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Instead of cutting services to cut costs, one rural hospital plans to thrive by offering more.
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We’re Bungling the COVID Wind-Down
A successful vaccine-outreach group confronts the pivot to “normalcy.”
Someday, You Might Be Able to Eat Your Way Out of a Cold
A nascent scientific field is working to untangle the complex relationship between metabolism and infection.
Psychedelics Open Your Brain. You Might Not Like What Falls In.
Reshaping your mind isn’t always a great idea.
Outdoor Dining Is Doomed
“Streeteries” are sitting empty this winter.
Airplane Toilets Could Catch the Next COVID Variant
Your best contribution to public health might happen at 30,000 feet.
Scientists Tried to Break Cuddling. Instead, They Broke 30 Years of Research.
Oxytocin, often lauded as the “hug hormone,” might not be necessary to induce affection.
The Flu-ification of COVID Policy Is Almost Complete
The government is pushing harder than ever to make “yearly COVID shots” a thing.
Whatever Happened to Toilet Plumes?
Beware the lidless toilet, even if one won’t give you COVID-19.
Please Don’t Call My Cervix Incompetent
There’s no end to the weird ways medicine describes women’s bodies.
Wait, Is This Winter Going … Okay?
Experts say things have gone better than expected with COVID, the flu, and RSV. But the bar set by the past few years is awfully low.