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A common flu strain all but vanished last winter. Could COVID have pushed it to extinction?

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Many subtypes of the influenza virus all but vanished. But most notably, one entire lineage—one of only four flu groups ...
Vaccine mandate war: Is it unethical for health workers to forgo COVID shots?

Vaccine mandate war: Is it unethical for health workers to forgo COVID shots?

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On [July 13], seven health organizations—including the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Association for Professionals in Epidemiology and ...
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FDA shuts down sales of homeopathic shots containing toxic lead, mercury, strychnine

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[The FDA cracked down] on four homeopathic companies selling injectable products said to contain highly toxic substances, including lead, mercury, ...
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‘Sloppy’ CDC lab practices blamed for tainted coronavirus tests in early stages of pandemic

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As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test ...
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop under fire again for ‘exploiting health issues in order to make money’

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s contextual commerce company Goop is still making more than a dozen false and misleading health claims about the ...
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Stepping in Goop: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix series promotes ‘junk science, gibberish and unproven health claims’, says microbiologist

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In the third episode of Goop's Netflix series, a female guest remarks that we women are seen as "very dangerous ...
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‘Eye of Sauron’: Man’s strange eyes linked to rare genetic condition

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Doctors in Texas came face to face with a dark, spine-tingling eye that looked rimmed by flames—or, as they calmly ...
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The man who was always drunk, but never drank alcohol: Scientists unwrap the mystery of ‘auto-brewery syndrome’

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After years of inexplicably getting drunk without drinking alcohol, having mood swings and bouts of aggression, landing a DWI charge ...
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Reversal of fortune for ‘failed’ Alzheimer’s drug? Biogen now seeking FDA approval, based on new test data

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An experimental treatment for Alzheimer's disease is headed to the Food and Drug Administration for approval—despite the fact that it ...
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Man with at least 17 children sues fertility clinic for being ‘incredibly irresponsible’ with his sperm

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An Oregon doctor filed a $5.25 million lawsuit [October 2] against a fertility clinic at the Oregon Health & Science ...
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Forget fecal transplants—vaginal fluid swaps could ‘revolutionize’ women’s health

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In the afterglow of successful fecal transplants, researchers are now sniffing around vaginal fluids for the next possible bodily product ...
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2 experimental Ebola treatments show promise in clinical trials, boosting survival rates

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For the first time, preliminary clinical-trial results suggest that two experimental Ebola drugs can lower the death toll of the ...
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Curaleaf’s unproven claims that CBD treats cancer, Alzheimer’s, chronic pain draws FDA warning

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The company Curaleaf claims that it has developed products that can treat a slew of the most formidable conditions found ...
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Viewpoint: Why the New York Times failed with its coverage of overhyped probiotics obesity treatment

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Adding to the steaming pile of unsubstantiated hype over probiotics, the New York Times ran an uncritical article ... suggesting ...
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Tiny electric signals in the brains of comatose patients may help predict who will wake up

Ars Technica | 
Researchers may have found a way to detect inklings of consciousness in comatose and vegetative patients just days after they ...
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Fecal transplant death sparks new FDA screening precautions, pause of clinical trials

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One patient has died and another became seriously ill after fecal transplants inadvertently seeded their innards with a multi-drug resistant ...
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‘Brazen’ biohacker under investigation by California health officials for ‘genetic self-experimentation’

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Prominent genetic "biohacker" Josiah Zayner is under investigation by California state officials for practicing medicine without a license. Zayner has ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Chickenpox parties’ aren’t just unnecessary—they’re incredibly dangerous

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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin made headlines [March 19] after revealing in a radio interview that he had purposefully exposed his ...
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Some of us may have ‘divine healing’ poop for treatment of gut disorders

Ars Technica | 
Scientists often seem to be on a quest for sacred chalices or sterling ammo. But a group of microbiologists has ...
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‘Attack’ on masculinity? Psychology association defends new clinical guidelines for males

Ars Technica | 
The American Psychological Association is on the defensive over its newly released clinical guidance for treating boys and men, which links ...
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Rats and hepatitis E: How animal diseases jump to humans

Ars Technica | 
The first known case of rat hepatitis jumping to a human patient has reopened a long-standing mystery of how the ...
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Hospital ‘superbugs’ getting better at defeating alcohol-based hand sanitizers

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Popular hand sanitizers may be heading the way of antibiotics, according to a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine ...
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Boy almost back to normal 3 years after doctors remove large section of his brain

Ars Technica | 
A boy who had large parts of the right side of his brain removed due to a slow-growing tumor made ...
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Why it’s difficult to declare the end of an Ebola outbreak

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The World Health Organization on [July 24] declared the official end of the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic ...
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Woman’s death blamed on bee-sting acupuncture promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop

Ars Technica | 
A 55-year-old Spanish woman has died following repeated exposures to an acupuncture method that uses live, stinging bees instead of ...
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Ancient poison used for arrows could lead to male birth control pills

Ars Technica | 
According to scientists, a poison arrow in the quiver may let loose a very sticky nether-region massacre. The poison in ...
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Mystery of anesthetics: Despite lack of central nervous system, plants too ‘pass out’ from ‘knock out’ drugs

Ars Technica | 
Just like humans, plants can succumb to the effects of general anesthetic drugs, researchers report in the Annals of Botany. The finding ...
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Gut microbiome could influence response to cancer treatment

Ars Technica | 
When [cancer] drugs work, the immune system tramples tumors into oblivion. But they don’t always work—in fact, cancer drugs can ...
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