for more…