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How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction Health

How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction

Nav1.8 sodium channel blockers represent the first new class of non-opioid painkillers in over two decades, targeting peripheral pain signals before t...

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Shingles Vaccine Cuts Heart Attack Risk by 46% in New Study Health

Shingles Vaccine Cuts Heart Attack Risk by 46% in New Study

A major study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults presented at the American College of Cardiology found that the shingles vaccine reduced serious cardiac ev...

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What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why Is It So Common? Health

What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why Is It So Common?

Fatty liver disease, now called MASLD, silently affects nearly one in three adults worldwide. Here is how it develops, why it often goes undetected, a...

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How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure Science

How the Brainstem Controls Blood Pressure

Scientists have identified a brainstem region called the lateral parafacial area that drives high blood pressure by constricting blood vessels, openin...

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How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread Science

How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread

Harmful algal blooms poison water, kill marine life, and cost economies billions. Here is how they form, what makes them toxic, and why they are growi...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of any major cancer, largely because it hides deep in the body, produces no early symptoms, and resists...

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How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw

Liquid biopsies analyze tiny fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to detect cancer, guide treatmen...

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How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite Science

How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite

Mosquitoes use a sophisticated multi-step sensory system—combining CO₂ detection, body odor, visual cues, infrared radiation, and taste—to locate and...

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How Smart Bandages Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Smart Bandages Work—and Why They Matter

Smart bandages use embedded sensors, wireless electronics, and on-demand drug delivery to monitor wounds in real time and accelerate healing—a leap be...

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How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why Science

How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why

As men age, their blood cells increasingly shed the Y chromosome in a process called mosaic loss of Y (mLOY), which scientists now link to heart disea...

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How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters Health

How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters

Fetal surgery allows doctors to operate on unborn babies inside the womb, treating life-threatening conditions like spina bifida months before birth....

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New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial Health

New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial

Merck's experimental oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide slashed LDL cholesterol by up to 60% in a phase 3 trial of nearly 3,000 patients, matching inject...

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