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Illustration by Derek Abella for The Atlantic When Patients Do Their Own Research
At its best, medicine will be a process of shared decision making, and doctors need to be prepared.
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Imagno / Getty Is a Glass of Wine Harmless? Wrong Question.
The latest alcohol advice ignores the value of pleasure.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Paolo Veronese; Getty Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
Let’s focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.
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Eric Gay / AP Don’t Make Your Own Formula
How parents should, and should not, manage the shortage
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Getty; The Atlantic Masking Policy Is Incredibly Irrational Right Now
Why must only the youngest children wear face coverings?
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Nick Oxford / Bloomberg / Getty Kids-Last COVID Policy Makes No Sense
Kids should face fewer restrictions than their parents, not more.
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Paul Bersebach / Orange County Register / Getty Universities Need to Catch Up to the Post-vaccine Reality
Remote learning hurts students.
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The Atlantic The COVID Externalities Have Changed
This phase of the pandemic need not be about individual sacrifice. What’s required now is merely communal common sense.
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Trekandshoot / Alamy / The Atlantic What’s Safe for Kids Now?
Parents need to hear from the CDC.
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Annice Lyn / Getty Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma
Parents should bet on vacations with their kids this summer.
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John Moore / Getty Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders
Fears from the summer appear to have been overblown.
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Jean Gaumy / Magnum Parents Can’t Wait Around Forever
We need to know the facts about kids and COVID-19. Now.
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Samuel Aranda / Panos Pictures / Redux The ‘Just Stay Home’ Message Will Backfire
We need less extreme and more nuanced recommendations for navigating life during the pandemic.
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William Gottlieb / CORBIS / Getty The Chart That Reveals Your Kid’s Adult Height
Researchers crunched longitudinal data to provide a simple predictive equation, and a chart.
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Getty Images Why the C-Section Rate Is So High
A doctor and an economist note that doctors are generally paid quite a bit more for a C-section than for a vaginal birth.
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Associated Press / Steven Senne New Evidence on Pot During Pregnancy
An unusually good study examines how marijuana use in pregnancy may affect birth outcomes.
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d3sign via Getty When Parents Try to Do It All, They Do It Poorly
New parents are given a lot of rules to follow, but little guidance for how to choose among them when constrained.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic End the Plague of Secret Parenting
If mothers and fathers speak openly about child-care obligations, their colleagues will adapt.
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Torsten Mangner/flickr Thinking About Pregnancy Like an Economist
How it became clear that I needed to sort through the valuable, and useless, information — on alcohol, prenatal testing, deli meats — for myself.
