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Rather than avoiding fresh produce, adopting a few sensible food safety practices can help you significantly reduce your risk of getting sick veggies. During an active outbreak, washing your prewashed greens is a good idea. But better still would be choosing a whole head of lettuce that you wash at home.
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Red Cross now has less than a one-day national supply of type O positive blood — the most commonly transfused blood type.
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Understanding how the immune system responds to the parasite that causes the disease called cyclosporiasis can help explain why the infection is mild in some people but can cause severe or long-lasting illness in others.
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Kari Pahlman, University of Sydney and Diego S. Silva, University of Sydney A previously eliminated disease — measles — is
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A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
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Back in 19th-century England, people rioted against a mandatory smallpox vaccine, claiming that it violated civil rights and was an affront to human bodily integrity. In the United States, organizations dedicated to resisting vaccines have existed since the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League of Brooklyn was established in 1894.
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A recent study found no evidence that electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phones cause cancer in the brain, head or neck.
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An oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
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When you hear the word “fitness”, you probably picture someone who looks physically strong and athletic. But fitness can take many forms.
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Some findings are genuinely exciting. Others are being oversold. Here’s what the science actually says.
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December 2025 floods dramatically reshaped many Washington rivers. Channels shifted, debris moved, and new hazards formed.
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The ruling would apply nationwide, meaning that health providers couldn’t prescribe mifepristone without an in-person visit with the patient, even in states with abortion access.
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A person can recover from measles and continue life as usual without any identifiable symptoms — sometimes for a decade or more — before problems appear.
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Health officials encourage vaccination and staying home when sick to help reduce spread
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Milk can be exposed to bacteria from soil, feed, manure, and infections in cows. Even with careful farming practices, contamination risks remain.
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