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Society & Culture

You’re more likely to die in a car crash than you are from a shark attack. So why are we more afraid of sharks?

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by Erin Kayata
A person inserts a needle of a vaccine into a child's arm.
Health

Childhood vaccination rates are dropping. Here’s why this matters

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by Erin Kayata
Silhouette of staff member looking at an image of a prostate on a monitor.
Health

Prostate cancer is the second-leading cancer among men. Here’s what to know about it

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by Erin Kayata
great white shark under water
Society & Culture

Shark Week, the ‘Jaws effect’ and how more great whites in the water are changing human behavior

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
Shivam Patel, 13, receives his first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from nurse Diawna Jenkins as his father, Rajesh Patel, observes from the background at the Cook County Public Health Department on May 13, 2021, in Des Plaines, Ill. AP Photo by Shafkat Anowar
Health

Should kids get a COVID-19 vaccination? Ask them.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki
Health

With new May 1 vaccine push, communication key to pushing past resistance

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki
According to new research by Northeastern assistant professor Susan Mello, teenage exposure to secondhand aerosols was even more prevalent in 2018 than their e-cigarette use during the same time. Photo via iStock
Health

The Trump administration ban on flavored e-cigarettes wouldn’t just affect teens who vape; it would help their peers inhaling secondhand aerosol as well

by Molly Callahan