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  • The South Carolina Department of Public Health Mobile Health Unit, with two administrators and two nurses help people get different vaccinations, including for measles. The truck set up in the Boiling Springs Library Parking lot Monday, October 20, 2025 to be of service to the community in Spartanburg County, where an outbreak has caught the attention of area residents.
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    The US surpassed 1,100 measles cases in two months. Expect more deaths next
  • ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - FEBRUARY 20: A local resident shops at a supermarket on February 20, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. The U.S. economy's growth slowed to a 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2025. (Photo by Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
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    Majority of Americans say government is not protecting them from toxic chemicals
  • FILE - Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells, known as HeLa cells, have been used in medical research without her permission, say a prayer with attorneys outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.
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    Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks’ estate over use of her ‘stolen’ cells to advance medicine
  • Dr. Casey Means is facing questions from a Senate panel on Wednesday in her bid to become surgeon general of the United States.
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  • Pens for the diabetes drug Ozempic sit on a production line at Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk's site in Hillerod, Denmark, September 26, 2023.
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    Novo Nordisk to slash Ozempic and Wegovy list prices by up to 50% for 2027
  • An executive order from President Trump would boost domestic production of glyphosate, the world's most widely used weed killer.
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    What to know about glyphosate, the herbicide behind a Trump executive order that’s angered MAHA moms
  • Estrogen patches go into short supply as demand for menopause hormone therapy grows.
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    Estrogen patches in short supply as demand for menopause hormone therapy grows
  • Juri Sleet, 4, works with Crystal Webb, a kindergarten readiness coordinator at Linden Primary Care Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Thursday, December 11, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio.
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    As literacy rates lag, a pediatric hospital is screening for reading ability
  • Podiatrists say these are the best shower shoes to protect your feet from infections
  • More organs are being donated after the heart stops, not brain death. Policies are changing, too
  • 12 best pillows to help with snoring, according to sleep experts
  • Hospitals fighting measles confront a challenge: Few doctors have seen it before
  • States sue Trump administration over changes to childhood vaccine recommendations
  • CDC deputy director abruptly departs agency
  • FDA proposes new system for approving customized drugs and therapies for rare diseases

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  • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 03: NASA's Artemis II sits on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on February 03, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis II wet dress rehearsal countdown was terminated due to a liquid hydrogen leak. The next launch attempt will be in March. The mission is scheduled to last 10 days and will take astronauts around the Moon and back to Earth. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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  • The line-up of three evening planets in the southwest twilight sky, on December 17, 2021 — with Jupiter at top left, Venus at bottom right, and dimmer Saturn in the middle, all defining the line of the ecliptic in the cold winter sky this night. The stars of Capricornus are at centre. . (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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  • STORMI GREENER ¬• sgreener@startribune.com Sheri Eke has a prosthetic leg that allows her to walk, run, bike, hike, moto-cross and just about anything athletically that she wishes. Sheri lost her right leg in a gun shooting accident 14 years ago. She has tried  numerous legs and feet, works for Attobock Distribution Co., the same company that makes the prosthetics and continues to better the product by wearing them hard. Here Sheri takes a short walk-run with some women she met up with in a local park....from left to right (from behine) Jennifer Bodine, Jodi Glaser, Lisa Salzl, Sheri (herself) and J. Pfaffinger. Sheri is preparing for her participation in the Hope & Possibility 5K, a run organized for disabled athletes, amputees in particular (Photo by STORMI GREENER/Star Tribune via Getty Images) (Photo by STORMI GREENER/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
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