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FDA officials took months to inspect a critical plant in Europe, leaving Americans without shots as monkeypox spreads ~health medicine Article 1286 words, published Jul 8 2022 9 votes
Canada’s boar war - Wild pigs are invasive, destructive and dangerous, and their populations in Canada are exploding out of control. How can we fight back? ~enviro Article 4793 words 12 votes
Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness ~science biology medicine Article 2391 words 4 votes
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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
Good vibrations - utilizing a vibrotactile glove to treat Parkinson's disease ~health Article 1572 words, published Oct 14 2021 4 votes
The single most important lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic: tell the truth ~health Article 1664 words 8 votes
‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease ~health medicine Article 1397 words, published Mar 18 2019 5 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
Some patients could be living with the aftereffects of Covid-19 for years to come. Recent research into chronic fatigue syndrome might help us understand how to treat them. ~health healthcare Article 7815 words, published Jan 21 2021 12 votes
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
An equine influenza in 1872 brought the US to a standstill and laid bare how essential horses were to the economy ~humanities.history Article 1131 words 6 votes
Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials ~science medicine Article 383 words 7 votes
Due to the pandemic, an estimated fifty million children in Afghanistan and Pakistan missed polio vaccines this year ~health medicine Article 1880 words 6 votes
In 1978, a photographer at a Birmingham lab fell ill with smallpox, prompting a race against time to prevent an epidemic. Does the outbreak carry lessons for Covid-19? ~health Article 3483 words 12 votes
Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses ~health Article 2587 words 6 votes
Holiday gatherings devastated Seattle during 1918 flu: After five weeks of lock down restrictions, the city thought it had beaten the virus. It hadn’t. ~humanities.history Link 15 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
How the 1918 flu pandemic got meme-ified in jokes, songs, and poems ~humanities.history Article 1571 words 9 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