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One Person Dies in Brookshire Farms E. Coli Outbreak in California After Three Children Land in Intensive Care

One Person Dies in Brookshire Farms E. Coli Outbreak in California After Three Children Land in Intensive Care

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — One person has died in connection with an E. coli outbreak linked to a popular pumpkin patch on California's Central...

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Flu Season Arrives Early as Louisiana Leads Nation in Flu Activity and H1N1 Cases Climb Across the West Coast

Flu Season Arrives Early as Louisiana Leads Nation in Flu Activity and H1N1 Cases Climb Across the West Coast

Flu season is arriving earlier than usual across much of the U.S., with Louisiana reporting the highest flu activity in the nation. Doctors say a...

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Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Tops 1,500 Cases as Infections Among Pregnant Women Hit Highest Level in Decades

Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Tops 1,500 Cases as Infections Among Pregnant Women Hit Highest Level in Decades

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's measles outbreak, the largest in the country, has passed 1,500 cases. Health officials are increasingly...

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US Poised to Lose Measles-Elimination Status After 26 Years as Health Experts Meet and Cases Top 5,000

US Poised to Lose Measles-Elimination Status After 26 Years as Health Experts Meet and Cases Top 5,000

International health experts began meeting this week to decide whether the United States has lost its measles-elimination status. If they rule that it...

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Lilly's Retatrutide Eases Knee Osteoarthritis Pain and Improves Function in Two Phase 3 Trials, NEJM Reports

Lilly's Retatrutide Eases Knee Osteoarthritis Pain and Improves Function in Two Phase 3 Trials, NEJM Reports

Eli Lilly's experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide significantly reduced knee pain and improved physical function in people with obesity and...

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AI-Powered Eye Scans May Spot Diabetes And Heart Disease Early As UK Backs Sunderland Hub With £12.2 Million

SUNDERLAND, England — Routine eye tests could soon help detect diabetes and heart disease before symptoms appear, under a new British research...

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NASA Seeks New Astronauts To Live And Work On The Moon, Opening Applications For First Lunar Base Class

NASA Seeks New Astronauts To Live And Work On The Moon, Opening Applications For First Lunar Base Class

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has opened applications for its next class of astronauts, the first group recruited specifically to help build and staff...

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Flu Cases Surge 77% in New York as Hospitalizations Double and Officials Urge Shots Before Thanksgiving

Flu Cases Surge 77% in New York as Hospitalizations Double and Officials Urge Shots Before Thanksgiving

ALBANY, N.Y. — Flu season has arrived early in New York, with cases and hospitalizations climbing sharply in recent weeks, state health officials...

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Infant Dies in Wisconsin Measles Outbreak, State's First Measles Death Since 1990 as Cases Hit 35-Year High

Infant Dies in Wisconsin Measles Outbreak, State's First Measles Death Since 1990 as Cases Hit 35-Year High

MADISON, Wis. — An infant has died of measles in southwestern Wisconsin, state health officials said, the state's first measles death in more...

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US Measles Cases Surpass 5,000 for First Time Since 1991 as Deaths Mount and Elimination Status at Risk

US Measles Cases Surpass 5,000 for First Time Since 1991 as Deaths Mount and Elimination Status at Risk

ATLANTA — The United States has recorded more than 5,000 measles cases this year, the highest total in 35 years, as outbreaks spread across most of...

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More Parents Refusing Newborn Vitamin K Shots as Study Finds Refusals Doubled and Infant Bleeding Risk Rising

More Parents Refusing Newborn Vitamin K Shots as Study Finds Refusals Doubled and Infant Bleeding Risk Rising

PHILADELPHIA — More American parents are declining a routine vitamin K shot for their newborns, and cases of dangerous bleeding in infants are...

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Pennsylvania Confirms Sixth Measles Death as Nation's Largest Outbreak in Decades Reaches 1,467 Cases

Pennsylvania Confirms Sixth Measles Death as Nation's Largest Outbreak in Decades Reaches 1,467 Cases

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania health officials confirmed a sixth measles-associated death on Wednesday as the state's outbreak, the largest in...

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Child Dies of Measles in Rural Northern New York, the State's First Death From the Disease in 30 Years

Child Dies of Measles in Rural Northern New York, the State's First Death From the Disease in 30 Years

LOWVILLE, N.Y. — A child in rural northern New York has died after contracting measles, state officials announced Monday. It is the state's...

