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An infectious disease doctor explains the science behind COVID-19 vaccines at a level that children – and adults – of…
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A 2015 paper on chicken virus evolution is being taken out of context and used to fuel fears about COVID-19 vaccines. Its…
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A COVID-19 vaccine does not cause infertility – but it can protect you from the dangerous complications of contracting…
Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines.…
Air-ventilation upgrades have been badly needed in U.S. classroooms since long before the pandemic. Low-tech filtration…
An unknown number of people have lost their dreams of parenthood because of storage disasters at fertility clinics. These…
The usefulness of a drug is typically measured by its active ingredient. But traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s…
After enduring a devastating wave of infections, deaths and lockdowns at the start of the pandemic, Italy is putting in…
Each dose of Pfizer vaccine has a long and complex path involving mixing, storage at temperatures colder than the South…
Ending the opioid epidemic requires addressing not only treatment gaps in addiction and overdose, but also inadequate pain…
Outsourcing is common in many hospitals. But when health care systems outsource certain clinical tasks to separate companies,…
A public health scholar based in New Delhi explains how India has emerged from the massive spike in COVID-19 cases, even…
People with weakened immune systems are at a high risk of severe and prolonged COVID-19 infections. An extra vaccine dose…
An economist explains what it would cost to give SNAP benefits to all Americans in households earning up to about $100,000…
A new study puts numbers to the health and environmental benefits – or impacts – of individual foods and shows how small…
New research shows correctional officers are vectors of infection, driving COVID-19 rates both inside prisons and in their…
COVID-19 cases in Mexico are approaching the highest levels seen during the second wave in late January 2021, with about…