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[ad_1] About four years ago, a new patient came to see me for a psychiatric consultation because he felt stuck. He’d been in therapy for 15...
[ad_1] Growing up in India, which for decades has clocked millions of tuberculosis cases each year, Lalita Ramakrishnan was intimately familiar with how devastating the disease...
[ad_1] As Halloween nears, you might be strategizing how to deal with your child’s annual sack of Halloween candy after a big night of trick-or-treating. It’s...
[ad_1] My mom could always leap into the coldest water. Every summer when we visited my grandma in upstate New York, my mom dove straight into...
[ad_1] The speaker made a last-minute reversal to avert a government shutdown. It could cost him his job. Anna Moneymaker / Getty September 30, 2023, 5:52...
[ad_1] This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. Back at the turn of the 21st century, valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the...
[ad_1] Since Omicron swept across the globe in 2021, the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has moved at a slower and more predictable pace. New variants of interest...
[ad_1] For years, the American approach to protein has been a never-ending quest for more. On average, each person in the United States puts away roughly...
[ad_1] Outside the door, I heard a flurry of thudding that reverberated back through the floor. I looked at my friend, then stepped in behind her....
[ad_1] A heat dome in Texas. Wildfire smoke polluting the air in the East and Midwest. The signs are everywhere that our children’s summers will look...
[ad_1] The White House and Congress have not made much progress in their talks to avert an unprecedented, and potentially calamitous, national default that could occur...
[ad_1] By all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation on COVID appears to have essentially flatlined. More than a year has passed...
[ad_1] I do not like carbonated beverages, plain and simple. I won’t drink soda, and you’ll never catch me with a beer. Gin and tonics are...
[ad_1] Last December, during a Christmas Eve celebration with my in-laws in California, I observed what I now realize was the future of COVID for older...
[ad_1] During the Cold War, NATO had nightmares of hundreds of thousands of Moscow’s troops pouring across international borders and igniting a major ground war with...
[ad_1] Stephen B. Thomas, the director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland, considers himself an eternal optimist. When he reflects on...
[ad_1] Mark Sklansky, a pediatric cardiologist at UCLA, has not shaken a hand in several years. The last time he did so, it was only “because...
[ad_1] This past spring, Amanda Goldberg crouched in the leafy undergrowth of a southwestern Virginia forest and attempted to swab a mouse for COVID. No luck;...
[ad_1] Many, many millions of years ago, an HIV-like virus wriggled its way into the genome of a floofy, bulgy-eyed lemur, and got permanently stuck. Trapped...