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Racial Disparities Have Been Found in Screening for Postpartum Mood Disorders
Tech-based solutions could offer hope
When Will Kids Get COVID Vaccines?
Pharmaceutical companies are starting clinical trials in young children and adolescents, but they must balance speed and safety
Scandal over COVID Vaccine Trial at Peruvian Universities Prompts Outrage
Researchers gave shots to politicians and family members, violating trial regulations—and damaging public trust
A City in Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest Is a Stark Warning about COVID to the Rest of the World
Manaus and cities like it will continue to generate dangerous viral variants if vaccination campaigns are not expanded to broadly reach all nations, rich or poor
Female Botanist Published the First Ever Photo Book
Nineteenth-century researcher Anna Atkins collected specimens of algae and imaged them using the then cutting-edge blueprinting process
To Achieve Mental Health Equity, Dismantle Social Injustice
Substance use disorders and other problems cannot be addressed from a position of willful ignorance about our society’s inequalities
National Carbon Tax Upheld by Canada’s Supreme Court
The tax, now equivalent to $24 in U.S. dollars, will rise to $135 by 2030
Some Deep-Sea Bacteria Are So Strange, Our Immune Sensors Miss Them
These microbes are redefining our understanding of how bodies recognize potential pathogens
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world
