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Viewpont—’Weight gain is not a necessary component of a highly ultra-processed diet’: A nuanced look at America’s ‘deadly diet’

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In the past half century, nutrition scientists have blamed health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease on many ...
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Viewpoint: ‘The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Longevity evangelists argue that it doesn’t have to be this way’

New Yorker |
Many of us have come to expect that our bodies and minds will deteriorate in our final years—that we may ...
‘The third time might not be the charm’: Is there a limit to how many times you can get COVID?

‘The third time might not be the charm’: Is there a limit to how many times you can get COVID?

New Yorker |
One wonders whether the cycle could continue forever—whether many of us will eventually get covid for a fourth time, or a fifth, ...
Sickle cell cure? Gene therapy very promising but trust and racial disparities in healthcare may be barriers

Sickle cell cure? Gene therapy very promising but trust and racial disparities in healthcare may be barriers

New Yorker |
More than a century after sickle-cell disease was first diagnosed, advances in gene therapy are poised to make it not ...
Delta won’t be the last: What challenges might future COVID variants bring?

Delta won’t be the last: What challenges might future COVID variants bring?

New Yorker |
During this pandemic, we’ve developed and deployed vaccines in real time. Meanwhile, sars-CoV-2 is replicating not in a dozen flasks ...