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Delivering accurate health messages to people around the world has never been more urgent than during the COVID-19 pandemic. But…
Back in 1986 South African biologist Rodney Jackson and his now wife Darla Hillard published three “self-portraits” that would shift…
Originally published in February 1917 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “A report to the French Academy of Sciences tells of a unique…
Back in 2010 Matt Thompson, then with National Public Radio, forecast in an op-ed that “at some point in the…
Observations | OpinionThe pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and preventionAdvertisement The need for chronic disease management…
As the COVID-19 pandemic makes grimly clear, cities are arguably humanity’s greatest invention, but densely populated metropolises also make us…
If there’s one thing we know about viruses, it’s that they love to spread. The novel coronavirus is happy to…
In trying to make sense of this rapidly changing COVID-19 world, I reflected on the recent passing of one of…
An experimental drug—and one of the world’s best hopes against COVID-19—could shorten the time to recovery from coronavirus infection, according…