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Is America Prepared for the Pandemic After COVID-19

WEBBiden’s $7.4 billion bolus is a welcome start—but just a start. And though his new pandemic-preparedness plan commits $6.5 billion toward strengthening the U.S. …

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Why California and Oregon Broke With the CDC

WEBUpdated at 2:40 p.m. ET on February 4, 2024. Recently, California surprised the public-health world by easing the state’s recommendations for asymptomatic people who test …

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A New Sweetener Has Joined the Ranks of Aspartame and Stevia

WEBA few months ago, my doctor uttered a phrase I’d long dreaded: Your blood sugar is too high. With my family history of diabetes, and occasional powerful cravings …

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‘Gut Health’ Has a Fatal Flaw

WEBIn my childhood home, an often-repeated phrase was “All disease begins in the gut.” My dad, a health nut, used this mantra to justify his insistence that our family …

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Is Health Care a Human Right

WEBAccording to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, nearly 60 percent of Americans think it is the government’s obligation to guarantee health-care coverage. What it …

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How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall

WEBOctober 23, 2021. There was a time, at the start of the 20th century, when the field of public health was stronger and more ambitious. A mixed group of physicians, scientists, …

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Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves

WEBThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the health-care sector has lost nearly half a million workers since February 2020. Morning Consult, a survey …

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We’re All Reading Wrong

WEBReading, while not technically medicine, is a fundamentally wholesome activity. It can prevent cognitive decline, improve sleep, and lower blood pressure. In …

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Biden is winning on health care

WEBUpdated at 3:15 p.m. ET on March 29, 2024. Expanding access to health care has been a shared policy priority for Joe Biden and the former Democratic …

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The Atlantic's Health Summit 2024

WEBThe Atlantic's Health Summit explores scaling tech innovation, improving to patient care & access, and curing complex diseases, amidst this revolutionary moment …

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The Privatization of Public Health

WEBUnquestionably, the private sector has a role to play in public health—just look at the private companies that produced the vaccines and the private hospitals that …

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Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients

WEBCases like Awaad’s are especially fraught because differing diagnoses of the same patient are common in health care; it’s where the term second opinion comes …

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What Good Is 'Raising Awareness

WEBAccording to a commentary published this month in the American Journal of Public Health, the United States has almost 200 official “health awareness days.” (The …

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The Doctor Will Ask About Your Gun Now

WEBSome evidence shows that when health-care workers counsel patients and give them a locking device, it leads to safer storage habits. Doctors are now trying to …

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The Mystery of the Maple Syrup Smell

WEBI silently scoffed, continuing my run with sugar snaps and syrup-saturated waffles revolving in mind. Twenty minutes later, she hopped off of her machine, but the …

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Bringing a Social Movement to Life

WEBOccasionally you read a book that changes your sense of what a book can do. For me, that title was Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, which recounts the …

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Mary Shelley’s Lessons for a Plague-Ridden World

WEBThe Last Man is narrated by an Englishman named Lionel Verney, and takes place from 2073 to 2100, during which time he witnesses the beginning, middle, and end …

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No One Has a Right to Protest in My Home

WEBProduced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. As a constitutional scholar and the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, I strongly …

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An American Nazi in New Jersey

WEBIn 1974, residents of the town of Paterson were confronted by an unexpected question: Was one of their neighbors, a prolific Communist-hunter, one of …

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The Trumpification of the Supreme Court

WEBThe notion that Donald Trump’s supporters believe that he should be able to overthrow the government and get away with it sounds like hyperbole, an absurd and …

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Bad Bunny Has It All—And That’s the Problem

WEBNear the end of Bad Bunny’s 2022 World’s Hottest Tour in Las Vegas, all the lights went out. The Puerto Rican singer and rapper filled the darkness before the song …

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The Supreme Court Is Frighteningly Warm to Trump's Immunity …

WEBProduced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Here are a few things that Donald Trump’s lawyer says a president ought to be immune from …

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The Supreme Court Is Poised to Unshackle a Second Trump Term

WEBAt today’s hearing on Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority appeared poised to give …

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