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SA Health & Medicine Vol 3 Issue 6

Health & Medicine

December 2021

Volume 3, Issue 6

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Features

Why Kids Beat Back COVID Better Than Adults
Medicine

Why Kids Beat Back COVID Better Than Adults

Innate immunity might be the key to why children have fared better with the virus. But the Delta variant poses fresh unknowns

By Nature magazine and Smriti Mallapaty
COVID Vaccines Show No Signs of Harming Fertility or Sexual Function
Vaccines

COVID Vaccines Show No Signs of Harming Fertility or Sexual Function

The novel coronavirus, in contrast, can disrupt both things in unvaccinated men and women

By Gary Stix and Emily Willingham

Departments

From the Editor
Essential Links in the Immunity Web
News
Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks--and Where to Get Them
Is This Food Really Healthy? New Packaging Labels Would Tell You
Do Monoclonal Antibodies Help COVID Patients?
Rogue Antibodies Involved In Nearly One Fifth of COVID Deaths
Opinion
The Absurd Pregnancy Math behind the Texas 'Six-Week' Abortion Ban
The FDA Shouldn't Support a Ban on Kratom
How Music Can Literally Heal the Heart
Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020 Were Horrifying
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