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Winter Illness This Year Is a Different Kind of Ugly
[ad_1] Earlier this month, Taison Bell walked into the intensive-care unit at UVA Health and discovered that half of the patients under his care…
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Pregnancy Can Change Your Shoe Size Forever
[ad_1] One night in July, a few weeks after my son was born, I lay awake, desperately scrolling through photos of injured feet. The…
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Why So Many Accidental Pregnancies Happen in Your 40s
[ad_1] After she turned 42, Teesha Karr thought she was done having kids. Six, in her mind, was perfect. And besides, she was pretty…
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An Unusual Theory Suggests That Sex Helps the Body Tolerate a Fetus
[ad_1] In the early 1990s, while studying preeclampsia in Guadeloupe, Pierre-Yves Robillard hit upon a realization that seemed to shake the foundations of his…
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Fall’s Vaccine Routine Didn’t Have to Be This Hard
[ad_1] In an ideal version of this coming winter, the United States would fully revamp its approach to respiratory disease. Pre-pandemic, fall was just…