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Olivia Gieger • September 5, 2024
What to know about how PFAS are affecting your body
Olivia Gieger • March 8, 2024
The risks are low but rising, so cook your shellfish and cover your cuts before swimming
Timmy Broderick • February 21, 2023
Global migraine rates have risen 40% in 20 years, but neurologists are skeptical that the increase is real
Allison Parshall • July 29, 2022
The people of the South Bronx have almost no access to their own coast. South Bronx Unite’s Arif Ullah is working to change that.
Excluding visitors from hospitals may harm patients, families and providers, say health care workers
Lauren Leffer • February 19, 2021
Hospitals and staff have tried to adapt through multiple COVID-19 waves with changing practices and communication tools
Curtis Segarra • January 20, 2020
As syphilis rates surge in the US, Louisiana case workers work hard to develop relationships with vulnerable women
Isobel Whitcomb • November 16, 2018
Early next year, the Allahabad Kumbh Mela festival in India will attract 150 million pilgrims — and even more drug-resistant microbes
Cici Zhang • June 26, 2017
A minority in many ways, Erica Walker is determined to find how urban noise affects human health
Ellie Kincaid • January 23, 2016
How scientists are tracing a virus back in time
Knvul Sheikh • November 10, 2015
Efforts to rein in synthetic cannabinoid drugs are falling behind
Amy Nordrum • June 6, 2014
As the FDA takes its first regulatory steps, state and local governments opt for a cautionary approach toward a controversial product that looks (too much?) like the real thing
Alexa C. Kurzius • July 9, 2013
Educational raps teach Harlem students about healthy eating and exercise
Katie Hiler and Ben Guarino • June 21, 2013
A neighborhood is divided over proposed park
Alexa C. Kurzius • May 22, 2013
Hip-hop gives stroke education a boost in New York City public schools
Roni Jacobson • January 4, 2013
Housing New York’s transient mentally ill