He was one of the few ICU patients whose face I saw in early 2021, when COVID raged through Los Angeles. As a palliative-care physician, my job was to meet,…
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Awards season may only happen a few months each year, but the red carpets are always ablaze with stunning hairstyles that set the tone for beauty trends. From timeless waves…
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all…
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There seems to be a limit to how anti-vax is too anti-vax in the Trump administration. Yesterday, hours before Dave Weldon was slated to begin his Senate confirmation hearing for…
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Until the second Trump administration took over, the National Institutes of Health—the world’s single largest public funder of biomedical research—was not in the business of canceling its grants. Of the…
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The wonder of the American supermarket is the way it exists outside of seasons. Stroll into any major grocery store on a dreary winter day, and you’ll find a bounty…
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Updated at 4:56 p.m. ET on March 11, 2025 In the early evening of March 7, 2020, I was on my cellphone in an airport terminal, telling a friend that…
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Photographs by Jake Dockins This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking…
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March is special for us at Sitting Pretty because March 8 is International Women’s Day, and what better way to honor a woman-led business than by helping you embrace the…
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Until this year, public-health officials have abided by a simple playbook for measles outbreaks: Get unvaccinated people vaccinated, as quickly as possible. The measles component of the measles, mumps, and…
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