Health
One of Tuberculosis’s Biggest, Scariest Numbers Is Probably Wrong
[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…
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Politics
Why the Fifth Circuit Keeps Making Such Outlandish Decisions
[ad_1] Where to even start in cataloging the most ridiculous—and alarming—recent rulings to come out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth…
Health
74 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2022
[ad_1] The writers on The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desks have learned a lot this year. Our coverage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic…
Health
Is Cord-Blood Banking Worth It?
[ad_1] In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood…