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Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror

Ian Mosby and Erin Millions | Opinion

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How a Remote Indigenous Community Fought the Pandemic

Ajay Saini | Opinion

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots

Tanya Lewis, Josh Fischman and Maddie Bender

Deaf Children in Developing Countries Are Getting Inferior Cochlear Implants

The technology they receive is often obsolete or has never been used in wealthier nations

Michele Friedner | Opinion

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Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror

Ian Mosby and Erin Millions | Opinion

Public Health

How a Remote Indigenous Community Fought the Pandemic

Ajay Saini | Opinion

Public Health

COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots

Tanya Lewis, Josh Fischman and Maddie Bender

Epidemiology

Why Do Variants Such as Delta Become Dominant?

Sara Reardon

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The Crucial Vaccine Benefit We’re Not Talking about Enough

Daniel P. Oran and Eric Topol | Opinion

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A Few Days on Antibiotics Are Often as Good as Weeks, Research Shows

Claudia Wallis

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This Formula Calculates How Many Calories You Burn If You’re Doing Absolutely Nothing

Florian Freistetter

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Fauci on COVID Drugs, Vaccines and Getting Back to Normal

Charles Schmidt

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The Crucial Vaccine Benefit We’re Not Talking about Enough

The vaccines not only prevent people from getting sick; they also cut down on transmission by those who get infected after immunization

Daniel P. Oran and Eric Topol | Opinion

How Dangerous Is the Delta Variant, and Will It Cause a COVID Surge in the U.S.?

A new, more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2 is rapidly spreading in the country and poses a threat to unvaccinated and partially vaccinated people

Why Do Variants Such as Delta Become Dominant?

Mutations that make a virus more transmissible are only part of the equation

Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror

Founded to carry out the genocide of Indigenous people, they created conditions that killed thousands of children

Ian Mosby and Erin Millions | Opinion

How the Delta Variant Spreads So Quickly

Viral load is roughly 1,000 times higher in people infected with the Delta variant than those infected with the original coronavirus strain, according to a study in China

Sara Reardon and Nature magazine

A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long COVID’

We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill

Claire Pomeroy | Opinion

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Profit and Loss: America on Dialysis

Profit and Loss: America on Dialysis

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What Is CRISPR, and Why Is It So Important?

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Decoded: What Is a Virus, Exactly?

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots

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