Anthrax, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is often treatable in its early stages. But once the disease has progressed beyond the “point of no return” after just a few days, patients are almost certainly doomed.
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Category: 5. Health
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Trump Administration’s Attack On MRNA Vaccines Threatens American Biotech Dominance
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a top spreader of vaccine misinformation during the pandemic. Now he leads America’s health efforts.
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Less than a year after COVID-19 upended life as we know it and killed the first of…
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Chronic kidney disease often goes undiagnosed, but early detection can prevent severe outcomes
For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people who have it are formally diagnosed.
The consequences of advanced chronic kidney disease are severe. When these
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Cuts to science research funding cut American lives short − federal support is essential for medical breakthroughs
Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health: from over-the-counter and prescription medications that treat high cholesterol and pain to protection from infectious diseases such…
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Dark Chocolate And Placebos Are Also Good For Your Health
Chocolate bar in silver foil in woman’s palms.
Two months ago, I wrote about recent research indicating that drinking coffee could be good for one’s health—resulting in a statistically significant decrease in mortality. (Caveat: The…
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A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry
University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals spread through geographic regions.
One of the…
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Nutrition Funding Cuts Could Claim 369K Young Lives This Year
Up to 2.3 million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM)— the most lethal form of … More
A harrowing…
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Long COVID patients feel pressure to prove their illness is real, study finds
People living with Long Covid often feel dismissed, disbelieved and unsupported by their healthcare providers, according to a new study from the University of Surrey.
The study, which was published in the Journal of Health Psychology, looked at…
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Cartilage and bone development: Three paths to skeleton formation
In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental origin, but also…
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New Sheriff in Town: Immune Cells Found to Regulate Immune Response and Avoid Autoimmunity
Our immune systems develop to recognize what is foreign within our bodies. As immune cells are generated in the bone marrow and mature in other locations, they undergo processes that instruct which cells and…
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