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Red Meat Shock: Hidden Diabetes Link

A sugar molecule hiding in your steak may be quietly raising your risk of type 2 diabetes by 63 percent.Quick TakeResearchers tracked nearly 90,000...
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Inside Bones: How Broken Bones Heal

A broken bone does not just "heal" overnight—it goes through four distinct repair stages, and the final one can take up to nine years...
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Scientists Found Something Interesting In Ovaries Long After Menopause

Scientists found that ovaries keep changing for decades after menopause, and the pattern is not random. Story Snapshot Aging Cell study analyzed healthy ovaries from...
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Outbreak Hunters: Understanding the work of epidemiologists

Epidemiologists chase the “who, what, where, and why” of sickness so the rest of us can keep living our lives.Story Snapshot“Disease detectives” study how...
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Mouth Bacteria, Mind Slide?

Your dentist may be holding a sneak preview of your brain’s future—on your tongue.At a GlanceOlder adults with certain mouth bacteria performed worse on...
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Cardiovascular Risks of Using Adderall Recreationally

One pill, no history of ADHD, no second dose needed — and a healthy young adult's blood pressure jumped 10 points within hours, according...
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Breakfast Trick Slashes Bad Cholesterol

A bowl of oats sends a chain of tiny gel-forming fibers through your gut that pull bad cholesterol out of circulation — and that...
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Common Pill Upsets Cancer Playbook

A vitamin sold at any pharmacy is showing early signs it can help fight one of the deadliest brain cancers known to medicine.Quick TakeUniversity...
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New Tick Virus Creeps Into 21 States

A tick bite in China has led scientists to a virus doctors never knew existed, one already found in a tick species now living...
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Smoking-Level Risk: The Epidemic Nobody Sees

Half of American adults now say they feel alone on a regular basis, and the nation's top doctor calls it a health threat as...

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