17 January 2025

Category: Health

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What It Will Take to Avoid a Tripledemic This Winter RSV, the flu, and COVID-19 are racing towards us this winter, but we have the tools to fight back and focus on the most vulnerable. By Dr. Ashish K. Jha September 22, 2023

Over the coming months, more than 100,000 Americans will likely die, mostly unnecessarily, from respiratory infections. Yes, that is the reality we are now facing this fall and winterand likely every fall and winter for the foreseeable future. Unless we act. Between flu, COVID-19, and RSV, we are likely looking at a very large number […]

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Colleges Get Creative to Boost Mental Health Faculty, staff, and even students are now helping to support well-being on college campuses. By Jamie Ducharme September 21, 2023

After the pandemic shut down Duke Universitys campus in 2020, public-policy professor Nick Carnes worried about how his students would fare both educationally and emotionally. Wanting to help in whatever way he could, he added a simple message to his email signature. A note to students, he wrote. Please let me or another Duke professor […]

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Biden Administration Announces Free Covid Tests Again The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25. By Will Weissert / AP September 20, 2023

WASHINGTON The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household aiming to prevent possible shortages during a rise in coronavirus cases that has typically come during colder months. […]

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What Psychedelics Teach Us About Play Psychedelics, while not magic bullets, hold great magic. One of them is to invoke our ability to play, writes Ross Ellenhorn. By Ross Ellenhorn September 20, 2023

We are in the midst of a new psychedelic renaissance. Drugs like MDMA and psilocybin are being ushered into mainstream medicine, promoted as miracle cures for a host of psychiatric woes. But as psychedelics come to be seen as treatments for various types of psychological suffering, we are overlooking one of their most precious offerings: […]

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The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever

In a neat little neighborhood in Venice, Calif., theres a block of squat, similar homes, filled with mortals spending their finite days on the planet eating pizza with friends, blowing out candles on birthday cakes, and binging late-night television. Halfway down the street, theres a cavernous black modern box. This is where Bryan Johnson is […]

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The Case for Mediocrity

The night before my first book came out, I lay awake envisioning all the ways it could ruin my life. What if I get sued because I made a mistake? What if I get harassed online? What if I get such bad reviews I never work in journalism again? Id spent the past 18 months […]

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