Donald Trump may only be president for another four years, but the impacts of his administration on public health could be catastrophic for a long time to come. While we don’t know exactly what will happen, there’s no doubt the next four years could see attempts to curtail the authority and autonomy of federal health […]
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After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive. He was not expected to survive after that diagnosis, and even when he beat those odds, his life was mostly constrained by a machine in which he could
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On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published a landmark paper in Nature, proposing the double helix as the long elusive structure of DNA, a discovery that a decade later earned the men the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the final paragraph of the paper, they acknowledged that they had been
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“March is such a blur.” “I have like so many dried goods. I’m just so desperate for a mango.” “Banging our pots and pans at 7:00 p.m.” “No one can possibly be in their right mind right now.” “We went into prayer mode.” “From their view from the outside, like, New York is on fire.”
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New Year’s resolutions have become a bit of a joke. Folks in the health and fitness industry get frustrated with clients desperate to shed holiday weight gain, only to ghost them in February. Gym goers feel annoyed when their normal routine is interrupted by the January rush. (C’mon, line-ups for the squat rack?!) And then
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