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Gen X, millennials are about three times more likely than their parents to be diagnosed with appendix cancer, study finds
Cancer Age & Generations See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow The pain was so sharp that Chris Williams took himself to the hospital. It was a Tuesday evening in September 2021 when Williams started to feel throbbing abdominal pain and nausea. By the next morning, it …
RFK Jr.’s new vaccine advisers include ER doctor who posted Islamophobic commentary online, expert witnesses against vaccines
Vaccines Respiratory viruses Prescription drugs Disability issues See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Among the eight people who Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are an emergency physician …
New federal Covid-19 vaccine policies are already keeping some people from getting shots
Vaccines Respiratory viruses Maternal health Women’s health See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow After federal health officials made abrupt changes to US Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women last month, there’s new confusion and uncertainty about who can get the shots — and some reports that …
‘Whole again’: Man receives double hand transplant after nearly 17 years
See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow There’s a video on Luka Krizanac’s phone that captures him making coffee at home on an espresso machine. It’s the type of video anyone might take to show off a new gadget to friends or recommend a favorite bag of …
‘Come and help us’: Milwaukee parents fire back at Trump administration for denying federal aid amid lead crisis in schools
Pollution Environmental disease Student life See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Milwaukee — The library at Starms Discovery Learning Center has cheerful peach and blue walls, and squat wooden shelves filled with books wrapped in thick plastic jackets to protect them from the touches and smudges …
Senators grill NIH director on massive budget cuts
Congressional news See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya faced critical questions from both Republican and Democratic senators Tuesday as he sought to defend the Trump administration’s sweeping plans to reorganize the agency and slash budgets for medical research. …