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    C.D.C. Director Warns of a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’

    As the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels outbreaks in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and...

    Measuring the Cost of Racial Abuse in Soccer

    Like many soccer fans around the world, Paolo Falco, a labor economist at the University of Copenhagen, was delighted by the outcome of the...

    Overlooked No More: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Who Battled Prejudice in Medicine

    Her house, at 67 Joy Street, now has a plaque honoring her and is a stop on the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.From that house,...

    It’s Hard to Search for a Therapist of Color. These Websites Want to Change That.

    Other organizations go a step further and help patients set up therapy appointments. The nonprofit Black Men Heal, for example, offers up to eight...

    Ford and Mellon Foundations Expand Initiative for Disabled Artists

    The Disability Futures initiative, a fellowship established by the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations last fall to support disabled artists, is expanding. The...

    The Unknowability of Other People’s Pain

    Late every Christmas Eve, he’d tell me about it again. Eight-year-old P.J. had stepped on an old can that cut through his tattered shoe....

    Americans are Flocking to Mexico. Should They Be?

    “During Covid, bookings never slowed down,” she said, noting that some resorts are planning to begin charging for the tests later this month, with...

    Surgeon General Assails Tech Companies Over Misinformation on Covid-19

    President Biden’s surgeon general on Thursday used his first formal advisory to the United States to deliver a broadside against tech and social media...

    Homeopathic Doctor Is Charged With Selling Fake Covid-19 Vaccine Cards

    A homeopathic doctor in California is the first person to face federal charges for selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, the authorities said.The doctor, Juli...

    ¿Quieres controlar tu peso? Levantar pesas podría ayudarte

    Estos hombres y mujeres habían completado la típica serie de mediciones de salud y estado físico durante sus visitas a la clínica y también...

    Cleveland Clinic Says It Won’t Administer Aduhelm to Patients

    In a striking reflection of concern over the approval of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, the Cleveland Clinic said Wednesday evening that it...

    What to Know About the Delta Variant

    What to Know About the Delta VariantEmily AnthesReporting on the coronavirusDoes the Delta variant cause different symptoms?It’s not clear yet. In Britain, reports have...

    How to Find an L.G.B.T.-Friendly Pediatrician

    A practice that is trying to welcome these questions will have thought about what is communicated on the website, at the front desk, and...

    U.S. Officials Press Pfizer for More Evidence of Need for Booster Shot

    “Americans who have been fully vaccinated do not need a booster shot at this time,” the statement said, adding, “We are prepared for booster...

    Drug Deaths Set Records Last Year, and It Wasn’t Just Because of Covid

    As Covid raged, so did the country’s other epidemic. Drug overdose deaths rose nearly 30 percent in...

    How Walking Can Build Up the Brain

    These past studies of brain plasticity generally focused on gray matter, though, which contains the celebrated little gray cells, or neurons, that permit and...