In the four decades since the first cases of what would come to be known as AIDS were documented, scientists
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Can you wake up after decades in a coma? The story behind the headlines
In 1991, a car crash left Munira Abdulla, a 32-year-old woman from the United Arab Emirates, with devastating brain injuries.
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More than half a million breast cancer deaths averted in the US over three decades
Latest U.S. estimates indicate that since 1989, hundreds of thousands of women’s lives have been saved by mammography and improvements
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US approves first new type of flu drug in 2 decades
U.S. health regulators have approved the first new type of flu drug in two decades. Wednesday’s approval of Xofluza for
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Shifting causes of death in Shanghai, China, over many decades
A large study conducted over 42 years in Shanghai—China’s largest city—indicates that socioeconomic development most likely contributed to lower death
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Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades
Polio has been reported in Venezuela, a crisis-wracked country where the disease had been eradicated decades ago, the Pan-American Health
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