The Enigma of ‘Heat-Related’ Deaths
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 causes of death…
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Being Alive Is Bad for Your Health
In 2016, I gave up Diet Coke. This was no small adjustment. I was born and raised in suburban Atlanta, home to the Coca-Cola Company’s global headquarters, and…
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The Future of Long COVID
In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most…
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COVID Vaccines Are Turning Into Flu Shots
For all the legwork that public-health experts have done over the past few years to quash comparisons between COVID-19 and the flu, there sure seems to be a…
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Pandemic Babies’ Microbiomes Are Bound to Be Different
In the spring of 2021, Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia, offered the world a bold and worrying prediction. “My guess is that five…
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