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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.”

Senior Asian woman rubbing her hands in discomfort, suffering from arthritis in her hand while sitting on sofa at home. (Getty Images/AsiaVision)

Women are far more likely to develop autoimmune diseases. A new study may have finally cracked why

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Sad young adult woman patient | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Devastating”: Restricting abortion drug access would inflict unnecessary suffering for miscarriages

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A sign welcoming patients from East Texas is displayed in the waiting area of the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

“Impossible to enforce”: Attempts to ban abortion travel are scare tactics, legal expert says

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People gather to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Abortion exceptions “have no meaning at all” — and estimates of pregnancies by rape prove it

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Doctor examining a newborn baby at a maternity hospital and listening to his heartbeat (Getty Images/andresr)

COVID-19 vaccines prove safe for pregnant women, yet hesitancy remains high

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Young Boy in Bed with Measles in Home of U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) Borrower, Greene County, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano. circa June, 1941. (Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How “The Brady Bunch” facilitates misplaced nostalgia about measles on social media

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A banner reading 'Keep abortion safe and legal - someone you love may need a choice' at a National March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC, 9th March 1986. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Will Roe v. Wade ever be restored? How certain legal challenges could reinstate abortion protections

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Committee chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) shakes hands with long Covid patient Nicole Heim as he arrives for a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing titled "Addressing Long COVID: Advancing Research and Improving Patient Care" on Capitol Hill January 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

“Living through a mass disabling event”: Will Congress finally take long COVID patients seriously?

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Heap of bovine colostrum powder on plate and white plastic container with measuring scoop (Getty Images/Tatiana Sidorova)

Colostrum craze: Why the “liquid gold” of cow milk is stirring up wellness TikTok

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A measles vaccine is prepared on September 10, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

Expect more measles outbreaks in 2024, health experts warn

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Man in car gesticulating angrily at another driver (Getty Images/Sean Murphy)

Here’s why road rage is on the rise

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Woman Suffering From A Cold Lying In Bed (Getty Images/Obradovic)

The coronavirus could mutate to cause more severe disease, according to experts

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Boy Watching Television (Getty Images/Hans L Bonnevier, Johner)

TV screen time associated with sensory differences in toddlerhood, study finds

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An artist's impression of exoplanet WASP-69b orbiting its host star. (Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory)

“There’s room for a richer definition”: Astronomers debate rethinking what makes a planet habitable

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Young Woman in a Doctor's Office (Getty Images/Ron Nickel)

“It doesn’t make sense”: What happens when life-saving abortion isn’t protected, despite federal law

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An artist's impression of exoplanet WASP-69b orbiting its host star. (Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory)

Astronomers discover “hot Jupiter” has a 350,000-mile-long tail

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A woman using a dropper for taking few drops of a supplement from a bottle at home (Getty Images/Brothers91)

Why a supplement that tints skin blue is all the rage among alternative health circles

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Woman Suffers Stomach Pains (Getty Images/Grace Cary)

New research reveals the strange ways gut bacteria breathe without oxygen, influencing our health

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Medical examiner holding urine cup (Getty Images/Andrii Atanov)

Scientists solve mystery behind why pee is yellow

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World Health Organization's technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove speaks on during a press conference on the World Health Organization's 75th anniversary in Geneva, on April 6, 2023. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

WHO leader says COVID-19 is “still a pandemic”

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In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

As abortion access shrinks, people are stockpiling pills. But it’s not always those who need it most

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Man consulting his doctor about drug medicine online (Getty Images/mixetto)

The future of birth control is sharing the burden with men — and could be here sooner than you think

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Supporters of Ohio Issue 1 cheer at a watch party hosted by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights on November 7, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. 2023 Ohio Issue 1, officially titled "The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety," would codify reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution, including contraception, fertility treatment and the right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability while permitting restrictions after. (Andrew Spear/Getty Images)

5 moments of hope for reproductive rights in 2023

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A group of people wear face masks as they walk past the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

A new COVID variant is now dominant in the U.S. Will it cause another massive surge like Omicron?

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