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Pregnant mother holding her stomach (Getty Images)

Diagnosing fetal alcohol syndromes

Emma Yasinski - Undark
Young pregnant woman being examined during pregnancy while coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

The pandemic isn't over for the pregnant

Nicole Karlis
Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2022 shows the frozen Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Extreme cold weather with the temperature as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius covered Toronto from Friday to Saturday. (Photo by (Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Climate change hits the Great Lakes

Diana Kruzman - Grist
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Starving manatees delivered lettuce

Kelly McClure
Workers make last minute preparations for the Super Bowl as viewed from the lake at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Inglewood unimpressed by "green" Bowl

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Demonstrators participate in a Defeat the Mandates march in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2022. - Demonstrators are protesting mask and Covid-19 vaccination mandates. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Medical boards let misinformation slide

Blake Farmer - KFF Health News
Doctor examining a woman at home and listening to her chest with a stethoscope (Getty Images/Hispanolistic)

Why Covid is a cardiovascular disease

Nicole Karlis
Moscow Mule cocktail served chilled with ice in a copper mug and garnished with fresh mint and lime on a wooden bar counter (Getty Images/Yulia-Images)

Moscow Mule with a side of toxic copper

Jim Robbins - KFF Health News
Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee performs during the figure skating team event women's single skating free skating at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 7, 2022. (Liu Xiao/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Did trimetazidine help Russia win gold?

Eric Schank
Working at home during quarantine during a coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

Americans face COVID-19 decision fatigue

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
This artist’s impression shows a close-up view of Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The planet is believed to be rocky and to have a mass about a quarter that of Earth. Two other planets known to orbit Proxima Centauri are visible in the image too: Proxima b, a planet with about the same mass as Earth that orbits the star every 11 days and is within the habitable zone, and candidate Proxima c, which is on a longer five-year orbit around the star. (ESO/L. Calçada)

New planet in our galactic neighborhood

Nicole Karlis
Aerial view of containers and cargo ships at the Port of Los Angeles on January 19, 2022 in San Pedro, California. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

Global shipping moving invasive species

Tim Lydon - The Revelator
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

Pandemic exposed outdated health tech

Bram Sable-Smith - KFF Health News
Silhouette Couple Holding Hands During Sunset (Getty Images / Siam Pukkato / EyeEm)

Are attachment styles B.S.?

Nicole Karlis
Sexy woman in fishnet stocking sitting with medical mask (Getty Images/Oleg Elkov)

Diddling while Rome burns

Rebecca Coffey
Coronavirus on the brain (Getty Images)

Decoding brain diseases

Elizabeth Landau - Undark
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

"Time to Wake Up Speeches" are back

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Students in the audience listen as Chris Herren speaks. At Wilson High School in West Lawn, PA where former NBA basketball player Chris Herren, who has been in recovery for more than 12 years, spoke to a group of High School students as part of the Caron Treatment Center Peak Performance Leadership Academy Tuesday afternoon April 13, 2021. As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, seating at the event was limited, and video was recorded of the presentation by Herren, to be shown to other students later. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

How the pandemic warped Gen Z

Eric Schank
Patient with Chest Pain (Getty Images/Jim Craigmyle)

The "pain gap" persists in health care

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Set of syringes with medication (Anna Efetova/Getty Images)

Covid vaccine for young kids delayed

Nicole Karlis
COVID-19 home rapid test kits are seen on a shelf at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Orlando, Florida. Walmart and Kroger are raising the price for the hard-to-find BinaxNOW rapid tests after the directive from the White House to sell them at cost has expired. Test kits that were formerly sold for $14 will now retail for $19.88 at Walmart and $23.99 at Kroger. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How much do "free" Covid tests cost?

Christine Spolar - KFF Health News
In this photo released by G20 Australia and taken on Saturday Nov 15, 2014, Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott and President of Russia Vladimir Putin hold koala's during a photo opportunity on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. (AP Photo/G20 Australia,Andrew Taylor) (AP)

Koalas are officially endangered

Kelly McClure
US President Joe Biden (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The loophole to lower drug prices

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Dense coastal redwood Sequoia sempervirens forest in Redwood National Park California showing fallen tree that has become a nurse log for new plant growth, Redwood National Park in northern California near Eureka California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Conservation potential of roadless areas

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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