A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes was pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said Tuesday (29)
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Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicentre South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed Tuesday (29)
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Unlike the previous reference — which was largely based on the DNA of one mixed-race man from Buffalo, New York, with inputs from a few dozen other individuals, mostly of European descent — the new ‘pangenome’ incorporates nearly complete…
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More than 11,000 children are known to have been killed or maimed in Yemen's civil war since it escalated nearly eight years ago, the United Nations said Monday (12)
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PARIS - Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by…
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By Pam Belluck Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-COVID health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of…
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By Raymond Zhong WASHINGTON - In the two years before the pandemic began, markets in the Chinese city of Wuhan were selling nearly three dozen animal species that can harbour pathogens that jump to humans, researchers have found, shedding…
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GENEVA - Long working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29% increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization…
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sometimes rendered in English as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organization (NGO) of French origin best known for its projects in conflict zones and in…
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