You’re not imagining it. Your ponytail is skinnier, your part does look wider, and yes, all those strands on your pillow are new. If you’ve noticed your hair thinning lately,…
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Four and a half years ago, fresh off the success of Operation Warp Speed, mRNA vaccines were widely considered—as President Donald Trump said in December 2020—a “medical miracle.” Last week,…
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A not-insignificant number of TikToks aim to convince the viewer that beef-tallow moisturizer will not make your face smell like cow. The beauty influencers who tend to appear in these…
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Illustration by Michael Houtz The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets…
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We get it, mornings are chaotic. For some reason, there’s never enough time. You’re juggling emails, oat milk lattes, half-done to-do lists, and maybe even a last-minute outfit change. The…
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When gunfire pelted the Atlanta-based headquarters of the CDC yesterday, hundreds of employees were inside the campus’s buildings. The experience was terrifying. But some of the employees were not particularly…
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Last month, America’s top health officials gathered in downtown Washington for an ice-cream party. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—joined by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins—hunched over…
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We all want that magazine-worthy mane—long, lush, and enviable. But, every hair extension method has a cost, and not just in dollars. Starting with the biggest one: your natural hair…
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Last week, the National Institutes of Health finally got some good news. A Senate subcommittee voted, with support from both parties, to increase the agency’s $48 billion budget—a direct rebuke…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. For the better part of the past century, the case against nicotine was…