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Jo Karabasz says she’s handled a lot in her 58 years of life, but when it comes to her dialysis, she needs things to go smoothly. “Just don’t fuss with me,” she said. (Larry C. Price)

Dialysis is big business. Is it rigged?

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Doing a COVID test in full PPE wear at a senior's home (Getty Images)

Should hospitals reuse medical supplies?

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Highway to Milky Way (Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)

Space travel via new celestial autobahn?

Nicole Karlis
Close up view of a doctor wearing surgical mask and a face shield in a hospital COVID ward. (Getty Images)

It's time to appeal to fear of COVID

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
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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)

Who gets vaccinated next?

Nicole Karlis
President- elect Joe Biden (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Zoya Teirstein
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The COVID vaccine distribution process

Bahar Aliakbarian - The Conversation
Dieting Items In Orange (Getty Images)

Stop thinsplaining to obese people

Matthew Rozsa
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Harvard University (Getty/Pgiam)

Colleges face another season of red ink

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

We just met Planet Nine's twin

Nicole Karlis
The United States-Mexico border wall is seen in Organ Pipe National Park south of Ajo, Arizona (SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

An intro to "fence ecology"

Alex McInturff, Christine Wilkinson, Wenjing Xu - The Conversation
A health care worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Concerns grow over equal vaccine access

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Protesters hold banners and shout slogans during the 12th day of protests against the Constitutional Court ruling on tightening the abortion law in front of the Archbishops Palace on November 02, 2020 in Krakow, Poland. The country's constitutional tribunal recently ruled that terminating pregnancies due to serious, irreversible fetal defects is unconstitutional. The decision sparked a wave of protests against the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS). (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

Mass protests for reproductive rights

Julie Burkhart
Donald Trump (Getty Images)

EPA rejects tightening soot standards

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Agricultural worker spraying his crops (Getty Images)

How pesticide drift harms the public

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning
In this photo illustration the Florida's COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard is seen displayed on a computer screen. Rebekah Jones, the woman who created and ran Florida's online coronavirus data site, was removed from her job by May 5, 2020 for resisting efforts by the state Department of Health to make the data harder to access for the public, researchers and the media. (Illustration by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Whistleblower Rebekah Jones speaks out

Matthew Rozsa
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UFO flying toward Earth (Getty Images)

Why do smart people lie about aliens?

Matthew Rozsa, Keith A. Spencer
Distressed doctor wearing protective suit to fight coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

A nightmare COVID scenario has come true

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani waits to testify before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

Giuliani's VIP COVID-19 treatment

Matthew Rozsa
Ultrasound pregnancy examination of a young woman in a Medical Clinic during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images)

Pregnant women not tested in vax trials

Nicole Karlis
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Little boy overwhelmed during the COVID-19 pandemic (Getty Images)

Remote learning exacerbates inequalities

Hernán Galperin, Stephen Aguilar - The Conversation
Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Trump's "wrecking ball" to Arctic Refuge

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Corn (Getty Images)

Trump's EPA OKs neurotoxic pesticide

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump | A phial of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump opted not to buy 100M vaccines

Matthew Rozsa
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