Health
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Is Long COVID Really a Mass Disabling Event?
In late summer 2021, during the Delta wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation…
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Monkeypox Vaccines Are Too Gnarly for the Masses
In the past three years, the world has weathered two very different global outbreaks, caused by two very different pathogens,…
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A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless
In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two…
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Men’s Health Month Series: What You Should Know About Prostate Cancer
This June, we’re sharing insights from physicians across Dignity Health Medical Groups on topics that are crucial to men’s health.…
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Monkeypox Could Be Nothing—Or It Could Be the Next Syphilis
The first reports of monkeypox cases in Europe began to surface in mid-May. A week later, there were 92 confirmed…
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Little-Kid Vaccines Missed Their Pandemic Moment
When Kishana Taylor enrolled her 3-year-old son, John, in preschool last fall, she figured COVID-19 immunizations for kids under-5 would…
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Don’t Wait to Get Your Kid Vaccinated
Karen Ocwieja delivered her twin sons last June, just weeks before Delta broke across the American Northeast. For months, she…
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The ‘When Will It End?’ Wave
In mid-March, I began to notice a theme within my social circle in New York, where I live: COVID—it finally…
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Women’s Health Month Series: What Women Can Do to Prevent Heart Disease
Our third installment of our Women’s Health Month series features Azadeh Toofaninejad, DO, a cardiologist with Dignity Health Mercy Medical…
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The Death of the Sit-Up
When I think of a sit-up, my mind flashes immediately to the (carpeted, for some reason) floor of my elementary-school…
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