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How Chronic Wounds Work—and Why They Won't Heal Health

How Chronic Wounds Work—and Why They Won't Heal

Chronic wounds affect millions worldwide and cost healthcare systems billions annually. Here's how normal healing breaks down, why oxygen starvation t...

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How Voice Biomarkers Detect Disease From Speech Science

How Voice Biomarkers Detect Disease From Speech

AI-powered voice analysis can identify signs of Parkinson's, depression, diabetes, and heart disease from short speech samples — a growing field that...

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How Iron Builds Up in Your Brain—and Why It Matters Science

How Iron Builds Up in Your Brain—and Why It Matters

Iron is essential for brain function, but as we age it accumulates in key brain regions, damaging neurons and driving cognitive decline. Scientists ar...

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How Gene Therapy for Deafness Works—One Injection Science

How Gene Therapy for Deafness Works—One Injection

Scientists can now restore hearing in people born deaf by injecting functional genes directly into the inner ear. Here's how the therapy works, which...

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What Is BMI and Why Experts Say It's Flawed Health

What Is BMI and Why Experts Say It's Flawed

Body mass index has guided medical decisions for decades, yet scientists and physicians increasingly warn that this 200-year-old formula misclassifies...

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How Microgravity Affects Fertility—and Why It Matters Science

How Microgravity Affects Fertility—and Why It Matters

As humanity plans missions to Mars and beyond, scientists are discovering that microgravity disrupts nearly every step of reproduction—from sperm navi...

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How Cartilage Works—and Why It Can't Heal Itself Health

How Cartilage Works—and Why It Can't Heal Itself

Cartilage is the smooth, rubbery tissue that cushions every joint in the body, yet it is one of the few tissues that cannot repair itself after damage...

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What Is Resistant Hypertension and Why It Won't Drop Health

What Is Resistant Hypertension and Why It Won't Drop

Resistant hypertension affects millions whose blood pressure stays dangerously high despite three or more medications. New research points to hidden h...

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How E-Cigarettes Work—and What Science Says Health

How E-Cigarettes Work—and What Science Says

E-cigarettes heat nicotine liquid into an inhalable aerosol instead of burning tobacco. The science on whether they help smokers quit—or create new he...

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What Are Silent Synapses and How They Shape Memory Science

What Are Silent Synapses and How They Shape Memory

Silent synapses are dormant brain connections that contain NMDA receptors but lack AMPA receptors. Around 30% of synapses in the adult cortex are sile...

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How the Brain Rewires Itself After a Stroke Science

How the Brain Rewires Itself After a Stroke

After a stroke destroys brain tissue, the brain can reroute lost functions through neuroplasticity—forming new pathways, sprouting axons, and even mak...

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How Kidney Stones Form—and Why They Keep Coming Back Health

How Kidney Stones Form—and Why They Keep Coming Back

Kidney stones affect one in ten adults and are growing more common worldwide. Here is how these painful crystals form inside the body, what types exis...

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