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Your Doctor Won’t See You Now—or Ever Again

October 24, 2024October 24, 2024 - by Monica Kidd

Why family medicine is dying

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The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick

October 21, 2024October 25, 2024 - by Jonathan N. Stea

Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything

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Menopause Is a Pretty Damn Fine Stage of Life

October 17, 2024October 28, 2024 - by Susan Glickman

The joy of aging like a “space crone”

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To Get into Medical School, I Thought I’d Have to Hide Parts of My Blackness

October 14, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Chika Stacy Oriuwa

But then came a question I wasn’t prepared for

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The Opioid Crisis Is Surging. We’re Still Ignoring Experts

August 15, 2024August 15, 2024 - by Taylor C. Noakes

The perils of prioritizing politics over public health

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The Ozempic Era Is Distorting What We See as Healthy

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024 - by KC Hoard

Fat people are constantly told they have to shed pounds. What will weight loss–inducing medicines really cost us?

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Health / July/August 2024 / Memoir

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

June 26, 2024July 29, 2024 - by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

My blood and how it speaks to me have become sources of my courage, my decisiveness, my quelling of self-doubt

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You Can’t Talk Your Way Out of Depression

June 25, 2024June 25, 2024 - by Misty Pratt

The best way to heal your mind is by paying attention to your body

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Health / May 2024

Antibiotics May Soon Become Useless

March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 - by Monica Kidd

Doctors are looking to an experimental treatment for help

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Don’t Get Sick in Quebec

February 21, 2024March 21, 2024 - by Toula Drimonis

What happens when a government decides to prioritize language laws over nurses and doctors?

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Your Doctor Won’t See You Now—or Ever Again

Menopause Is a Pretty Damn Fine Stage of Life

The Opioid Crisis Is Surging. We’re Still Ignoring Experts

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

You Can’t Talk Your Way Out of Depression

Antibiotics May Soon Become Useless

Don’t Get Sick in Quebec

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