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The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life

Sophie Caldwell

While that collective experience is enough to have taught us how the body responds when gravity’s pull is substantially reduced, the magnetosphere still shields the I.S.S., and only the 24…

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Infants Are Born With Syphilis in Growing Numbers, a Sign of a Wider Epidemic

Sophie Caldwell

The rise in sexually transmitted infections in the United States has taken a particularly tragic turn: More than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in 2022, roughly 11 times…

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Senate Confirms Monica Bertagnolli as NIH Director

Sophie Caldwell

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon who currently leads the National Cancer Institute, as the next director of the National Institutes of Health, overriding…

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The Only People Who Understand What a Caregiver Goes Through

Sophie Caldwell

On Thursday mornings, Julia Sadtler and Debora Dunbar log onto Zoom to talk about caring for their husbands with Alzheimer’s disease, in hourlong conversations that are usually informative, sometimes emotional…

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At Least 2 Million Children Have Lost Medicaid Insurance This Year

Sophie Caldwell

At least two million low-income children have lost health insurance since the end of a federal policy that guaranteed coverage through Medicaid earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new…

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How To Deal With Sexual Side Effects of SSRI Antidepressants

Sophie Caldwell

Antidepressants have long been among the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. Their popularity only grew at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, when many people struggled with depression…