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Topic: Health (page 48)

A butcher wears a mask and gloves as he works to deconstruct a lamb while at Marin Sun Farms Butcher Shop in Oakland, Calif. Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Why the meat myth is harmful

Jennifer Barckley - Independent Media Institute
Doctor talking to distressed patient (Getty Images)

Words can hurt (or heal) in healthcare

Erin Petersen-Edge
Building of the company Johnson and Johnson | Vaccine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't fear the vaccine warnings

Justin Vesser - The Conversation
(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Umbilical cord screenings & stillbirths

Claire Marie Porter - Undark
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The funeral of victims of a Nazi bombing in London during WW2 | Funeral workers bury the coffins of Covid-19 victims at a cemetery on July 19, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Life expectancy drop not just from COVID

Matthew Rozsa
A Juul vaping system with accessory pods in varying flavors (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Did Juul pay for junk science?

Jon Skolnik
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
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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
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
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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
(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
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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
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
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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
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
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