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Topic: Medicine

Displaced Palestinians walk outside the destroyed Islamic University in Gaza City, on March 25, 2025. Israel vows to destroy the Palestinian militant group Hamas and resumes intense bombardment of Gaza on March 18, redeploying ground troops and shattering a truce that has largely held since January 19. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Palestinian ingenuity in a war zone

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Stony Brook, N.Y.: A digital sign directs people to the drive-through coronavirus testing area which began on the main campus of Stony Brook University on March 18, 2020. Those wishing to be tested must first make an appointment. (Photo by John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty Images)

The lessons we didn't learn from COVID

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Elon Musk and a sign for the National Institute of Health (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Musk bites the federal hand that fed him

Amanda Marcotte
Washing carrots in the sink (Getty Images/PeopleImages)

Why some foods can even change skin tone

Michelle Spear - The Conversation
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Colorful market in the seaside town of Trogir, outside of Split, Croatia (Getty Images/Michele Westmorland)

What is the FIM movement?

Cinnamon Janzer - FoodPrint
Little girl coughing into elbow while being at medical clinic (Getty Images/Drazen Zigic)

Whooping cough wave nears decade high

Rae Hodge
Couple sitting on sofa in living room with snacks and soda, watching TV news about medicine, new drugs and treatment (Getty Images/EvgeniyShkolenko)

Why TV drug ads can be misleading

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
A woman demonstrates what a patient would experience in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 28, 2020. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Do psychedelics require a therapist?

Rich Haridy
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Patient man receiving IV drip in hospital (Getty Images/Zinkevych)

Coach's death due to chemo drug shortage

Rae Hodge
Cannabis buds and leaves with lemon (Getty Images/Gleti)

Study: Lemony weed is chill indeed

Rae Hodge
A health worker injects a man with a shot of the Inavac vaccine for Covid-19 at the Jakarta provincial health office on December 19, 2023. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)

One-shot vaccine coming for COVID, flu

Nicole Karlis
A young group of people meeting together at a barbecue are chatting and smiling as they greet each other (Getty Images/Hinterhaus Productions)

Asexuality is not a disorder to be cured

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Customers shop at a supermarket in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 16, 2022. (Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty Images)

"Food is medicine," but only for some

Ashlie D. Stevens
Close-up of Ozempic needle injection pen (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Faux-zempic" driving hospitalizations

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Doctors in surgery (Getty Images/Paul Harizan)

Second pig heart recipient dies

Rae Hodge
Surgeons performing open heart surgery (Getty Images/Thierry Dosogne)

Pig-heart transplant successful

Rae Hodge
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"Food insecurity and healthcare neglect"

Paulina Bleah, Danielle Macdonald, Pilar Camargo-Plazas, Rosemary Wilson - The Conversation
Red pills with DNA structure, medicine concept (Getty Images/D3Damon)

At-home DNA tests and medications

Kayla B. Rowe, Lucas Berenbrok, Philip Empey - The Conversation
A patient at Hillside mental hospital undergoes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), whereby an electric current is passed through the head. Developed in the 1930's, this controversial method is used in the treatment of severe depression in adults. (Carl Purcell/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Mysteries of electroconvulsive therapy

Astrid Landon - Undark
A photo of Henrietta Lacks, sits in the living room of her grandson, Ron Lacks, 57, in Baltimore, MD on March 22, 2017. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Henrietta Lacks family settles lawsuit

Troy Farah
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Psychedelics conference presentation, showing various stone mushrooms (Photo by Rae Hodge)

Science and corporadelics in Colorado

Rae Hodge
Bandaged Hand and Electricity (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Electricity, not time, heals wounds

Matthew Rozsa
Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Doctors are disappearing from ERs

Brett Kelman, Blake Farmer - KFF Health News
A woman demonstrates next to the empty pedestal after workers removed the statue of Dr. James Marion Sims on April 17, 2018, in New York. (THOMAS URBAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

The racist roots of gynecology

Nicole Karlis
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