Colorectal cancer rates are falling among older adults, largely because of increased screening. But researchers are seeing a troubling shift in younger people, with more cases now appearing in adults under 50, including some in their thirties. A new nationwide study from Switzerland found that…
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Tropical Diseases Are Gaining A Foothold In The Continental US
Female Aedes aegypti mosquito, a carrier of the Dengue fever, feeding on the human skin, 2005. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / James Gathany. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
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For the past century, most mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and…
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Hantavirus Is Scary But Chronic Health Risks Are More Dangerous
Hantavirus may capture headlines, but chronic conditions continue to account for the vast majority of preventable illness and death.
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One of the greatest challenges in public health is not identifying danger. It is helping people understand relative risk. Human beings are notoriously poor at…
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Personalized Vaccine Improves Treatment for Brain Cancer
Brain cancer or glioblastoma is an aggressive tumor that affects just four out of every 100,000 people in America. Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis believe they have developed a personalized vaccine against this tumor…
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Inform Adoptive Cell Therapy
A limitation to cancer treatment, specifically acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the ability to effectively target tumors cells without harming healthy tissue or blood cells. This is a side effect of most therapies since cells all share similar markers and…
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Scientists say a daily multivitamin may help slow aging
A large clinical trial suggests that taking a daily multivitamin could help slow biological aging in older adults, especially in people whose bodies were aging faster than expected at the start of the study.
Researchers from Mass General Brigham analyzed data from older adults who participated…
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CVS Sale Of Omnicare Long-Term Care Pharmacy Continues Portfolio Revamp
In this photo is CVS Health Corp. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, July 28, 2025. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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A bankruptcy court has approved the sale of CVS Health’s underperforming Omnicare long-term…
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Unclear How FDA Commissioner Makary’s Departure Will Impact Policy
Dr. Marty Makary, Food and Drug Administration commissioner, announced his resignation on May 12, 2026. During his 13-month tenure at the agency, he pursued a wide variety of initiatives. Going forward, their status is unclear. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Why Banning Food Dyes Won’t Fix What’s Wrong With The American Diet
The Illusion of Clean: Why Removing Food Dyes Won’t Fix America’s Diet
Americans will fight about almost anything — but not this: they don’t want chemicals coloring their kids’ food. And they’re right.
But removing food dyes won’t fix what’s broken in the American diet.
This is the…
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Who are the Japanese? Huge DNA discovery rewrites history
For decades, scientists believed the Japanese population largely descended from two ancient groups: the Jomon hunter-gatherers who lived in the archipelago for thousands of years, and later migrants from East Asia who brought rice farming and new technologies to Japan.
But a major genetic…
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