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  • A child is vaccinated during an immunization event in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on October 24, 2025.
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    US judge blocks Kennedy’s efforts to overhaul US vaccine policy
  • EMBARGOED TO 2230 THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5 File photo dated 11/09/17 of a statin tablet on an empty packet. Most side-effects linked to statins are not caused by the drugs, a new study suggests. After a comprehensive review of side-effects linked to the cholesterol-busting drugs, academics from the University of Oxford have called for patient information leaflets to be updated. Issue date: Thursday February 5, 2026. 83326970 (Press Association via AP Images)
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    Millions more people may need to start cholesterol-lowering medications as young as their 30s. Here’s why
  • Cherise Doyley, 32, stands at her home in Yulee, Florida on March 1, 2026. In 2024, Doyley was forced to have a court-ordered c-section. Doyley, who was a professional birthing doula, now focuses on midwifery and providing postpartum depression resources for moms. “I don’t think I will ever attend another birth as a doula. It’s too traumatizing for me. I’ve had to get creative with how I show up in the birth space.”
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    They didn’t want to have C-sections. A judge would decide how they gave birth
  • ATLANTA, GEORGIA - DECEMBER The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global headquarters is seen during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on December 4, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. The ACIP is meeting to vote on changes to the childhood vaccination schedule and delay hepatitis B shots. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
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    CDC vaccine committee drops push to stop recommending mRNA Covid-19 shots, for now
  • Close-up of a woman reviewing receipts at kitchen table.
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    Millions of Americans are skipping meals or cutting back on utilities to afford health care
  • A person poses with a bottle of Leucovorin in this illustration picture taken in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S. September 24, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah Beierr
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    ‘Betrayed’: Families are dealing with dashed hopes after pivot on autism treatment
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  • Potentially toxic ‘forever chemicals’ may harm kids during critical period for bone development
  • E. coli linked to cheddar cheese made with raw milk sickens 7 in the US
  • What do you want to know about high cholesterol treatment for younger people?
  • Two dead, 11 others infected in meningitis outbreak linked to English university
  • Teens are turning to AI for nearly everything. But diet information may be a big risk
  • Podiatrists say these are the best arch-support sandals for healthy, pain-free feet
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  • Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). The cut-out reveals the central black hole with it surrounding accretion disk. What makes this a black hole star is the surrounding envelope of turbulent gas. This configuration can explain what astronomers observe in the object they are calling “The Cliff.”
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    Webb telescope photos show mysterious little red dots. Astronomers don’t know what they are
  • Photograph looking out into the Main Ethiopian Rift taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia. Photograph: Prof. Thomas Gernon (University of Southampton).
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    Africa’s great divide: Why the continent’s split is so exciting for science
  • NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are seen illuminated by lights at Launch Complex 39B, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the coming days, engineers will prepare for the wet dress rehearsal, a two-day test that simulates launch day. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth no later than April 2026.
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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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