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Our Bodies Process Medicines Best at Certain Times of Day
Patients should get medicines when they’ll be most effective, not at the time that’s most convenient for clinicians.
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Listen: Millennials Are Buying ‘COVID Cars’
How the pandemic is changing how we move—and could alter cities permanently
America’s Terrible Internet Is Making Quarantine Worse
Why millions of students still can’t get online
The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
College Football’s Great Unraveling
The pandemic is bringing the sport face-to-face with its deepest flaws.
Paging Dr. Hamblin: Everyone Wants to Check My Temperature
If fever screens give us a false sense of security, they might be doing more harm than good.
Erin Brockovich Wants to Know What You’re Drinking
Twenty years after her moment in the Hollywood spotlight, the famed water-safety activist has not slowed down.
America’s Authoritarian Governor
Georgia had an early surge of the virus, and now cases are spiking again. Brian Kemp has refused to learn a thing.
Listen: This Episode Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed
Is the pandemic changing science?
What a Doctor Learns From Watching You on Video Chat
Patients and doctors are rediscovering the unexpected virtues and hidden pitfalls of homebound care.