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Con el verano marcando el comienzo de la temporada alta de mosquitos, autoridades sanitarias y de control de vectores se preparan para la posibilidad de otro año con tasas históricas de dengue. Y con el cambio climático, la falta de una vacuna...
As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year of historic rates of dengue. And with climate change, the lack of an effective vaccine, and federal research cuts, they...
For Brianna Henderson, birth control isn’t just about preventing pregnancy. The Texas mother of two was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal heart condition after having her second child. In addition to avoiding another pregnancy that could...
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by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota...
In the early days of the West Texas measles outbreak, Thang Nguyen eyed the rising number of cases and worried. His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of the vaccine’s two doses. So, in mid-March, he took his family to...
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Findings show this amino acid did not longitudinally decline with age.