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Anxiety about flying is common during the best of times: Research suggests up to 40% of people worldwide have some degree of aerophobia. Add a string of recent plane crashes and other horrifying incidents to the mix, and feeling jittery about boarding a plane seems perfectly reasonable. “I’m hearing about it a lot from patients, … Read more

An older woman in southeast Wyoming is hospitalized with bird flu, state health department officials said Friday. It’s the state’s first human case of Type A H5N1 influenza, which is spreading through animals and some people. Nearly 70 people in the U.S. have been reported infected with bird flu in the last year, according to data from the U.S. … Read more

Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the intimate details of someone’s body and illness are meant to be as carefully guarded, as quietly delivered, as a sacramental confession. But days into my first year as a doctor, I delivered my first diagnosis of cancer in front of two armed correctional officers, to a … Read more

The government is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households and is considering destroying 160 million tests. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun, Carolyn Y. Johnson

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to responding to infectious-disease outbreaks. View original article Contributor: Rachel Roubein, Lena H. Sun, Carolyn Y. Johnson

Krystena Murray says the error left her “emotionally broken” after she raised a boy for months before giving him up to his biological parents. View original article Contributor: Jonathan Edwards