CVS Health confirmed interest in so-called “prescription files” of Rite Aid customers from the … More
Category: 5. Health
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FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts
A decades-old dental health treatment may soon vanish in the United States. Access to fluoride supplements, prescribed to prevent cavities in children without access to fluoridated water, is now under threat from a controversial move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The…
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Two HIV vaccine trials show proof of concept for pathway to broadly neutralizing antibodies
A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional approaches haven’t worked — largely because HIV mutates rapidly and hides key parts of itself from the…
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Particles carrying multiple vaccine doses could reduce the need for follow-up shots
Around the world, 20 percent of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths each year from diseases that are preventable by vaccination. About half of those underimmunized children received at least one vaccine dose but did not complete the vaccination series, while the…
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World’s largest bat organoid platform paves the way for pandemic preparedness
Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world’s most dangerous viruses, including those responsible for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), MERS-CoV, influenza A, and hantavirus outbreaks….
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Key player in childhood food allergies identified: Thetis cells
A decade ago, a clinical trial in the U.K. famously showed that children who were exposed to peanuts in the early months of life had reduced risk of developing a peanut allergy compared with children who avoided peanuts.
Now, researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have a…
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Asians made humanity’s longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas
An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and Asian School of the Environment (ASE) has shown that early Asians made humanity’s longest…
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Dismantling Medicine’s White Wall Of Silence
Medicine’s White Wall is harmful in more ways than one.
In law enforcement, the “Blue Wall of Silence” refers to the unwritten code among officers that discourages reporting a colleague’s misconduct. The message is clear: if you come for one of us, you come for all of us. It’s a…
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Is My Medicine Real—And Safe To Take?
Testing, verification and determining pharmaceutical counterfeiting or fakes of medicines and … More
Imagine this common scenario: You are 50 years old, diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes…
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The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated
That fit people have a reduced risk of premature death from various diseases is a recurring result in many studies. New research from Uppsala University shows that people with high fitness levels in their late teens also have a reduced risk of dying from random accidents. This suggests that the…
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