The Environmental Protection Agency is not banning a pesticide linked to developmental issues in children, the agency announced this week
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Death toll in Indian encephalitis outbreak rises to 152
India’s Supreme Court on Monday directed state and national authorities to file reports to the court on an encephalitis outbreak
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Maine becomes 8th state to legalize assisted suicide
Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives
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Scientists feel chill of crackdown on fetal tissue research
To save babies from brain-damaging birth defects, University of Pittsburgh scientist Carolyn Coyne studies placentas from fetuses that otherwise would
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Lifesaving innovations for the most vulnerable newborns
What is believed to be the world’s smallest newborn baby to survive entered the world nearly four months earlier than
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Medical bill for 9-year-old girl’s snakebite? $142,938
This is a Kaiser Health News story. It was dusk as Oakley Yoder and the other summer camp kids hiked
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Too good to be true? Company claims to have ‘complete cure for cancer’ within a year
An Israeli biopharmaceutical company recently announced that it would be able to cure cancer within the next year. But is
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Nearly half of US adults have heart or blood vessel disease
A new report estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease,
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Scientists getting ahead of Rift Valley fever after learning from Zika epidemic
The Zika virus epidemic of 2015 resulted in thousands of Brazilian babies being born with severe brain defects after the
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A third of parents to skip flu shot for their kids
Last year’s flu season was among the deadliest the U.S. has seen in decades. But with this year’s flu season
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