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Energy Drinks Linked to Cardiac Arrest and Heart Attacks in Young Adults, New FDA Data Analysis Finds

Energy Drinks Linked to Cardiac Arrest and Heart Attacks in Young Adults, New FDA Data Analysis Finds

CHICAGO — Energy drinks and stimulant supplements showed up far more often than other products in federal reports of cardiac arrest, heart attacks...

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Jeff Bezos Space Ride Prices Resurface At $200,000-Plus, But Blue Origin's Tourist Rocket Remains Grounded

Jeff Bezos Space Ride Prices Resurface At $200,000-Plus, But Blue Origin's Tourist Rocket Remains Grounded

A report that Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin planned to charge $200,000 or more for rides to space has been circulating again online. But anyone hoping...

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Type 2 Diabetes Breakthrough: Diet and Exercise Put 54% of Young Adults Into Remission in Just Six Months

More than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes who followed an intensive, medically supervised program of low-calorie eating and structured...

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FDA Classifies Miyoko's Plant-Based Butter Recall as Class II Over Yeast, Mold and E. Coli in 10 States

The Food and Drug Administration has classified a recall of Miyoko's Creamery European Style Salted Plant Milk Butter as Class II after the...

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Major Groups Release First Life Stage Framework for Women's Heart Health From Puberty Through Menopause

Four leading medical organizations on Monday published a coordinated framework that ties the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in...

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AI Spots Hidden Signs of Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Diagnosis, Nearly Twice as Sensitive as Radiologists

LONDON, — An artificial intelligence system can detect subtle signs of pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans more than a year before patients are...

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Mounjaro Beats Wegovy in Head-to-Head Weight-Loss Trial as Blockbuster Drug Reshapes Obesity in the US and UK

Eli Lilly's tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, produced substantially more weight loss than Novo Nordisk's Wegovy in the first...

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Fish Oil Supplements Fail to Protect Memory or Slow Brain Shrinkage in Older Adults, Two-Year USC Study Finds

Fish oil supplements taken by millions of people in hopes of protecting their memory did not improve thinking skills or slow brain shrinkage in older...

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Doctors Urge Flu Shots as Unusually Early Season Hits West Coast and New H1N1 Mutation Raises Fears for Young

Doctors are urging Americans 6 months and older to get vaccinated against the flu after an unusually early rise in cases on the West Coast, driven by...

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(VIDEO) SpaceX Launches 32 Payloads On Bandwagon-5 Mission, Creating Rare 'Space Jellyfish' Over Florida

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 32 payloads into orbit early Tuesday, lighting up the morning sky over Central...

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(VIDEO) Japan Launches MMX Mission to Return First Samples From Mars Moon Phobos

TANEGASHIMA, Japan — Japan launched its Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft on an H3 rocket early Tuesday, beginning a five-year mission to land on...

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World's Timekeepers Vote To Scrap Leap Seconds, Replace Them With A Leap Hour That May Not Come For Centuries

VERSAILLES, France — The world's official timekeepers voted Thursday to abolish the leap second, the occasional one-second adjustment that has...

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Frequent or Unintended Daytime Naps May Signal Higher Dementia Risk in Older Adults, Johns Hopkins Study Finds

BALTIMORE — Older adults who nap frequently, fall asleep during the day without meaning to or take short naps may face a higher risk of developing...

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(VIDEO) Mini Hearts and Brains Head to Space Station in First-Ever Test That Could Unlock Secrets of Aging

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Miniature human organs are on their way to the International Space Station for the first time, in an experiment researchers...

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Women With Autoimmune Conditions More Often Told Symptoms Are Psychological, Study Finds

LONDON — Women with autoimmune diseases are substantially more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychological or psychosomatic and face...

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Oregon Mother of Six Sues for $68.5 Million After Hysterectomy Infection Led to Amputations and Paralysis

PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon mother of six has filed a $68.5 million medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that doctors failed to detect and treat a...

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Late-night eating linked to up to 30% higher liver disease risk in study of 200,000 people

PORTLAND, Ore. — That bowl of chips in front of the television at midnight may be doing more harm than expanding your waistline. A large new study...

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Splashes Down Off California After Nearly 8 Months in Space, Ending Historic Mission

LOS ANGELES — Four astronauts from the United States, France and Russia returned to Earth on Thursday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the...

