Why Black women are less likely to survive pregnancy, and what’s being done about it
Being Black and pregnant in the U.S. was already a risky combination, and health experts now worry the pandemic is
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Last-resort life support option helped majority of critically ill COVID-19 patients survive
It saved lives in past epidemics of lung-damaging viruses. Now, the life-support option known as ECMO appears to be doing
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These genes help explain how malaria parasites survive treatment with common drug
The essential malaria drug artemisinin acts like a “ticking time bomb” in parasite cells—but in the half a century since
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