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An outbreak of salmonella linked to cucumbers has now been tied to 100 known cases of the illness across 23 states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Thursday.

In a pivotal move, the United States Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will review South Carolina’s controversial decision to cut off state funding for Planned Parenthood clinics, which provide critical health services to low-income residents.

Researchers have been able to identify at least three distinct subtypes of a rare type of bone cancer for the first time, which could transform clinical trials and patient care.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer. It spreads quickly and has few treatment options. It is also serious because of its rate of recurrence.

Researchers have analyzed cause-of-death data for 24 countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers found that life expectancy declined in 2020 for all but four of the 24 included countries, with the US experiencing the largest decline of 2.1 years for males. In 2021, most countries experienced further declines in life expectancy, with females in Bulgaria and males in Latvia experiencing the largest losses of over two years.

Can simple diet and lifestyle changes keep your brain healthy? Do you have the power to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia or lower your MS risks?

An investigational therapy is demonstrating preclinical promise against non-Hodgkin lymphoma by boosting natural killer cells and efficiently annihilating the malignancy without toxicity to the patient, a team of cancer biologists in France has found.

POLICE have unearthed a plot to allegedly harm President Hakainde Hichilema using black magic. Two people among them a Mozambican have since been arrested while a brother to former Petauke Member of Parliament Emmanuel Banda is on the run. Jasten Candune, a Mozambican and Leonard Phiri have been apprehend after being found in possession of […]

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Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking. The research is published in eBioMedicine.

A new paper from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers is helping to reveal the “rules” for engineering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) Tregs.