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New research found that smoke from the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, carried high concentrations of lead. An environmental…
New research found that smoke from the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, carried high concentrations of lead. An environmental…
Using a technique called admixture mapping, researchers can leverage the diversity of people with mixed ancestry to look…
COVID-19 vaccination produces a more consistent immune response than a past infection. With the delta variant, the difference…
Researchers had suspected that chemical hair relaxers might be behind racial disparities in breast cancer diagnoses. A new…
Left untreated, heat stroke can be fatal, and the elderly are the most at risk.
Though currently approved COVID-19 vaccines effectively provide immunity against the virus, it's unclear how long that…
Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close…
Prevention may be the best way to cope with the worldwide wave of treatment-resistant fungal pathogens.
People sneeze for many reasons and in many ways. One of them is to protect your airways from irritants and infectious disease.
Insight on how a unique protein plays a role in cellular stress responses may provide more clues on how to treat diseases…
You're probably wrong about how much time you spend on your devices, and that has big implications for the link between…
COVID-19 has exacerbated a backlog of domestic and foreign drug manufacturing inspections that the FDA is still too short-staffed…
The high costs of the world's colossally unequal COVID-19 immunization rates.
Support for the Affordable Care Act is at an all-time high.
Immigration has historically offset America's low fertility rate, but the recent dramatic drop in immigration threatens…
Here’s how reflective pavement works and what cities need to think about.
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Vaccines have successfully curtailed viral diseases for decades. But as COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy shows, mistrust and…
After over a year of stress eating and seeing each other only through screens, anxiety over changes in physical appearance…
Around the globe, 823,000 child deaths could be prevented annually with appropriate breastfeeding. Formula makers continue…