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A Chinese MRNA COVID Vaccine Is Approved For The First Time – In Indonesia
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Spirituality, Wellness, and Conspiracy Beliefs – Psychology Today
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Not Just Pests: Bed Bugs Produce This Chemical In Large Amounts, Study Finds
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Young women and anal sex: should we consider rectal PAP smear testing?
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Government must proceed with landmark anti-obesity regulations in England
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Recognising lived experience is essential to empowering disabled patients
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Vaping is “unlikely to be risk free,” finds evidence review
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A Chinese MRNA COVID Vaccine Is Approved For The First Time – In Indonesia
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Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
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Opinion: How the Inflation Reduction Act can help decarbonize the health care industry
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Fungi find their way into cancer tumors, but what they’re doing there is a mystery
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Opinion: Maternal-fetal surgery is not an alternative to abortion care
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UK childhood vaccination rates fell last year in almost all programmes, figures show
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The Unscientific King: Charles III’s History Promoting Homeopathy – The Scientist
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Non-Pharmacological Therapies may Provide Alternative Treatment Options in Fibromyalgia – Rheumatology Network
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Potential first traces of the universe’s earliest stars
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Machine learning helps scientists peer (a second) into the future
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Seeing antibiotics in action inside a pathogenic bacterium
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Active matter, curved spaces: Mini robots learn to ‘swim’ on stretchy surfaces
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Lunar glass shows Moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth
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Robotic drug capsule can deliver drugs to gut
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Stress has an odor and dogs can smell it
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System to create bioplastics
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FDA approves ALS drug from Amylyx, giving patients a much-needed treatment option
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Fluidic circuits add analog options for controlling soft robots
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Detailing a disastrous autumn day in ancient Italy
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FDA moves on AI tools, bionic pancreas research, & equity in digital therapeutics
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Juul exec slams FDA over its approach to regulating vaping
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Listen: A surprise success in Alzheimer’s and how FDA history seeded modern controversy
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Human rights: ‘Disturbing trends’ in reprisals against those cooperating with the UN continues
People in 42 different countries across the world faced reprisals and intimidation on the basis…
New evidence for liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars
An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid…
Ozone pollution threatens plant health and makes it harder for pollinators to find flowers
Over the past decades, rising levels of ozone pollution have been interrupting pollination, impacting the…
3D printing can now manufacture customized sensors for robots, pacemakers, and more
A newly-developed 3D printing technique could be used to cost-effectively produce customized electronic ‘machines’ the…
Physicists take self-assembly to new level by mimicking biology
A team of physicists has created a new way to self-assemble particles — an advance…
Dead fish breathes new life into the evolutionary origin of fins and limbs
A trove of fossils in China, unearthed in rock dating back some 436 million years,…
Water fleas as ‘canaries in a coal mine’ offer key to managing chemical pollution
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Breaks in ‘junk’ DNA give scientists new insight into neurological disorders
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STAT+: Health app companies wrestle with how to design studies to prove treatments work
For companies that have spent years developing interactive technologies to help treat disease, the tricky…
STAT+: With rivals on its heels, Illumina launches a new line of high-end DNA sequencers
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Lessons in resilience: what covid-19 taught us about preparing for the crises to come
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Medicare plans sizable infrastructure for negotiating drug prices; Alzheimer’s data also boost Roche and Lilly
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