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NOTICED a scratching or burning feeling in your throat? Or maybe it’s like you’ve swallowed sandpaper or you have an ...

Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

It's time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an ...

It's time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an ...

Brazil has unveiled the world's largest biofactory dedicated to breeding mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, an ...

The historian Kyle Harper on the history of plagues, the rise of anti-vaccination politics, and why measles is back in ...

A single generation can forget what once defined daily life—proof of how powerfully vaccines have reshaped our collective ...

Vultures are well adapted to scavenging the dead. Besides the bald head, which keeps the birds cleaner when diving into ...

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