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Nicole Karlis

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Nicole Karlis is a senior writer, covering women’s health, public health, and wellness culture since 2017. Before writing for Salon, she was a contributing editor at The Bold Italic. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and Marie Claire. She is the author of the book Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis. Nicole was the recipient of the USC Center for Health Journalism California Fellowship Project in 2020. In 2023, her story “The Online Baby Sleep Boom,” published in Salon, placed third in the consumer/feature category of the Association of Health Care Journalists Awards. Nicole also writes on Substack, examining what it takes to create a culture that cares.

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Donald Trump listens to other speakers after delivering remarks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on October 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump outlined plans to expand in vitro fertilization access by encouraging workplace benefits to include access to IVF and infertility coverage. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump won’t touch the one thing that could fix fertility rates

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A fact sheet for measles sits on a table at a mobile clinic offering free vaccinations on February 6, 2026 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The clinic offered free MMR vaccinations as the South Carolina Department of Health reported 876 cases of measles earlier in the week, most centered in Spartanburg County. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

“People are choosing this fate”: Measles will get worse before it gets better

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Hand holding scoop of powdered baby formula. (Benjamin Clapp / Getty Images)

Healthy Florida First’s toxic baby formula dilemma

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Mother-to-be (d3sign via Getty Images)

Early pregnancy care declines despite Trump’s pro-birth agenda

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(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Kevin Dietsch / Peter Stark)

Kennedy’s attacks on HPV vaccines could cause cancer to rise

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USA's Elana Meyers Taylor and USA's Kaillie Armbruster Humphries pose for pictures after winning gold and bronze respectively in the bobsleigh women's monobob heat 4 at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Taylor and Humphries have both spoken openly about balancing motherhood and Olympic competition. (Marco BERTORELLO / AFP via Getty Images)

This Winter Olympics is for moms

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USAID flag seen February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

One year later, how Trump’s USAID cuts are affecting the world

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People attend a candlelight vigil organized by healthcare workers at the site where Alex Pretti was killed on January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The vigil was held to remember the lives of Pretti and Renee Good a 37-year-old mother of three children who was killed by ICE agents on January 7. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The momfluencers on the front lines of ICE takeover

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Protesters hold a vigil over the spot where federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, United States, on January 24, 2026. (Photo by Arthur Maiorella/Anadolu via Getty Images)

How Minnesota nice became Minnesota strong

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Donald Trump. Pro-choice protesters. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s new foreign aid ban expands his “cruel” agenda on the world

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Is ChatGPT Health the new WebMD?

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CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 15: A child receives a standard immunization at Doctor Gary M. Kramer, MD, PA's Pediatric office on September 15, 2025, in Coral Gables, Florida. The Florida Department of Health recently released information on the development of rulemaking to revise immunization and document requirements for school entry. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The U.S. models vaccine guidance after Denmark — but forgets the social safety net

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Boy get cold and blow her nose at home. (Vera Livchak / Getty Images)

We’re living through the worst flu season in decades — and it hasn’t yet peaked

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Social and political issue of healthcare and medicine changes and reform in USA politics and policies, symbolized by a close-up of a stethoscope resting on a the cloth fabric of the United States flag.

As federal public health collapses under Trump, states are improvising

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ATLANTA,GEORGIA - SEPTEMBER 29: A Hepatitis B vaccine in Atlanta, Georgia, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Alyssa Pointer for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hepatitis B vaccine delay leaves parents confused

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul puts pregnant women and children at risk

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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 is in charge of flu season — and trouble may be ahead

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Health care costs are skyrocketing. Americans are starting to panic

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Federal agents stand guard as they are confronted by residents on November 06, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

ICE arrest at Chicago day care was “beyond traumatic”

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Parenting in America is hard. Italy showed me another way

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How a loss of public benefits harms democracy

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Maureen Maples with friends at Burning Man 2025. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle / Photos Courtesy of Maureen Maples)

“It could have killed us”: Inside the Burning Man art collapse that injured two people

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Vadim Kruglov in Times Square. At left, an aerial view of Black Rock City, the temporary desert site of Burning Man. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Maxar / Courtesy Kruglov Family)

He went to Burning Man chasing a dream — it ended in mystery

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Signage for the US government's humanitarian agency USAID is seen on a cargo container beside a tricycle in Manila on February 4, 2025. (JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump wants to torch contraception for poor women. So far, Belgium says no

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