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Read 2023 issues online

• January | PDF
  Science Made Easy: Viral Transmission, Human Immunity & the Gap Called “Immunity Debt”

Read 2022 issues online

• December | PDF
  What is RSV?
• November | PDF
  Flu vaccine: What’s in the vial?
• October | PDF
  Aluminum and Asthma?
• September | PDF
  Fall and flu vaccines: 3 things to know and 1 common misconception
• August | PDF
  Boosters, variants, new vaccines and the never-ending saga of COVID-19
• July | PDF
  Chickenpox, shingles and … Justin Bieber?
• June | PDF
  3 misconceptions about the hepatitis outbreak in children
• May | PDF
  No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part III
• April | PDF
  No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part II
• March | PDF
  No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part I
• February | PDF
  DYK why HPV doesn’t mean cheating? Take our quiz.
• January | PDF
  “I couldn't ever do what everybody else did” — Living with the long-term effects of polio

Read 2021 issues online

• November | PDF (English | Spanish)
  3 Considerations for COVID-19 vaccination of 5- to 11-year-old children
• February | PDF (English | Spanish)
  Long-term side effects of COVID-19 vaccine? What we know

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