Health

A Pandemic Silver Lining in Senegal

Oxygen was a crucial COVID treatment. Now it’s helping treat children with pneumonia.

The End of Evusheld

If you’re immunocompromised, this … isn’t great.

We Could All Learn a Thing or Two From Fans of Lousy Sports Teams

The Washington Wizards bring me endless pain. So why do I keep rooting for them?

It’s a Bad Time to Be a Booster Slacker

Americans aren’t getting the new bivalent COVID shot. What does that mean for the looming winter wave?

The Pet-Name Trend Humans Can’t Resist

Why would anyone name their dog Kyle?

The Great Pandemic Hand-Washing Blooper

Should you wash your hands? Yes. Does it matter for respiratory viruses? Not as much as we once thought.

The Bivalent Shot Might Lay You Out

But double the spike proteins doesn’t mean double the fevers and chills.

What Europe’s COVID Wave Means for the U.S.

New variants are coming. How worried should we be?

It’s Gotten Awkward to Wear a Mask

“It’s like showing up in a weird hat.”

Desperate Americans Are Getting Botox for Their Teeth

When mouth guards fail, are injections the answer?

The COVID Data That Are Actually Useful Now

Move over, case rates and hospitalizations. The next generation of COVID tracking is here.

Don’t Pay for Cord-Blood Banking

Umbilical blood can be a valuable treatment for rare diseases. But that doesn’t mean you need to pay thousands of dollars to bank your baby’s.

Doctors Still Struggle to Diagnose a Condition That Kills More Americans Than Stroke

Can computers crack the code of sepsis?

The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next Pandemic

N95s are good. Some scientists want to do much better.

Medium COVID Could Be the Most Dangerous COVID

After you’re infected, the first few months may pose the greatest risks.

I Was Allergic to Cats. Until Suddenly, I Wasn’t.

No one quite knows why some allergies disappear and others don’t.

What Doctors Still Don’t Understand About Long COVID

Even mild COVID-19 is at least correlated with a startlingly wide spectrum of seemingly every illness. We need a much better taxonomy to address people’s suffering.

Warning Signs About the First Post-pandemic Winter

It may not be as bad as last year’s … but it certainly won’t be good.

The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear

All of this will happen again.

Effective Altruism’s Philosopher King Just Wants to Be Practical

“Somehow people feel like unless you’re doing the most extreme version of your views, then it’s not justified,” Will MacAskill says.