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Hanan Balkhy has a lot on her plate these days. Balkhy is the director of the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean region, an entity that includes several of the countries caught up

When Ben Sasse, a former United States senator (R-Neb.), learned he had metastatic pancreatic cancer, he quickly chose action over comfort. Whatever he could do to save his life, for as long

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With thousands of illegal e-cigarettes for sale in the U.S., both the Trump and Biden administrations have vowed to crack down on the illicit fruit- and candy-flavored vapes that hold particular appeal

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After a courtroom defeat, Trump administration health officials have revised the governing documents for a key federal vaccine panel to broaden its membership, increase its focus on potential harms of vaccines, and

Georg Schett had two things: a young patient deathly ill with lupus, and a couple of mouse studies raising the possibility that special T cells could tame the condition. The German physician-scientist

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“Betcha can’t eat just one!” This slogan for Lay’s potato chips seemed endearing in mid-20th-century America, before the rise of the obesity epidemic. Looking back from today, it foreshadowed a food industry

At first blush, it might seem like Charleston, W.Va., New York, N.Y., and Janesville, Wis., have little in common.  But those three metros were flagged in a new report as having some