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August 11, 2014
Howard Markel
How Scary Is This Ebola Outbreak?
An expert on epidemics answers your questions
July 25, 2014
Rebecca Leber
The Hidden, Horrifying Impacts of Climate Change
It's not all hurricanes and floods. Expect sewage in your drinking water.
July 15, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Right-Wing Xenophobes Are Spreading Lies About Migrant Diseases
Welcome to the latest chapter in America's long, ugly history of nativism
February 12, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
A Controversial New Study Says Mammograms Don't Save Lives. Should We Believe It?
February 5, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Why CVS Is Halting Tobacco Sales, in Three Charts
September 24, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Startling New Map: 92 Percent of New HIV Cases are in 25 Percent of Counties
January 31, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Flu Shots in the Firehouse
How to Survive Our Doctor Shortage
December 15, 1941
Bruce Bliven
In 1941, We Thought We Were on the Cusp of Eradicating All Airborne Diseases

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