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The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything
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The Real Reason You Should Get an E-bike
[ad_1] Today’s happiness and personal-finance gurus have no shortage of advice for living a good life. Meditate daily. Sleep for eight hours a night.…
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How a Common Stomach Bug Causes Cancer
[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…
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It’s the Best Time in History to Have a Migraine
[ad_1] Here is a straightforward, clinical description of a migraine: intense throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise, lasting for hours…
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The Enigma of ‘Heat-Related’ Deaths
[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…
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The Pregnancy Risk That Doctors Won’t Mention
[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…
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Anti-Allergy Formula Is on the Rise. Milk Allergies Might Not Be.
[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…
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Airplane Toilets Could Catch the Next COVID Variant
[ad_1] Airplane bathrooms are not most people’s idea of a good time. They’re barely big enough to turn around in. Their doors stick, like…
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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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How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines?
[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…
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When’s the Perfect Time to Get a Flu Shot?
[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:…
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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…
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‘It Just Seems Like My Patients Are Sicker’
[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…