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Topic: Health (page 42)

EMTs rush a patient to the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 24, 2020, as the number of confirmed Massachusetts cases of coronavirus soars to near 5,000. (Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Health care responders support peers

Peter Andrey Smith - Undark
Close up of red plastic granules (Getty Images/LukaSvetic)

There's probably plastic in your blood

Matthew Rozsa
The Pfizer logo is seen reflected in a drop on a needle (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pfizer CEO pushes yearly Covid shots

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Set of syringes with medication (Anna Efetova/Getty Images)

The psychology of "nudging"

Bryony Lau - Undark
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. (JOHN THYS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Big Pharma won't let the vaccine out

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Gun On A Table (Getty Images/Edward Olive/EyeEm)

Gun ownership and Black suicide rates

Alex Smith - KFF Health News
Young woman practicing yoga on the beach. (Kristina Jovanovic / Getty Images)

Is permanent DST better for our health?

Nicole Karlis
Young woman holding birth control pills blister pack (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

Birth control side effects elude science

Saima Sidik - Undark
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Old wood-burning stove in the kitchen of home (Getty Images/ChiccoDodiFC)

Wood burning stoves spark health issues

Diana Kruzman - Undark
In this photo illustration, a man looks at his supplies for type-1 diabetes management, including tubed insulin pump, insulin vial, syringe, needle, insulin cartridge, and infusion site applicator. (Matt Harbicht/Getty Images for Tandem Diabetes Care)

A cure for Type 1 diabetes inches nearer

Nicole Karlis
Woman eating a salad (Getty Images/Peter Cade)

Vegans, this is why you're always hungry

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pregnant woman getting vaccine (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

COVID vax: Pregnant women left behind

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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Sleepy nurse on duty sitting in dark room, exhausted by extra work in hospital (Getty Images/Motortion)

Lack of sleep wreaks havoc on your brain

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor taking patient's blood pressure (Getty Images/Siri Stafford)

Doctors overlook cure for hypertension

Mary Chris Jaklevic - Undark
A military vehicle with spaced armour moves past servicemen during tactical drills for Ukrainian Interior Ministry units to practice interoperability while defending a city, urban combat tactics and response to the aftermath of the hostilities in a city, Prypiat, the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Kyiv Region, northern Ukraine. (Volodymyr Tarasov/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Radiation fears from occupied Chernobyl

Matthew Rozsa
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

Reconsidering opioid treatment

Maia Szalavitz - Undark
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Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

Truck pollution standards to be updated

Julia Kane - Grist
People demonstrate with placards at an emergency meeting of the Brevard County, Florida School Board in Viera to discuss whether face masks in local schools should be mandatory. An executive order signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banning mask mandates in schools was thrown out by a Florida judge on Friday. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Covid still threatens millions

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Shadow of a tick on a leaf (Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Deer-tick virus could be next epidemic

Matthew Rozsa
A participant seen holding a Housing Works banner at the protest. On World AIDS Day, the End AIDS New York Community Coalition gathered outside Governor Cuomo's offices in Manhattan, to convene at a rally and press conference, demanding Governor Cuomo to make good on his commitment to end AIDS as an epidemic in New York State, in a full and equitable manner that eliminates persistent HIV health disparities based on race, poverty, and marginalized identities. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The AIDS crisis isn't over

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

COVID inmates die asking for release

LJ Dawson - KFF Health News
People tour the Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village in Highland Park. The now completed 6.8-acre site within Arroyo Seco Park is the largest tiny home village in the United States, providing 117 housing units and 224 non-congregate beds as transitional residences for people experiencing homelessness in the Highland Park community. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Tiny-homes as a solution to homelessness

Giles Bruce - KFF Health News
Pregnant mother holding her stomach (Getty Images)

Diagnosing fetal alcohol syndromes

Emma Yasinski - Undark
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
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