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ANNALS OF MEDICINE



 * CAN WE PREDICT WHICH VIRUSES WILL SPREAD FROM ANIMALS TO HUMANS?
   
   COVID, MONKEYPOX, EBOLA, AND SARS ALL ORIGINATED IN ANIMALS. SOME RESEARCHERS
   THINK WE CAN PREDICT WHAT’S NEXT, WHILE OTHERS BELIEVE IT’S AN IMPOSSIBLE
   TASK.
   
   By Matthew Hutson
   
   SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

 * THE PREVENTABLE TRAGEDY OF POLIO IN NEW YORK
   
   POLIO IS ONE OF THE FEW DISEASES THAT CAN BE ERADICATED—BUT FALTERING
   VACCINATION RATES COULD UNDO YEARS OF HARD-WON GLOBAL PROGRESS.
   
   By Dhruv Khullar
   
   AUGUST 22, 2022

 * WHY A LIFE-THREATENING PREGNANCY COMPLICATION IS ON THE RISE
   
   THE RATE OF PREECLAMPSIA HAD BEEN CLIMBING STEADILY FOR YEARS. THEN COVID-19
   ARRIVED, AND THE NUMBERS SPIKED.
   
   By Jessica Winter
   
   AUGUST 12, 2022

 * THE COMPLICATED LIFE OF THE ABORTION PILL
   
   A FRENCH DOCTOR’S INVENTION AND POST-ROE AMERICA.
   
   By Lauren Collins
   
   JULY 5, 2022

 * WAITING AT A TEXAS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN WHO NEVER ARRIVE
   
   WE WANTED TO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THEM, BUT THEN WE WANTED THEM HERE.
   
   By Rachel Pearson
   
   MAY 27, 2022

 * WHAT THE “LIFE OF THE MOTHER” MIGHT MEAN IN A POST-ROE AMERICA
   
   “WE ARE GOING TO SEE MORE DEATHS AND MORE INJURIES,” GHAZALEH MOAYEDI, AN
   OB-GYN IN DALLAS, SAID. “I DON’T HAVE TO SPECULATE ABOUT THAT AT ALL.”
   
   By Jessica Winter
   
   MAY 12, 2022

 * ARE WE ABOUT TO CURE SICKLE-CELL DISEASE?
   
   NEW GENE THERAPIES HOLD EXTRAORDINARY PROMISE, BUT THEY MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH
   TO OVERCOME A MEDICAL SYSTEM THAT MARGINALIZES BLACK AMERICANS.
   
   By Dhruv Khullar
   
   MARCH 22, 2022

 * INSIDE THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S FIGHT OVER SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE
   
   A LONG-STANDING BATTLE HIGHLIGHTS A PROFESSION’S POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION.
   
   By Clifford Marks
   
   FEBRUARY 22, 2022

 * BEYOND THE BOOSTER SHOT
   
   COULD A “BROAD SPECTRUM” BOOSTER INCREASE OUR IMMUNITY TO MANY PATHOGENS
   SIMULTANEOUSLY?
   
   By Matthew Hutson
   
   FEBRUARY 8, 2022

 * COULD ONE SHOT KILL THE FLU?
   
   A “UNIVERSAL” FLU VACCINE COULD BRING ONE OF THE WORLD’S LONGEST PANDEMICS TO
   AN END.
   
   By Matthew Hutson
   
   NOVEMBER 22, 2021

 * A DOCTOR, A PATIENT, AND THEIR POETRY
   
   IN SOME WAYS, WRITING WAS THE BEST TREATMENT.
   
   By Ofole Mgbako
   
   NOVEMBER 10, 2021

 * MEDICINE’S WELLNESS CONUNDRUM
   
   PATIENTS WANT ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES. HOW CAN HOSPITALS OFFER THEM WITHOUT
   PUTTING MEDICAL INTEGRITY AT RISK?
   
   By Jessica Wapner
   
   NOVEMBER 6, 2021

 * THE TWO-DECADE DELAY IN LYME-DISEASE VACCINES
   
   INITIALLY HALTED BY PUBLIC FEARS, A PREVENTIVE TREATMENT COULD BE HERE IN TWO
   YEARS.
   
   By Sue Halpern
   
   AUGUST 19, 2021

 * HOW WILL THE CORONAVIRUS EVOLVE?
   
   DELTA WON’T BE THE LAST VARIANT. WHAT WILL THE NEXT ONES BRING?
   
   By Dhruv Khullar
   
   AUGUST 11, 2021

 * COEXISTING WITH THE CORONAVIRUS
   
   COVID-19 IS LIKELY TO BECOME AN ENDEMIC DISEASE. HOW WILL OUR IMMUNE SYSTEMS
   RESIST IT?
   
   By Katherine S. Xue
   
   JULY 21, 2021

 * HEIDI LARSON, VACCINE ANTHROPOLOGIST
   
   THE WORLD’S RICHEST COUNTRIES ARE NOW ITS MOST VACCINE-HESITANT. CAN WE LEARN
   TO TRUST OUR SHOTS BEFORE THE NEXT PANDEMIC?
   
   By Danielle Ofri
   
   JUNE 12, 2021

 * WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO PANDEMIC-PROOF AMERICA?
   
   WHEN THE NEXT VIRUS STRIKES, WE’LL LOOK BACK ON THIS MOMENT AS AN OPPORTUNITY
   THAT WE EITHER SEIZED OR SQUANDERED.
   
   By Dhruv Khullar
   
   APRIL 15, 2021

 * THE LAST TIME A VACCINE SAVED AMERICA
   
   SIXTY-SIX YEARS AGO, PEOPLE CELEBRATED THE POLIO VACCINE BY EMBRACING IN THE
   STREETS. OUR VACCINE STORY IS BOTH MORE EXTRAORDINARY AND MORE COMPLICATED.
   
   By Howard Markel
   
   APRIL 12, 2021

 * WHY COVID-19 VACCINES AREN’T YET AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE
   
   PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS PROMISED THAT ALL ADULTS WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A
   VACCINE BY MAY. BUT MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING ENOUGH DOSES WILL DEPEND
   ON A LOT OF THINGS GOING RIGHT.
   
   By Sue Halpern
   
   MARCH 13, 2021

 * ATUL GAWANDE ON CORONAVIRUS VACCINES AND PROSPECTS FOR ENDING THE PANDEMIC
   
   THE NEW YORKER STAFF WRITER, NOW A MEMBER OF PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN’S COVID-19
   ADVISORY BOARD, DISCUSSES WHEN A VACCINE MIGHT BE READY FOR DISTRIBUTION, WHO
   SHOULD RECEIVE IT, AND WHETHER ERADICATING THE VIRUS IS POSSIBLE.
   
   By David Remnick
   
   DECEMBER 4, 2020

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