Please Don’t Call My Cervix Incompetent
There’s no end to the weird ways medicine describes women’s bodies.
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Wait, Is This Winter Going … Okay?
Experts say things have gone better than expected with COVID, the flu, and RSV. But the bar set by the past few years is awfully low.
Get Used to Expensive Eggs
The bird-flu outbreak fueling America’s egg shortage could be here to stay.
The Coffee Alternative Americans Just Can’t Get Behind
The yerba mate in U.S. grocery stores is nothing like the real brew.
Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even Starts
New data offer hope that chronic illness can be headed off with the right combination of drugs.
Don’t Fear the Handshake
The gesture has survived plenty of outbreaks before COVID, and it will almost certainly outlast more to come.
May the Best Stove Win
Joe Biden isn’t banning gas stoves. They might be doomed anyway.
The Case for ‘Kraken’
Any name for the coronavirus is better than a jumble of letters and numbers.
Are Our Immune Systems Stuck in 2020?
You never forget your first time with SARS-CoV-2.
Maybe Don’t Unleash the Kraken
The ways we’re talking about the coronavirus are only getting weirder.