Prehistoric shark hid its largest teeth
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Which particulate air pollution poses the greatest health risk?
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Blue Ring Nebula: 16-year-old cosmic mystery solved, revealing stellar missing link
Astronomers have solved the 16-year-old mystery surrounding the Blue Ring Nebula – an unusual, large,…
STAT+: House passes a bill to close a loophole in a law that gives drug makers ‘unfair’ monopolies
Seeking to boost competition in the pharmaceutical industry, the House passed a bill that would…
3D bioprinted heart provides new tool for surgeons
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Health Literacy: A Provider Problem, Too
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Diagnosis of a Personal Nature Shouldn’t Cause Shame
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Silent Pandemic: Overuse renders antimicrobials less effective – UN agriculture agency
People, plants and animals around the world are dying from untreatable infections – even with…
Opinion: The shameful abundance of birth- and pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S.
The U.S. spends more on health care than any other wealthy nation. Yet, more people…
Ludwig’s angina: infected teeth must be extracted
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STAT+: How Amazon Pharmacy could ramp up pressure on the prescription drug industry
The launch of Amazon Pharmacy on Tuesday sent shockwaves through the pharmacy pipeline, with industry…
New Questions on an Old Issue: Flame Retardant Fabrics
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Antimicrobial resistant infections keep rising despite fall in GP prescriptions
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Covid-19: Excess deaths vary widely across England and Wales, show data
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Report of UK’s pandemic preparedness leaves questions unanswered, says doctor
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FDA allows first rapid coronavirus test that gives results at home
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New electronic chip delivers smarter, light-powered AI
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Diabetes, hypertension may increase risk of COVID-19 brain complications
Some patients with COVID-19 are at higher risk of neurological complications like bleeding in the…
Latest Ebola outbreak is declared over, with lessons for COVID-19
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is over, the…
Geoscientists discover Ancestral Puebloans survived from ice melt in New Mexico lava tubes
New study explains how Ancestral Puebloans survived devastating droughts by traveling deep into the caves…
A regular dose of nature may improve mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Acute otitis media in children
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine shows 95% effectiveness; FDA vows to disclose scientific data for EUAs
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Aggressive COVID testing and surveillance minimized infections
An aggressive COVID-19 surveillance and testing effort at Duke University was highly effective in minimizing…
Kids mount a COVID-19 immune response without detection of the SARSCoV-2 virus, case study finds
Children in an Australian family developed a COVID-19 immune response after chronic exposure to the…
Use UK aid to train doctors in developing countries, says MP
The UK should train more doctors and nurses rather than recruiting staff from developing countries,…
Pfizer and BioNTech to submit Covid-19 vaccine data to FDA as full results show 95% efficacy
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Wednesday that the efficacy portion of their Covid-19 vaccine trial has…
Covid-19: UK government faces legal action after awarding {pound}250m in PPE contracts to ȷewellery company
The UK government is facing another legal challenge after it awarded £250m (€279.5m; $332.3m) worth…
The BMJ’s political stance—where is the balance?
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STAT+: Biden team ramps up outreach to public health groups
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Opinion: Interoperability: an untapped tool in America’s fight against Covid-19
As the coronavirus pandemic collides with flu season, barriers to accessing medical information could undermine…
Health systems are using AI to predict severe Covid-19 cases. But limited data could produce unreliable results
As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are…
NHS reorganisation after the pandemic
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David Oliver: The roads not taken in our covid response
Stephen Sondheim’s song “The Road You Didn’t Take” includes the line, “You take one road,…
Testing times for the government’s favoured antibody kit
In this article by Armstrong (BMJ 2020;371:m440, doi:10.1136/bmj.m4440, published 16 November 2020), there was an…
Covid-19: Innova lateral flow test is not fit for “test and release” strategy, say experts
The government has claimed that rapid lateral flow covid-19 tests, which are being used in…
How will Brexit affect the healthcare workforce?
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Helen Salisbury: Managing vaccine expectations
A drug company’s press release about the success of its covid-19 vaccine has led to…
A New Wave of Prenatal and Postnatal Vitamins Aims To Revamp Pregnancy Nutrition – Well+Good
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Prenatal care remains key amid COVID, B.C. expert says, as U.S. studies show heightened risk – Agassiz-Harrison Observer
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Global Prenatal Vitamin Supplements Market 2020-2024: Market Analysis, Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities, and Threats – Technavio – WV News
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Feeling lonely at prenatal visits during COVID? You are not alone. – Charleston Post Courier
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Prenatal CRISPR therapy blocks Angelman syndrome traits in mice – Spectrum
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Health report: Prenatal vitamin use up, substance use down among Native mothers – Navajo-Hopi Observer
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