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  • A sign for flu & COVID-19 vaccines is displayed outside a CVS store in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, on September 23.
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    Flu season in the US is heating up, driven by new subclade K variant
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    There are two new antibiotics to treat a common STI, with hope to combat drug resistance
  • A pharmacy advertises COVID -19 testing and a vaccine on September 04, 2025 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
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    Covid-19 vaccination substantially lowered risks for children last season, CDC report says
  • Raynard Covarrubio fills a syringe with the MMR vaccine, at a vaccine clinic put on by Lubbock Public Health Department on March 1, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas.
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    More than 250 in South Carolina in quarantine amid measles outbreak
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    At least 197 children were fathered by sperm donor with cancer-causing gene. Some have already died
  • Many Nivea sunscreen products, particularly those sold in Australia and Europe, contain bemotrizinol. A bottle of sunscreen is at Vagia beach on the island of Serifos, Greece, on July 6, 2025.
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    FDA proposes adding sunscreen ingredient commonly used in other parts of the world to list of permitted products
  • The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted last week to drop a recommendation that all infants be vaccinated at hepatitis B shortly after birth.
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    CDC vaccine advisers’ new focus on hepatitis B tests in pregnancy is not enough, some doctors warn
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  • Flu season in the US is heating up, driven by new subclade K variant
  • FDA approves first new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea in decades, with hope to combat drug resistance
  • Covid-19 vaccination substantially lowered risks for children last season, CDC report says
  • FDA proposes adding sunscreen ingredient commonly used in other parts of the world to list of permitted products
  • Tracking measles cases in the United States
  • Cervical cancer screening just got easier. A doctor explains why this change matters
  • At least 197 children were fathered by sperm donor with cancer-causing gene. Some have already died

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  • Annie Wang, 14, poses after an interview discussing Australia’s social media ban for users under 16, which is scheduled to take effect on December 10, in Sydney, Australia, November 22, 2025.
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    It’s time to do as the Australians do and ban your kids from social media
  • Let's dispel the biggest misconception about dried beans — they don't require any more hands-on prep time than canned beans, writes Casey Barber.
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  • CALIFORNIA, USA - DECEMBER 14: A view of the Geminid meteor shower and stargazing at the Tunnel View of Yosemite National Park in California, United States on December 14, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    One of the best meteor showers of the year will peak this weekend
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    ‘Darkest fabric ever made’ is inspired by a bird of paradise
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    She died in 1817 after an unidentified illness. Now it’s ‘one of literature’s great mysteries’
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    New book details the epic story behind the fight to save Russia’s Amur tigers
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  • Struggling to stay awake in a meeting? Here’s what to do
  • Achilles tendon injuries are on the rise. Experts explain the reasons why
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