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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during his Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy is testifying for a second day following a tense three-hour hearing before the Senate Finance Committee where he clashed with Democrats over his stance on vaccines and abortion rights. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

RFK could fumble a bad flu season

Young female patient in the clinic suffering a coughing fit while the doctor listens to the her lungs with a stethoscope. (Getty Images/stefanamer)

Is it seasonal influenza or bird flu?

Sick woman alone in a hospital room (Getty Images/Yoss Sabalet)

Americans more sick than rest of world

A woman wearing a mask and gloves reads a local newspaper amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 21, 2020 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Are people more afraid of illness today?

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Cucumber slices (Photo by Cathy Scola/Getty Images)

500 infections linked to cucumber recall

Michael La Corte

A Muffuletta sandwich at Central Grocery in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

What caused the listeria outbreak?

Ryan Nebeker - FoodPrint

Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Ticks spreading brain-swelling illness

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

Tilda Swinton attends the 2023 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center on March 13, 2023 in Austin, Texas (Chris Saucedo/Getty Images for SXSW)

COVID isn't over, Tilda Swinton

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Annette O'Toole as Hope in "Virgin River" (Courtesy Of Netflix)

In defense of Hope on "Virgin River"

Young adult man wearing a pollution mask to protect himself from viruses. His friends are in the background. They all are wearing masks. (Getty Images)

Young people aren't safe from COVID-19

The University of Minnesota campus was mostly deserted Tuesday afternoon, April 21, 2020. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Welcome to the kingdom of the sick

Trump's cruelty can be used against him

Chauncey DeVega

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Mark Webber and Bodhi Palmer in "The Place of No Words" (Courtesy of Wide Awake Cinema)

Going inside "The Place of No Words"

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Is "Man Flu" real?

Why aren't we curing these diseases?

Katherine J. Wu - The Conversation

This photo taken on Monday, May 26, 2014 and provided by Jill Helmuth, shows a tornado touching down on a reach before heading towards Watford City, N.D. Authorities say several were injured and more than a dozen trailers were damaged or destroyed Monday evening when the twister tore through a camp where oil field workers stay. (AP Photo/Jill Helmuth) (AP)

Americans rate their worst fears

Steven Rosenfeld - Alternet

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Ryan Reynolds in "Deadpool" (Twentieth Century Fox)

How Deadpool gets cancer right

A photo of the author.

I refused to die unpublished

Robin Williams (AP)

Depression didn't kill Robin

A photo of the author (Bill Miller)

How to be useful

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Michael White - Pacific Standard

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Samantha Stainburn - GlobalPost

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