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Ask the Expert

Uniting the Black Community to Defeat COVID

Q&A with Kim Rhoads, founder of Umoja Health Partners
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Ask the Expert

How Can We Thwart the Next Pandemic?

Leading scientists share some of the tools and strategies that could help us better confront and contain future outbreaks.
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Mythbuster

Brain Boosters: Can Puzzles and Pills Make Us Sharper?

Games and supplements claim to strengthen cognition. Should you buy them?
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Mythbuster

Probiotics: Health Hack or Hype?

Marketers say microorganisms can fix a lot of what ails us. Do scientists agree?

Combating Coronavirus

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Features

Two Billion Nanobodies. One Global Pandemic. Go.

A UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus.
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Features

We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus

We were wrong.
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Ask the Expert

What Is COVID Doing to Our Hearts?

The disease can affect the heart’s rhythm, impair its ability to pump blood, and much more.
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Features

How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

As the nation’s testing regime floundered, one research team sprang into action.
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Features

An Epidemic of Inequality

Confronting the root of why people of color have been hit hardest by the coronavirus.
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Perspectives

How I Survived COVID-19

Writer F.T. Kola recounts her battle with COVID-19 and its aftermath.

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Summer 2021

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Winter 2021

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  • Alumni Stories
  • Summer 2021

Turns Out, Designing a COVID Vaccine Was Easy

The hard part was everything that came next, says Stephen Hoge, MD ’03, president of Moderna.

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