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Cannabis plant (Getty Images)

Is marijuana addictive?

Nicole Karlis
Old man with a cup of tea (Getty Images/ jeangill)

A brief history of old age

Sharon DeWitte - The Conversation
Surgical face mask with "BA.5" written on it, referring to the BA.5 variant of COVID-19 (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

What's BA.5 and why is it so contagious?

Nicole Karlis
Ashton Kutcher during the 2022 Tribeca Festival at BMCC Tribeca PAC on June 12, 2022 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

Ashton Kutcher opens up about vasculitis

Matthew Rozsa
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Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

Will Joe Manchin get his pipeline?

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Anti-Polio vaccine packages from the Cutter Laboratories. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Why polio is making a comeback

Matthew Rozsa
Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as UCLA lecturers and students walk by (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

When monkeypox comes to schools

Nicole Karlis
The Sunrise Motel remains flooded after Hurricane Irma hit the area on September 11, 2017 in East Naples, Florida. (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Climate change is worsening disease

Tristan McKenzie, Camilo Mora, Hannah Von Hammerstein - The Conversation
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Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

When abortion laws and ER care conflict

Harris Meyer - KFF Health News
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

How monkeypox spreads

Rebecca S.B. Fischer - The Conversation
Doctor briefing medical students (Getty Images/sturti)

Who's going to teach abortion now?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Nature's secret drug stockpile

Ashu Tripathi - The Conversation
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Paramedics carry a stretcher with a patient out of an ambulance at Brooklyn Hospital Center on March 27, 2020 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Monkeypox gives paramedics COVID déjà vu

Bob Hennelly
The state capitol building in Sacramento, California (Getty Images/PictureLake)

California could make abortion a right

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

How many times can you get COVID?

Nicole Karlis
Futuristic Robot AI Leadership Concept (Getty Images/gremlin)

Will a super AI kill us all? Maybe

Émile P. Torres
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Empty ampoules containing Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine (Imvanex / Jynneos) stand in a box on a table at Klinikum rechts der Isar. (Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A virologist explains monkeypox vaccine

Maureen Ferran - The Conversation
Coronavirus on the brain (Getty Images)

Cognitive rehab to treat COVID brain fog

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Earth viewed from Space (Getty Images/Jaiphet Seehawong)

Earth is spinning faster than it should

Nicole Karlis
Abortion drug pills and drinking water (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

Abortion pill reversal is "unscientific"

Nicole Karlis
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Valencian Figurita Pidgeon (Getty Images/Richard Bailey)

Pet pigeons teach lessons in letting go

E.B. Bartels
Empty ampoules containing Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine (Imvanex / Jynneos) stand in a box on a table at Klinikum rechts der Isar. (Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Monkeypox may already be a pandemic

Nicole Karlis
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Polio remerges as possible threat

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Human brain, conceptual illustration (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

Justice system is failing mentally ill

Katheryn Houghton
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