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Why We Have So Many Problems with Our Teeth

I sat at an oral surgeon’s office waiting for my daughter. The scene called to mind an assembly line. Patients…

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Are Smokers or Vapers More at Risk for COVID-19? Here’s What We know

Kit R. RoaneKit R. Roane is a producer at Retro Report. He has worked as a journalist and documentary photographer…

5 years ago

We’re Thinking about Climate Change the Wrong Way

Much activist and political rhetoric, even from United Nations conferences, frames solving climate change as a political challenge—as if all…

5 years ago

Coronavirus Misinformation Its Own Deadly Condition

“You know, the other day we had a bright sunny day as we do today in New York, after many…

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Heart Damage in COVID-19 Patients Puzzles Doctors

While the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on respiratory problems and securing enough ventilators, doctors on the front…

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Meat Pills Fight Tuberculosis – Scientific American

Originally published in June 1868 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “The use of raw meat in the treatment of debility and consumption…

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The Pandemic Shows Why the U.S. Must Invest in Public Research

In the weeks to come, we’re about to relearn that old truth: necessity is the mother of invention. Researchers will…

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How to Stop Science Thieves

Earlier this year, the chair of Harvard’s chemistry department was arrested and charged with lying to federal law-enforcement officials about…

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New Coronavirus Drug Shows Promise in Animal Tests

An oral medicine was able to hinder the coronavirus behind COVID-19 as it attempted to replicate itself in human lung…

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What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Black Americans

In recent weeks, my patients in an urgent care in central Brooklyn came in progressively sicker by the day. They…

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