Prevention

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What Is Acromegaly and Why It's Hard to Diagnose Health

What Is Acromegaly and Why It's Hard to Diagnose

Acromegaly is a rare hormonal disorder caused by excess growth hormone in adults. It progresses slowly over years, often going undiagnosed for half a...

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How Pesticide Residues Get Into Your Body—and What to Do Health

How Pesticide Residues Get Into Your Body—and What to Do

Trace chemicals left on fruit and vegetables after farming enter your bloodstream every time you eat—here is how residues form, what risks they carry...

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How C. difficile Infections Work and Why They Recur Health

How C. difficile Infections Work and Why They Recur

C. difficile is a spore-forming bacterium that hijacks the gut after antibiotics wipe out protective bacteria. Here's how it works, why it keeps comin...

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Why Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Hard to Treat Health

Why Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Hard to Treat

Triple-negative breast cancer lacks the three receptors targeted by most breast cancer drugs, making it harder to treat than other subtypes — but new...

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Omega-3s and Dialysis: 43% Reduction in Cardiovascular Events Health

Omega-3s and Dialysis: 43% Reduction in Cardiovascular Events

A large randomized clinical trial, the PISCES study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates that four grams of fish oil per da...

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Czech Scientists Uncover Whooping Cough Secret in Science Science

Czech Scientists Uncover Whooping Cough Secret in Science

Scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from California, have described how the whooping cough bacterium uses...

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Epilepsy Drug Cuts Sleep Apnea by 47% in Trial Health

Epilepsy Drug Cuts Sleep Apnea by 47% in Trial

A major European phase 2 trial found that sulthiame, an existing epilepsy medication, reduced breathing interruptions in moderate-to-severe sleep apne...

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How Cocaine Rewires the Brain—and Why Quitting Is Hard Health

How Cocaine Rewires the Brain—and Why Quitting Is Hard

Cocaine addiction is not a moral failure but a biological one. Scientists now understand in detail how the drug hijacks the brain's reward circuitry,...

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What Is Sleep Apnea and How Is It Treated? Health

What Is Sleep Apnea and How Is It Treated?

Sleep apnea causes breathing to repeatedly stop during sleep, raising the risk of heart disease, stroke, and cognitive decline. Here is how it works a...

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How Pre-Workout Supplements Work and Their Hidden Risks Health

How Pre-Workout Supplements Work and Their Hidden Risks

Pre-workout supplements promise better performance at the gym, but their high-dose stimulant cocktails carry real risks — from disrupted sleep to card...

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How Non-Opioid Pain Drugs Work: NaV1.8 Blockers Explained

For the first time in 25 years, a genuinely new class of painkiller has won FDA approval. Here is how NaV1.8 blockers like suzetrigine stop pain at th...

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How Nasal Spray Vaccines Work and Why They Matter

Nasal spray vaccines work by training the immune system at the exact point where viruses enter the body — the nose and airways — creating a line of de...

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