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Dr. Michael Ford's office sits closed after he was found guilty on 15 charges of prescription and Medicaid fraud in a remote area of southwestern Virginias coal country where prescription opioids flooded the area decimating communities like Appalachia, Virginia, on Monday July 22, 2019. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Big Pharma needs an Appalachian elegy

Bobi Conn
Joe Biden and John Kerry (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

John Kerry talks about saving the planet

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
Firefighter holding an axe in his hand (Getty Images)

Firefighters pumping oxygen

Eli Cahan - KFF Health News
Tenino, Washington police chief Bob Swain playing guitar at home in June. Earlier in the year he was told his kidneys were failing and dialysis was necessary. But he had other plans. (Larry C. Price)

Treating people, not disease, in care

Carrie Arnold - Undark
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The galaxy GN-z11, which scientists think could be the farthest and oldest galaxy every observed, superimposed on an image from the COODS-North survey. (NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz))

The most distant galaxy upends physics

Nicole Karlis
Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

In battle against "the highway disease"

Myron Levin, Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Congress' action for climate in stimulus

Shannon Osaka - Grist
(Getty/Andrew Harrer/Schroptschop)

12 Trump attacks on the environment

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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Joe BIden (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)

Joe Biden's stutter is a gift to America

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dr. Jason Smith displays his bandage after being administered a COVID-19 vaccination at University of Louisville Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became available for specified use on Monday morning to five members of hospital staff. Dr. Smith became the first recipient of the vaccine in the state of Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Inside the effort to vaccinate America

Rachana Pradhan, Lauren Weber, Jay Hancock - KFF Health News
A vaccine syringe is held over a model of a coronavirus (Peter Endig/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID vaccine conflicts in nursing homes

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
US President-elect Joe Biden receives a Covid-19 vaccination from Tabe Mase, Nurse Practitioner and Head of Employee Health Services, at the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Delaware on December 21, 2020. (Alex Edelman / AFP / Getty Images)

Why vaccine hesitancy is deadly

Matthew Rozsa
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Corona virus close up wide shot in blood (Getty Images)

Many health experts underestimated COVID

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Traci Evans-Simmons has been on dialysis for three years and waiting for a kidney transplant since early 2019. She is considering getting a kidney transplant from a hepatitis C-positive donor. (Larry C. Price)

Can less-than-perfect donors save lives?

Carrie Arnold - Undark
President- elect Joe Biden (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The White House will get scrubbed down

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
USA, Washington, Leavenworth In Winter, Street Scene With Holiday Lights, Evening. (Getty Images)

Leavenworth lost

Joseph Winters - Grist
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Supporters of President Donald Trump gather to protest the election results (Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)

Why some don't believe election results

David M. Mayer - The Conversation
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Getty Images/ Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool)

Cruz blocking Biden from climate action

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Lab Grown Snowflakes (Photo illustration by Salon/Kenneth Libbrecht)

How to grow "designer" snowflakes

Nicole Karlis
PENGUIN ON ICEBERG IN THE ANTARCTICA (Getty Images)

How the coronavirus got to Antarctica

Nicole Karlis
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Nurse Practitioner Terri Welch administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at the Haxby and Wigginton Group Medical Practice in Haxby, northern England on December 22, 2020. (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccine allergic reactions, explained

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images)

A weird radio signal from a nearby star

Matthew Rozsa
surgical mask patterned with a world map (Getty Images)

The Earth is not healing

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus COVID-19 spores (Getty Images)

What the new mutation means

Matthew Rozsa
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