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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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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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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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Tissue engineering combines biology, medicine, and engineering to build replacement organs from a patient's own cells, offering hope to millions on tr...
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PCSK9 inhibitors represent a powerful class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that work by preserving the liver's ability to clear LDL from the bloodstrea...
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A landmark study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults with heart disease found that shingles vaccination reduced major cardiac events by 46% and all-cause mo...
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Shingles isn't just a painful rash. The varicella-zoster virus can invade blood vessels, trigger inflammation, and raise the risk of heart attack and...
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Fusobacterium nucleatum, a common oral bacterium linked to gum disease, can travel through the bloodstream to fuel tumor growth in the colon, breast,...
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GLP-1 receptor agonists mimic a natural gut hormone to regulate blood sugar, suppress appetite, and promote weight loss. Originally developed for diab...
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A landmark 43-year study of over 131,000 people finds that drinking 2-3 cups of caffeinated coffee or 1-2 cups of tea daily is associated with signifi...
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Scientists have identified multiple mechanisms through which caffeine shields the brain from cognitive decline, from blocking adenosine receptors to r...
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ECMO — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — is a life-support machine that does the work of the heart and lungs outside the body. Here is how it work...
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Long dismissed as irrelevant after childhood, the thymus gland is now recognized as a key driver of immune health throughout adult life—and new resear...
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