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In October 2020, Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, sent an email that maligned a colleague. A few days before, Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy ...
Americans and Brits really are a pond apart, and not just physically. The two nations differ when it comes to how they use the English language, how they deploy humor (or humour) and wit, and of co...
WASHINGTON -- America's butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds.The firs...
In Washington’s debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground.
Many Republican lawmakers and conservative policy officials who want...
Panelists at a covid conference last fall were asked to voice their regrets — policies they had supported during the pandemic but had come to see as misguided. Covid contact tracing, one said. Clos...
A recent CDC MMWR report shows three new asymptomatic human cases of bird flu, suggesting the virus may be slowly spreading. Johanna Moya/Getty Images
A growing bird flu outbreak has many ...
When the Cold War abated, military budgets shrunk. Strapped for funds, the U.S. Marines licensed seminal first-person-shooter (FPS) Doom from id Software and built their own version for soldiers to...
ALTADENA, Calif. — As flames engulfed a nearby canyon, dozens of residents in a sober-living home fled to an unoccupied building about 30 miles south. The evacuees, many of whom were previously hom...
The lobby at this St. John’s Community Health clinic in South Los Angeles bustles with patients. But community health worker Ana Ruth Varela is worried that it’s about to get a lot quieter. Many pa...
Chronological age refers to a person’s age based on when they were born. The term biological aging describes the age of their cells, which can differ depending on genetic and environmental factors....
In diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, specific proteins misfold and clump together, forming toxic aggregates that damage brain cells. The process of proteins spontaneously clumping is calle...
Less than one in five patients are tested for cardiovascular risk factors following pregnancy-related hypertension or diabetes, according to a new study published in the "Go Red for Women" issue of...
Measles is continuing to spread across the United States as an outbreak in Texas rapidly grows and cases are confirmed in nearby states, according to health officials.In western Texas, a measles ou...
Pixel-Shot/ShutterstockAustralians are waiting an average of 12 years to seek treatment for mental health and substance use disorders, our new research shows.
While many of us are proactive in...
Brain inflammation, while a crucial part of the body's immune response, takes on a detrimental role in Alzheimer's disease. Unlike the acute, short-lived inflammation that combats infection, the in...
Aging is a privilege, but it also brings risks -- including an increased likelihood of developing age-related diseases including cancer. Researchers have now created a landmark atlas of how healthy...
A research collaboration has found that besides regulating the fusion of mitochondria, Mitofusin 2 also ensures protein quality control. This discovery could open up new routes to treating Charcot-...
The NIDUS-Family package of care uses goal setting to help people with dementia live well at home for longer. New research from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with UCL shows that,...
Fallon Health aims to better serve older adults in MetroWest with this new office MetroWest Daily News
McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back feel worse — so she could get the pills that made her back feel better.
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