NEED TO KNOW Two babies, aged 5 months and 20 months, a teenage girl and a man have been killed in a house fire in Queensland, Australia The…
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Read more GoFundMe Is a Health-Care Utility NowWhen the weather turns frigid, there is only one thing to do: make a pot of chicken-noodle soup. On the first cold afternoon in early December, I simmered…
Read more Beware Noodle SoupFor all of my life, I thought eating breakfast with Santa was totally normal. Every year, he would come to my church in western New York and sit…
Read more I Spent $85 to Eat Breakfast With SantaThe heat—miserable and oppressive—is not abating. Today, a third of Americans are under a heat alert as temperatures keep breaking records: Phoenix has hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit for…
Read more You Really Don’t Want to Be Thirsty in a Heat WaveReal-life Ron DeSantis was here, finally. In the fidgety flesh; in Iowa, South Carolina, and, in this case, New Hampshire. Not some distant Sunshine State of potential or…
Read more Ron DeSantis’s Joyless Ride… for their views about marijuana legalization.Laurie laments the … lack of regulation for marijuana advertising. Despite the multiple … that clearly show that marijuana adversely affects the…
Read more The Marijuana-Legalization Conundrum – Medical Marijuana Program ConnectionThe pandemic initiated a slew of transformations, and though many have not stuck, one indisputably has: Telehealth is booming in America. This golden age of electronic engagement has…
Read more There’s No Such Thing as a Casual Interaction With Your Doctor AnymoreIn one very specific and mostly benign way, it’s starting to feel a lot like the spring of 2020: Disinfection is back. “Bleach is my friend right now,”…
Read more Norovirus Is Almost Impossible to StopAmong the things Jaime Herrera Beutler remembers about January 6, 2021, is that her husband managed to turn off the television just in time. He was at home…
Read more A Republican Congresswoman’s Lasting RegretSometime in the spring of 2020, after centuries, perhaps millennia, of tumultuous coexistence with humans, influenza abruptly went dark. Around the globe, documented cases of the viral infection…
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