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South Carolina is seeing the biggest measles outbreak in the U.S. in decades, spreading mainly among unvaccinated children. At the epicenter is a story as much about politics as it is about a virus.
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Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it's part of a trend of scrubbing literature dealing with uncomfortable topics.
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A study published this week in the Journal of American College Health found that more than half of U.S. college students report feeling lonely.
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President Trump's big domestic policy agenda makes cuts to Medicaid. According to a health policy research nonprofit, rural areas are expected to lose around $140 billion. But the law also will send states $50 billion over 5 years to transform rural health.
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Addiction specialist Dr. Mark S. Gold says GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy prompting "a reconceptualization of addiction itself" and could help doctors treat alcohol and drug addiction.
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Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.
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Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence that poop was used medicinally more than 2,000 years ago.
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The billionaire tech mogul's testimony was part of a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles. The jury's verdict in the case could shape how some 1,600 other pending cases from families and school districts are resolved.
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The Food and Drug Administration's about-face comes a little more than a week after the agency refused to consider the company's application to market the new kind of influenza vaccine.
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The rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder led to the death this week of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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Nearly 1,000 people in South Carolina have been infected in a measles outbreak that started in a largely unvaccinated community in October.
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The latest nutrition guidelines urge Americans to eat fewer ultra-processed foods. But when it comes to carbs, many people don't know which ones to avoid.