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Corinna Kern / laif / Redux The Surprising Reason for the Decline in Cancer Mortality
Behavioral changes and screenings may be just as important as treatments, if not more so.
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Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post / … Telehealth Is Filling Gaps in Sexual-Assault Care
Without it, some survivors would have to drive hours to access expert nurses.
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NoonVirachada / Getty A Mysterious Syndrome Can Strike Decades After Polio
As the number of polio doctors dwindles, the disease’s survivors are suffering alone.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty The Great Big Medicare Rip-Off
The government is leaving billions of dollars on the table. Here’s how to fix it.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Does a Good Health-Care System Look Like?
Readers share insights from the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia.
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The Atlantic The Future of Monkeypox
As case numbers fall, the outbreak could become entrenched.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Pandemic Broke the Flu ... Again
COVID knocked flu, RSV, and other respiratory diseases out of whack. When will they be back to normal?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Do You Really Want to Read What Your Doctor Writes About You?
You’re now allowed to see everything physicians say about you in their notes. It’s complicated.
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Ruben Bonilla Gonzalo / Getty Doctors Are Failing Patients With Disabilities
Decades after the ADA passed, medical care still isn’t accessible.
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The Atlantic Don’t Pay for Cord-Blood Banking
Umbilical blood can be a valuable treatment for rare diseases. But that doesn’t mean you need to pay thousands of dollars to bank your baby’s.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Doctors Still Struggle to Diagnose a Condition That Kills More Americans Than Stroke
Can computers crack the code of sepsis?
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The Atlantic When’s the Perfect Time to Get a Flu Shot?
Experts can’t agree.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases
Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients.
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Kevin Faingnaert for The Atlantic Did a Famous Doctor’s COVID Shot Make His Cancer Worse?
A lifelong promoter of vaccines suspects he might be the rare, unfortunate exception.
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Nature Picture Library / Alamy The Fatal Error of an Ancient, HIV-Like Virus
It got too cozy with its host.
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BSIP / Universal Images Group / Getty Would You Be Okay Getting a Doctorless Surgery?
Robots could someday be fully autonomous in operating rooms. Their biggest challenge might have nothing to do with the technology.
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Shah Marai / Getty Polio Is Exploiting a Very Human Weakness
The world has been so close to eradicating polio for so long—which is exactly why the virus is staging a comeback now.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Should Your Flu and COVID Shots Go in Different Arms?
Welcome to the two-vaccine conundrum.
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Hoi Chan The Diagnosis Trap
Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. But what about the stories we tell ourselves?
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Jim Wilson / The New York Times / … Are We Really Getting COVID Boosters Every Year Forever?
Prepare yourself for a lifetime of fall vaccine campaigns.