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New Iron Deficiency Guidelines Double Ferritin Cutoff, Meaning Many Told They Were 'Normal' May Not Be

WASHINGTON — Many Americans who were told their iron levels were normal may in fact be iron deficient under new diagnostic standards from the...

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A Seven-Year Study Finds More Weekly Activity, Not Harder Workouts, Tied To Slower Parkinson's Decline

People with Parkinson's disease who reported more hours of physical activity each week had slower declines in movement and in thinking over as...

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Gatorade Recall: PepsiCo Pulls 122,000 Cases in 37 States Over Undeclared Artificial Yellow Dyes, FDA Says

NEW YORK — PepsiCo has recalled more than 122,000 cases of Gatorade sold in 37 states because the sports drinks contain artificial yellow dyes that...

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Scientists Train Immune System To Control HIV Without Daily Drugs, Raising Cure Hopes As US Funding Cuts Loom

SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists are making progress toward a goal that has eluded HIV researchers for more than four decades. In small trials, they have...

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New Supercomputer Runs Suggest The Early Milky Way Was Thousands Of Smaller Galaxies, Some Of Them Starless

CHICAGO — The neighborhood that became the Milky Way may have started as thousands of smaller galaxies, some bursting with stars and some shining...

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Who Owns the Moon? Billionaires and Superpowers Race for Lunar Riches Despite Treaty Banning Ownership

WASHINGTON — Nearly six decades after world powers agreed that no nation could claim the moon, a new race to settle its surface is testing whether...

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Lancet Study Finds One in Eight Cancers Worldwide Is Tied to Infection and Most of Those Cases Are Preventable

About one in eight new cancer cases worldwide is linked to an infection, and most of that burden could be reduced with vaccines and treatment already...

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Most Americans Reject Vaccine-Autism Link, New Poll Finds, As Confusion Persists Over RFK Jr.'s Measles Stance

PHILADELPHIA — Most Americans do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism, according to a new national survey, though the share rejecting the...

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Can AI Help Reverse Aging? New Drugs And Lab Breakthroughs Fuel Hope, But Scientists Urge Caution On Hype

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful tools in the search for treatments that slow or even reverse aging, with recent...

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Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Tops 900 Cases as Hospitalizations Climb in Worst Resurgence in Decades

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's measles outbreak continued to grow on Monday, with the state reporting 68 new infections since last Wednesday,...

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Top 10 Countries That Drink the Most Alcohol: Romania, Georgia and Latvia Lead Latest WHO-Based Ranking

Romania drinks more alcohol per person than any other country, followed by Georgia and Latvia, according to the most recent internationally comparable...

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1 In 3 Insured Americans Carry Medical Debt, Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds, As Routine Care Bills Pile Up

WASHINGTON — One in three working-age Americans with private health insurance say they are paying off medical debt, according to a survey released...

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(VIDEO) SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Aims for First Orbit, Carrying 26 Starlink V3 Satellites in 10-Hour Test

STARBASE, Texas — SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship megarocket on Monday in an attempt to reach orbit for the first time, a 10-hour test...

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US Study Finds Ages 50 to 64 Drinking More Heavily While Younger Adults Cut Back on Alcohol

NEW YORK — Overall drinking among U.S. adults edged down after 2022, but people ages 50 to 64 kept drinking more — and more of them drank heavily...

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Rare Gene Variant Raises Never-Smokers' Lung Cancer Odds 62-Fold, Study Finds in Science

BOSTON — A rare inherited change in the EGFR gene was tied to a sharp rise in lung cancer risk, including among people who have never smoked,...

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San Diego West Nile Virus Cases Hit 10-Year High As County Deploys Mosquito Spraying Trucks, Officials Warn

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County health officials are urging residents to take precautions against mosquito bites after West Nile virus cases surged to...

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Nap or Quick Workout? New Study Finds Both Equally Boost Memory After Sleep Deprivation, Doctor Explains

Going without sleep makes it significantly harder to concentrate and learn new information, but a new study suggests a short bout of exercise may...

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DEA Warns of New Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine, Said to Be 10 Times More Potent Than Fentanyl, Officials Say

DENVER — Federal and state health officials are warning the public about a new and dangerous synthetic opioid called cychlorphine, following a...

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Doctors Urge Early Flu Vaccination as 2026-2027 Season Approaches, Warning of Deadly Pneumonia Complications

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Doctors are urging patients to get vaccinated against influenza before flu activity begins climbing this fall, warning that...

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