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New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors ~science medicine biology.micro Article 945 words, published Mar 17 2022 5 votes
Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis ~science biology medicine Article 1295 words 12 votes
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First malaria vaccine approved by World Health Organization ~health medicine Article 1046 words 16 votes
The story of Lee Holloway: The decline of a brilliant young coder ~health.mental Article 7198 words 13 votes
Vicious doctors and cruel diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica ~science medicine Article 1736 words, published Jun 1 2021 3 votes
An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever ~health Article 1634 words 7 votes
A new, infectious coronavirus is detected in Malaysia – and it's coming from dogs ~health Article 976 words 8 votes
First patients to get CRISPR gene-editing treatment continue to thrive ~science medicine biology Article 1225 words 21 votes
Experimental compound revives memory in Alzheimer’s disease mice ~science biology medicine Article 1003 words 11 votes
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials ~science medicine Article 383 words 7 votes
Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain ~health.mental Article 669 words 4 votes
Joseph Goldberger’s filth parties: A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South ~health medicine Article 1898 words, published Sep 8 2020 9 votes
How to think like an epidemiologist ~science statistics Article 2341 words, published Aug 4 2020 6 votes
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age ~humanities.history Article 683 words 3 votes
Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 ~movies Article 838 words 12 votes
Coronavirus may be a blood vessel disease, which explains everything ~health medicine Article 54 words 26 votes
The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease ~humanities.history Article 1605 words, published Mar 29 2018 6 votes
Iceland has a record of its people's ancestry going back 1,000 years – it's given the country an advantage into understanding the genetic makeup of coronavirus ~science Article 6 votes
Smallpox and the long road to eradication ~science medicine Article 722 words, published Nov 12 2019 6 votes
Warnings of worsening hunger, malaria emerge as coronavirus cases spike 40% in Africa ~health Article 10 votes
How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process) ~health Article 1693 words, published Feb 12 2015 11 votes
The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare ~tech Article 7186 words 24 votes