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Why Cancer Treatments Stop Working For So Many Patients

Your immune system's cancer-fighting cells carry a hidden off-switch — and scientists just figured out how to flip it back on.Quick TakeA protein called...
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Couple’s ‘Down Syndrome-Abortion’ Announcement Sparks National Backlash

A popular YouTube couple announced they aborted their baby after a Down syndrome diagnosis, and the backlash that followed exposed a moral fault line...
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Spice Trap: When Ginger Turns Dangerous

The same spicy root that calms your stomach can quietly trip you up if you have the wrong health problems.Story SnapshotGinger is safe as...
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Hidden Dangers of Mouthwash Rinsing

That bottle of mouthwash sitting on your bathroom counter may be doing something very different than the fresh-breath promise on its label — and...
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DNA Rewrite Slashes Cholesterol — But Forever

A single injection that rewrites your DNA and permanently silences the gene driving your dangerously high cholesterol sounds like science fiction — except it...
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Late-Night Eating Diabetes Warning

Your blood sugar does not just care what you eat or how much you eat; it cares when you eat, especially after 5 p.m.,...
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Food Allergy Testing – The Most Accurate Test

The real question is not “Can my child get a food allergy test?” but “Will a test actually make my child safer—or just make...
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The Ethical Debate on Gene-Editing Humans

Scientists can now edit the DNA of a human embryo, and a small but growing number of biotech startups think that is close enough...
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Deadly Uproar Over US Ebola Deal

Kenya’s small garrison town of Nanyuki just forced a national reckoning over who bears the risk when global health plans are made in private.Story...
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Salt Shocker Exposes Hidden Diet Divide

One small saltshaker habit is telling a much bigger story: in older Brazilians, men and women do not season the same way, and that...