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Nicole Karlis is an award-winning staff writer at Salon, specializing in health and science. She is also the author of the upcoming book “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.”

Empty ampoules containing Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine (Imvanex / Jynneos) stand in a box on a table at Klinikum rechts der Isar. (Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Is monkeypox officially a pandemic? Here’s what experts say

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Pfizer's Paxlovid is displayed on July 07, 2022 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

COVID-positive Biden experiences a Paxlovid “rebound.” Doctors still aren’t sure why they happen

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Young girl holding a menstrual pad and clutching her abdomen in pain from cramps (Getty Images/Satjawat Boontanataweepol)

Girls are reaching puberty earlier and earlier. No one is sure why

Nicole Karlis
Supporters of President Donald Trump hold up their phones with messages referring to the QAnon conspiracy theory at a campaign rally at Las Vegas Convention Center on February 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A stronger social safety net could reduce the number of conspiracy theorists, researchers say

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U.S. President Joe Biden covers his mouth as he coughs while remotely attending a meeting on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House on July 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Joe Biden is working remotely while he has COVID-19. Experts say you probably shouldn’t do that

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Heatwave hot sun (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

How extreme heat increases your risk of death, no matter where you are

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A couple taking a selfie with their dogs (Getty Images/Thanasis Zovoilis)

Dog parent–shaming is the new mom-shaming: Why the internet is furious over your pet-rearing skills

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A nurse gives a little girl a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while her brother covers his eyes at a vaccination site for 5-11 year-olds at Eastmonte Park. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why are fewer children around the world getting vaccinated?

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Man takes a PCR swab test at Gatwick Airport on November 27, 2020 in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Experts still torn on whether you should swab your throat when taking COVID tests

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A woman receives her Covid-19 vaccination booster jab at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health & Wellbeing Centre on November 10, 2021 in the Stratford area of London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

The latest COVID conspiracy claims multiple booster shots wreck your immune system

Nicole Karlis
Abortion drug pills and drinking water (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

Federal government warns rebel pharmacists who refuse to fill abortion pill prescriptions

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PCR tests inside vials awaiting testing inside an on-site laboratory for COVID-19 beside the departures hall at Sydney Airport on November 23, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

No, “stealth omicron” isn’t evading PCR tests. Here’s what’s really going on

Nicole Karlis
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star on July 12, 2022 in space. The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb's unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

The James Webb Telescope has already found previously-undetected water on a distant planet

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AR-15 semi-automatic rifle is displayed on a wall of guns during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

A surgeon explains why AR-15-style rifles are so deadly

Nicole Karlis
White Italian Greyhound puppy posing in front of a large mirror (Getty Images/Melissa Ross)

Can any animal recognize its reflection? New studies shake up old ideas

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Patients gather in the counseling area at one of the last remaining abortion providers in the South, at the Jackson Women's Health Organization also known as The Pink House in Jackson, MS on June 7, 2022. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Post-Roe, waiting periods for abortions will be even more dangerous

Nicole Karlis
An NHS staff prepares to administer the Covid-19 vaccination booster jab during a press tour at a vaccination center (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Omicron-targeted boosters could be here by fall. Here’s what we know

Nicole Karlis
Fireworks in the shape of smiling faces are sent during the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 9, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

We asked experts how they make fireworks that explode into shapes

Nicole Karlis
Doctor examining belly of expectant mother in hospital room (Getty Images/staticnak1983)

In some states, women will be forced to carry pregnancies with lethal fetal anomalies

Nicole Karlis
Mom breastfeeding a baby (Getty Images/istetiana)

Parents react to updated AAP guidelines on breastfeeding

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IUD (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Birth control access could be next for SCOTUS to roll back: “There’s no doubt Griswold is at risk”

Nicole Karlis
A protester holds a placard saying, "Vaginas are more regulated than guns, maybe my vagina should start shooting bullets," during a Women's March to demand safe and legal access to abortion. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Pregnant people are scrambling to reschedule abortions cancelled in trigger law states

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In this photo illustration, a person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy from Mifepristone displayed on a smartphone. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

How to access abortion in a post-Roe world

Nicole Karlis
Two young women show tampons they made out of menstrual pads similar to those they would make while incarcerated at the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center in Winchester, VA, from their temporary home at Friends of Guest House, a residential re-entry program for female non-violent offenders, in Alexandria, VA, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Allison Shelley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Is it safe to use homemade tampons?

Nicole Karlis
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