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Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

Woman coughing and suffering in medical mask inside the home bedroom, searching for her symptoms on her phone (Getty Images)

Don't Google your symptoms!

Matthew Rozsa
Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

Surprise medical bills during COVID

Barak Richman - The Conversation
(Getty Images)

Debunking the "lizard brain" myth

Matthew Rozsa
FDNY paramedics load an elderly patient into their ambulance on an emergency call during the novel Coronavirus pandemic in NYC (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

COVID-19 widows may lose health care

Bob Hennelly
(Nicole Young)

Symbolic use of barrier contraceptives

Donna J. Drucker - MIT Press Reader
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-4520p1.html'>Fotocrisis</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Precious keepsake or needless risk?

Amy Martyn - FairWarning
(Getty/mphillips007)

A look into our coronavirus diets

Carli Liguori - The Conversation
Medics with the Cincinnati Fire Department work to keep a possible overdose victim awake after administering Naloxone while responding to a report at a gas station (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Why naloxone should be everywhere

Nancy D. Campbell
Agricultural worker spraying his crops (Getty Images)

EPA weakens safeguards for atrazine use

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Getty Images)

Doctors’ offices turn to GoFundMe

Brooke Borel - Undark
Participants hold signs during the Senate Democrats' rally against Medicaid cuts in front of the U.S. Capitol (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

States cut Medicaid amid pandemic

Igor Derysh
(Getty/Joe Raedle)

Southwest CEO: Airplanes low COVID risk

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Medical workers load a patient from Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center into an ambulance while wearing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Andover, New Jersey. After an anonymous tip to police, 17 people were found dead at the long-term care facility, including two nurses, where at least 76 patients and 41 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Our deadly prejudice against the elderly

Lynn Casteel Harper
Police officers stop a man who used the subway without a protection mask (ANDREI PUNGOVSCHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Men think masks make them less manly

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump | Chart of daily COVID-19 tests per thousand people in the United States of America (AP Photo/COVID Tracking Project/Our World in Data/Salon)

Trump compares COVID-19 fatalities

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
Woman wearing a protective mask is walking alone with a dog outdoors because of the corona virus pandemic covid-19 (Getty Images)

Coronavirus hits cats harder than dogs

Nicole Karlis
Youtube | Coronavirus (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

YouTube's "pandemic of misinformation"

Matthew Rozsa
Group of people with protective masks walking outdoors in the city (Getty Images)

Why coronavirus may never be eradicated

Matthew Rozsa
Gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman, right, disregards social distancing guidelines as he leans in to talk with Chuck Slifko at a crowded protest opposing Washington state's stay-home order to slow the coronavirus outbreak Sunday, April 19, 2020, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

How talking spreads coronavirus

Matthew Rozsa
Partially cooked plantains sautéing. (Salon)

Can't eat gluten? Check your cookware

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Medical personnel transport the first patient affected by COVID-19 to an ICU tent ( Emanuele Cremaschi/Stringer/Getty Images)

"Darkest winter in modern history"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Coronavirus | Smoking (Salon/Getty Images)

Study: Smoking isn't a COVID-19 cure

Matthew Rozsa
The constellation Orion, with the star Betelgeuse glowing yellow (VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Betelgeuse's weird dimming, explained

Nicole Karlis
3D render illustration of COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Spreading coronavirus through song

Matthew Rozsa
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