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As the measles outbreak in Texas spreads, attention is turning to what is commonly called the MMR vaccine.

A patient who came to a hospital emergency room in Montgomery County is Pennsylvania’s first confirmed measles case this year amid a national surge of the highly contagious virus, according to health officials.

It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast, cervical, and other cancers that firefighters who work for federal agencies may develop because of hazardous exposures on the job.

Five years ago, on a late Monday evening in March, Gov. Brian Kemp and his top health aides hastily called a news conference at the Capitol to make an announcement that would touch every person in Georgia.

Learning that your child has cancer is overwhelming, and talking to them about it can feel just as difficult.

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions. The Kobe University discovery of this symbiotic relationship also points the way to developing novel therapeutics.

You’ve probably heard the phrase, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it,” and now, science backs it up. A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern University’s School of Communication, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Wisconsin-Madison reveals a region of the brain, long known for early auditory processing, plays a far greater role in interpreting speech than previously understood.

The KRAS G12C mutation is found in approximately 3% of all colorectal cancer cases and 1% to 2% of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cases, according to Hao Xie, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center.

People seeking emergency care for hallucinogen use were at a 2.6-fold higher risk of death within five years than the general population, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

A “chasm of misunderstanding and miscommunication” is often experienced between clinicians and patients, leading to autoimmune diseases such as lupus and vasculitis being wrongly diagnosed as psychiatric or psychosomatic conditions, with a profound and lasting impact on patients, researchers have found.