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Topic: Health (page 48)

A 5th instar Rhodnius pallescens (Kissing Bug) sitting on a hand, engorged after consuming the blood of nearby fauna in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer K Peterson, PhD / jennipeterson.com)

Lifting the curtain on Chagas disease

Emily Cataneo - Undark
The Joy Of Sweat by Sarah Everts (Photo illustration by Salon/Joerg Emes/W. W. Norton & Company)

Why sweating is a human "superpower"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Person's hands holding prison bars (Getty Images)

Cutting child poverty is tough on crime

Gwen Adshead
Britney Spears attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Arrivals at Madison Square Garden on August 28, 2016 in New York City. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The legal bias against mental illness

Matthew Rozsa
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Bears stand by a wall at a bear farm of Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd on February 24, 2012 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province of China. The Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, which makes medicine using bile extracted from live bears, opened one of its bear farms to the media on Wednesday, to quell growing criticism. (Photo by Getty Images (Stringer/Getty Images)

Medicinal animals in modern China

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
Members of the Missouri National Guard work to administer the Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination event on February 11, 2021 at the Jeff Vander Lou Senior living facility in St Louis, Missouri. (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

Why COVID cases are rising in Missouri

Alex Henderson - Alternet
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

School boards' COVID response lack logic

Kimberly K. Monroe - Undark
Toddler crying, being consoled by father (Getty Images/Halfpoint Images)

The psychology of appeasement

Matthew Rozsa
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(Getty Images/FatCamera)

"Good enough" parents avoid these acts

Gail Cornwall, Juli Fraga
Parapan Athlete Tiana Knight demonstrates Blindsquare, an iPhone app that helps blind people by voicing out what's around them. (Chris So/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

New tech, better quality of life for all

Kristen Shinohara, Garreth Tigwell - The Conversation
An Amazon employee prepares a package for shipment (RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images)

When workplace wellbeing efforts fail

Stephen Bevan - The Conversation
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Mast cells and the mystery of long COVID

Temma Ehrenfeld - Undark
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Allergic man blowing on wipe in a park on spring season a sunny day (Getty Images/Pheelings Media)

Why allergy season is so bad this year

Nicole Karlis
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

States push to regulate pharmacy brokers

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Young Woman With Stomach Pain (Getty Images/Bundit Binsuk/EyeEm)

This is why your stomach hurts

Mary Elizabeth Williams
#FreeBritney activists protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Britney Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

This model may help others like Britney

Laura Guidry
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Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

Modern-day segregation in hospitals

John M. Hollingsworth, Ekow N. Yankah, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu
Passengers pet dogs at Dmitri Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk International Airport as part of the Emotional Support Dog project (Andrei SamsonovTASS via Getty Images)

Support animals not cleared for take-off

Nicole Karlis
Britney Spears (Getty Images/Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Spears highlights the dark side of IUDs

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/urbazon)

On fixing the drug patent system

Gunjan Sinha - Undark
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Nurse prepares breast implant for surgery (iStock/Getty Images)

My breast implants made me ill

Pamela Appea
Young woman getting online medical help and advice during video-call with doctor (iStock/Getty Images)

Telehealth abortions are here to stay

Kylie Cheung
Overweight fat couple wrapped with measure tape (Getty Images/Vadym Petrochenko)

The curious science of liposuction

Matthew Rozsa
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Reforming how military handles assault

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
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