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Why Holiday 'Rest' Doesn't Actually Restore Us, And What Works Better

The way you relax may be backfiring.

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A letter from STAT’s Rick Berke on a tumultuous year in health and science

A letter to readers from STAT Executive Editor Rick Berke on a tumultuous year in health and science.

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Disabled people in England ‘betrayed’ by cuts to new-build accessibility targets

Campaigners decry plan to reduce requirement for improved standards from 100% down to 40% of new homesGovernment plans to make huge cuts to targets for accessible new-build homes in England have been labelled a “monumental reversal” by campaigners, who say disabled people have been left feeling “bet…

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Anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr circulates false assertions amid measles outbreak

Children’s Health Defense using familiar playbook to defend health secretary as it downplays dangers of disease and exaggerate risks of vaccines, public health experts sayThe non-profit group that Robert F Kennedy Jr built into a giant of the anti-vaccine movement is defending its old boss even as t…

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My Husband Refuses One Part of Our Sex Life. I’m Not Sure I Can Live With It.

When I mention this to him, he changes the subject.

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The 98% mystery: Scientists just cracked the code on “junk DNA” linked to Alzheimer’s

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150 that truly influence gene activity—many tied to known …

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Norway's crown princess likely needs lung transplant, palace says

Mette-Marit has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that stiffens the lungs, making it hard to breathe.

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‘She was like a deer in headlights’: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada

In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providersWhen the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columb…

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'Your Mouth And Your Heart Are Connected': Gum Disease Linked to Heart Risks

The evidence is growing.

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Hunger monitor says Gaza is still seeing acute malnutrition but not famine

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said famine is no longer present but 1.6 million people still experience acute food insecurity and malnutrition.

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Mitochondria May Be the Reason Poor Mental Health Wrecks the Brain

APS A stressful year leads to anxiety. Lasting isolation gives way to depression. An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing. Psychological and social experiences shape the brain,...

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Confronting a Rising Tide of Cancer Misinformation

Samyukta Mullangi, Harvard Med The man sitting across from me in clinic was only 58, but he had been smoking two packs per day since his teenage years and was exposed to potential...

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This Popular Supplement May Help Inhibit Colorectal Cancer Development

New clinical evidence indicates that a widely used supplement may alter gut microbes involved in vitamin D biology and colorectal cancer processes. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have shown in a precision-focused clinical trial that taking a magnesium supplement can increase cer…

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‘Matter of survival’: South Korean president urges public health cover for hair loss

Medical professionals and some in conservative circles feel argument of Lee Jae Myung may be a bit thinSouth Korean president Lee Jae Myung has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, arguing that baldness has become a “matter of surviva…

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