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Iran Denies Cover-Up After Lawmaker Contradicts Official Coronavirus Figures, Says 50 Dead
A member of Iran’s parliament announced on Monday that 50 people had died from the new coronavirus in the city of Qom and accused Iran’s Health Ministry of covering up the true extent of the outbreak in the country. The Health Ministry claims just 12 people have died in Iran from COVID-19, with 66 people…
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Can You Get Sick From Air Conditioning?
At the peak of summer, when just walking to and from the corner store necessitates a shower and a change of clothes, air-conditioning can seem almost too good to be true. It is one of the few staples of modernity without severe and readily apparent downsides: All it does, or all it seems to do,…
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One Third Of All Antibiotics Prescribed To Americans Are Unnecessary
For the past several years, doctors have been sounding the alarm about the overuse of antibiotics. For all the concern, however, no one quite knew how much of the antibiotics prescribed in the United States were unnecessary — until now. And the problem goes even deeper than suspected.
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Can You Actually Get Sick From Being Cold?
We’ve all been nagged about staying warm by a concerned elder: “You don’t want to catch cold!” But that’s absurd; everyone these days knows colds are only caused by viruses, right? Well, it’s complicated.