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Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study finds
[ad_1] While scientists are still working to understand the effects an extended trip to space can have on the human body, research in recent…
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What If There’s a Secret Benefit to Getting Asian Glow?
[ad_1] At every party, no matter the occasion, my drink of choice is soda water with lime. I have never, not once, been drunk—or…
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Doctors Suddenly Got Way Better at Treating Eczema
[ad_1] Up until a few years ago, Heather Sullivan’s 14-year-old son, Sawyer, had struggled with eczema his entire life. When he was just a…
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Ticks’ Secret Weapon
[ad_1] In the three-plus decades I’ve been alive, I have never been bitten by a tick. Actually, that may be a lie, and I…
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A Gaping Hole in Cancer-Therapy Trials
[ad_1] This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. In October 2021, 84-year-old Jim Yeldell was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer. The first…
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The COVID Question That Will Take Decades to Answer
[ad_1] To be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year that follows—means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is ubiquitous.…
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Someday, You Might Be Able to Eat Your Way Out of a Cold
[ad_1] When it comes to treating disease with food, the quackery stretches back far. Through the centuries, raw garlic has been touted as a…
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Is COVID Immunity Hung Up on Old Variants?
[ad_1] In the two-plus years that COVID vaccines have been available in America, the basic recipe has changed just once. The virus, meanwhile, has…
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Will Nasal COVID Vaccines Save Us?
[ad_1] Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a niche subset of experimental vaccines has offered the world a tantalizing promise: a sustained…
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I Was Allergic to Cats. Until Suddenly, I Wasn’t.
[ad_1] Of all the nicknames I have for my cat Calvin—Fluffernutter, Chonk-a-Donk, Fuzzy Lumpkin, Jerky McJerkface—Bumpus Maximus may be the most apt. Every night,…
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When’s the Perfect Time to Get a Flu Shot?
[ad_1] For about 60 years, health authorities in the United States have been championing a routine for at least some sector of the public:…
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Should Your Flu and COVID Shots Go in Different Arms?
[ad_1] At a press briefing earlier this month, Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID czar, laid out some pretty lofty expectations for America’s immunity…