Enlarge / Dental students, working as volunteers, attend to patients at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on October 7, 2023 in Grundy, Virginia. More than a thousand people were expected to seek free dental, medical and vision care at the two-day event in the rural and financially struggling area of ..
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Zach Gibson/Getty Images reader comments 374 with Three landmark Supreme Court decisions in 2022 have each been widely criticized by health experts as threats to public health, but a study released Thursday in JAMA Network Open modeled their collective toll. The study found that, by conservative estimates, the decisions will lead to thousands of deaths ..
Enlarge / A woman watches white flags on the National Mall on September 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. Over 660,000 white flags were installed here to honor Americans who have lost their lives to COVID-19 epidemic. reader comments 203 with 108 posters participating Share this story An estimated 14.91 million people worldwide died in 2020 ..
reader comments 313 with 172 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories A grim series of articles published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes clear just how hard the United States has failed at controlling the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic—from the country’s horrifying death toll to its inability ..
Enlarge / A close-up of a box of Dexamethasone tablets in a pharmacy on June 16, 2020 in Cardiff, United Kingdom. reader comments 33 with 26 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Researchers at the University of Oxford announced Tuesday that a cheap, readily available steroid drug lowered the risk of ..
Enlarge / US President Donald Trump arrives for a “Keep America Great” campaign rally at Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio, on January 9, 2020. reader comments 144 with 92 posters participating Share this story The CEO of the American Cancer Society has refuted President Trump’s claim that his administration had a hand in lowering the ..
Enlarge / If you’re bad, you get coal. reader comments 41 with 32 posters participating Share this story A lot of the discussions about switching sources of electricity focus on costs, specifically whether going renewable will cost more than fossil fuels. But the costs of fossil fuels go well beyond simply the costs of supplying ..