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    Weekly Health Quiz: Coronavirus, Drugs and Dental Problems

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    How I Finally Got to Know My Father by Asking About His Past

    My father began, “Well, it was nice talking to you.”“Wait!” I said. “You haven’t talked to me yet!”“We’ll talk when we see each other,”...

    Trump Loyalists Tried to Influence C.D.C. Virus Reports

    “These cases are clusters,” Linda Vail, a county health officer, said in an interview on Saturday evening. “Here, there and everywhere. We have a...

    The Causes of Estrangement, and How Families Heal

    A 21-year-old college student who hasn’t spoken to her mother since high school.A woman who cannot get along with her daughter-in-law, and who therefore...

    ‘Covid Will Not Win’: Meet the Force Powering Brooklyn Hospital

    ‘Covid Will Not Win’: Meet the Force Powering Brooklyn HospitalBy Victor J. Blue, Sheri Fink and Catrin EinhornPhotographs by Victor J. BlueDuring the surge...

    A Global Health Star Under Fire

    Former and current employees accuse Dr. Lucica Ditiu, leader of Stop TB, of harassment and bullying. The complaints threaten to slow prevention efforts worldwide. Source...

    Shere Hite, Who Challenged Myths of Female Sexuality, Dies at 77

    Both later books were widely criticized as relying on unrepresentative samples of respondents. After the publication of “Women and Love,” which Time magazine said...

    Fauci Says It Could Be a Year Before Theater Without Masks Feels Normal

    As theaters look to see how they might reopen with safety accommodations including mask use, Dr. Anthony Fauci says it will likely be more...

    Missed Vaccines, Skipped Colonoscopies: Preventive Care Plummets

    When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Americans vastly scaled back their preventive health care, and there is little sign that this deferred care will be...

    Coronavirus Vaccine: 9 Drug Companies Pledge to ‘Stand With Science’

    Nine pharmaceutical companies issued a joint pledge on Tuesday that they would “stand with science” and not put forward a vaccine until it had...

    If You See Someone Not Wearing a Mask, Do You Say Something?

    As the sociologist Erving Goffman pointed out, within groups, people generally seek to “pass” and to avoid behaving in ways that others may see...

    From Asia to Africa, China Promotes Its Vaccines to Win Friends

    The Philippines will have quick access to a Chinese coronavirus vaccine. Latin American and Caribbean nations will receive $1 billion in loans to buy...

    AstraZeneca Pauses Vaccine Trial for Safety Review

    A spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration declined to comment.A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said...

    New York Will Test the Dead More Often for Coronavirus and Flu

    Cough, fever, chills — with fall fast on the way, symptoms alone won’t be useful in distinguishing Covid-19 from similar-looking cases of the flu....

    The Risks of the Prescribing Cascade

    A popular treatment for high blood pressure, which afflicts a huge proportion of older people, is a common precipitant of the prescribing cascade, Dr....

    Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth. What’s Going On?

    When I reopened my dental practice in early June, the tooth fractures started coming in: at least one a day, every single day that...