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[ad_1] At first, doctors didn’t believe that bacteria could live in the stomach at all. Too acidic, they thought. But in 1984, a young Australian physician...
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[ad_1] The autopsy should have been a piece of cake. My patient had a history of widely metastatic cancer, which was pretty straightforward as far as...
[ad_1] The nonexhaustive list of things women are told to avoid while pregnant includes cat litter, alfalfa sprouts, deli meat, runny egg yolks, pet hamsters, sushi,...
[ad_1] This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. For Taylor Arnold, a registered dietitian nutritionist, feeding her second baby was not easy. At eight weeks...
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[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 chances of...
[ad_1] No country has a perfect COVID vaccination rate, even this far into the pandemic, but America’s record is particularly dismal. About a third of Americans—more...
[ad_1] For about 60 years, health authorities in the United States have been championing a routine for at least some sector of the public: a yearly...
[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 than half...
[ad_1] The most haunting memory of the pandemic for Laura, a doctor who practices internal medicine in New York, is a patient who never got COVID...