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    How do you live longer? Your genes may help
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    US life expectancy reached a record high in 2024 as deaths from drug overdose and Covid-19 dropped
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    Confusion remains after Trump administration abruptly halts public health funding to cities and states, then reverses course
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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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    South Carolina measles outbreak is largest in US since measles was declared eliminated
  • The US Department of Homeland Security Florence Detention Center, which houses the Florence Immigration Court in Florence, Arizona, on February 27, 2025.
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    Case of measles confirmed in Arizona ICE facility
  • The flu isn’t done yet, as new data suggests infections are rebounding
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  • BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12: The full moon rises over Simatai Great Wall on night of the Lantern Festival on February 12, 2025 in Beijing, China. The 15th day of the first month on the Chinese lunar calendar marks the Lantern Festival, which falls on February 12 this year. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
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    See February’s full snow moon light up the sky
  • A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches from Launch Site One in West Texas north of Van Horn on March 31, 2022. The NS-20 mission carries Blue Origin's New Shepard Chief Architect Gary Lai, Marty Allen, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen, and Dr. George Nield into space. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Blue Origin pauses trips on rocket that carried Jeff Bezos, Katy Perry and William Shatner to space
  • A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.
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    Scientists discover molecule in space that hints at origin of life
  • A sculpture of a man's head inside the beak of an owl is thought to represent the individual buried inside the tomb.
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  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 25:  People move through the snow in Brooklyn as a major winter storm moves through the area on January 25, 2026 in New York City. A massive winter storm is expected to bring frigid temperatures, ice, and snow to millions of Americans across the nation.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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    How to stay safe in cold weather, according to a doctor
  • One cookbook author ate chocolate cake daily for 6 years. Now she shares her recipe
  • What cardiologists want you to know about MAHA’s push to eat more fat
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  • Autism advocates celebrate release of ‘magical’ first-ever Barbie on the spectrum
  • 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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