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This Nigerian city has a high birth rate of twins — and no one is sure why

Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins.
- The Associated Press
The FDA has officially declared a shortage of Adderall

The FDA has confirmed the nation is experiencing a shortage of Adderall after many pharmacies around the country have been unable to fill prescriptions and keep up with demand.
- Ayana Archie
Tips for finding an omicron booster shot in Western Washington

Finding access to a Covid booster shot that is updated for omicron can be difficult around Western Washington. As KUOW's Eilis O'Neill reports, the state currently does not have enough omicron boosters for the demand, and some people are not finding options locally.
- Dyer Oxley
This MacArthur 'genius' grantee says she isn't a drug price rebel but she kind of is

Health justice lawyer Priti Krishtel doesn't believe your ability to heal should depend on your ability to pay. Her mission is to reform the patent system that drug companies use to block competition.
- Max Barnhart
Colonoscopies save lives. Doctors push back against European study that casts doubt

Colon cancer specialists worry that results of a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine could be misconstrued, and keep patients from getting lifesaving cancer screening.
- Allison Aubrey
How to make Covid boosters cool again

An updated Covid-19 booster shot came out last month, but as of last week, only 1 in 10 people have gotten one. Maybe we’re all a little booster fatigued. Dr. Shireesha Dhanireddy is the director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Harborview, and the Clinical Lead at UW Medicine’s COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics program. She’s here to tell us why people have been slow to get their next booster, and what might happen if more people don’t get theirs soon.
- Vaughan Jones
Eyeballs and AI power the research into how falsehoods travel online

Getting a sense of falsehoods online might sound straightforward, but it isn't. Researchers use state-of-the-art algorithms but it also comes down to lots of scrolling and reading.
- Huo Jingnan
What the White House sees coming for COVID this winter

The U.S. should prepare for a spike in COVID cases this winter as more people gather indoors and infections already begin to rise in Europe, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha says.
- Patrick Jarenwattananon
It's so hard to find Covid boosters in WA, experts worry people will give up

As the season for respiratory illnesses approaches, public health officials in Washington state are encouraging people to get updated Covid booster shots as soon as possible. But many locations are booked weeks out and residents say they’re struggling to find appointments.
- Eilís O'Neill
How this Brazilian doc got nearly every person in her city to take a COVID vaccine

Dr. Gabriela Kucharski's city of Toledo had virtually no vaccines. And it's a bastion of support for Brazil's vaccine skeptic president. Here's why that didn't matter.
- Nurith Aizenman

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