Health

France's National Assembly adopts long-debated bill legalizing end-of-life options

PARIS -- France’s lower house of parliament adopted a bill Tuesday to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public demands grow across Europe for legal end-of-life optio...

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French court to deliver verdict in landmark child sex abuse case

A French court will deliver its verdict Wednesday in one of the country’s largest-ever child sex abuse cases, which has raised questions about how a pedophile surgeon was able to rape hundreds of v...

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Silence on E. Coli Outbreak Highlights How Trump Team’s Changes Undermine Food Safety

Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game. Days l...

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In Arizona County That Backed Trump, Conflicted Feelings About Cutting Medicaid

GLOBE, Ariz. — Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty of people on Medicaid. Cox, who is a proper...

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How the Aussie Trades Are Prioritising Mental Health

Mental health has become a major talking point in the construction and trade industries across Australia. For years, the tough-it-out culture among tradies meant mental wellbeing often took a backs...

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Measles cases seem to be slowing down in the US. What's behind it?

About a month ago, the rate of new measles cases was accelerating at a seemingly unprecedented rate with more than 100 infections being confirmed every week.However, over the last couple of weeks, ...

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Girls with painful periods are twice as likely as their peers to have symptoms of anxiety or depression

ShutterstockAround half of teenage girls experience moderate to severe period pain. The mechanical force of the uterus contracting and inflammatory chemicals such as prostaglandins contribute to t...

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The threat to the NIH

What is the National Institutes of Health?It's the largest funder of biomedical research in the world by far and the force behind some of the biggest medical break...

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The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming

The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific name...

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‘Japanese Walking’: Try This Low-Impact Fitness Hack for Better Heart Health

“Japanese walking” is a low impact exercise protocol that may help improve cardiometabolic health. Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images Interval walking training (IWT) is a form of walking exer...

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A leading medical group warns of a rise in cholera cases and new outbreak in Sudan

A leading medical group is warning of a rising number of cholera cases in war-torn Sudan as a new outbreak of the waterborne disease grips the countryCAIRO -- A leading medical group warned on Tues...

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US aid kept many hungry Somali children alive. Now that money is disappearing

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The cries of distressed children filled the ward for the severely malnourished. Among the patients was 1-year-old Maka’il Mohamed. Doctors pressed his chest in a desperate att...

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A Ministroke Can Have Major Consequences

Kristin Kramer woke up early on a Tuesday morning 10 years ago because one of her dogs needed to go out. Then, a couple of odd things happened. When she tried to c...

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Federal Cuts Ripple Through a Bioscience Hub in Rural Montana

HAMILTON, Mont. — Scientists are often careful to take off their work badges when they leave the campus of one of the nation’s top research facilities, here in southwestern Montana’s Bitterroot Val...

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I had no idea I had hep C for 40 years – my GP failed to tell me I tested positive as it slowly destroyed my life

FRANK Jamieson says his GP practice failed to tell him he had a potentially deadly virus – more than 20 ye...

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Newcastle star Callum Wilson bravely opens up on moment he considered taking his own life as a child

CALLUM WILSON revealed he contemplated suicide aged 12 and how seeking therapy a year ago saved him from h...

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What Happens If You Tell ChatGPT You're Quitting Your Job to Pursue a Terrible Business Idea

Earlier this year, users of OpenAI's ChatGPT found that the chatbot had become incredibly prone to groveling at their feet, resulting in an AI model that became "too sycophant-y and annoying," in t...

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Blind tennis champion Naqi Rizvi lobbies for sport's awareness and Paralympic inclusion

LONDON -- Naqi Rizvi loves the “absolute freedom” he feels on the tennis court.Winning titles is fun, too.The 34-year-old blind tennis champion is on a mission to not only raise awareness but also ...

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A Convenient Piece of Junk Science

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a long love affair with junk science, and as secretary of Health and Human Services, he has embraced it once more, most brazenly to justify his false claims that vacci...

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Government-Assisted Suicide Is Spreading Across The Western World

Government-Assisted Suicide Is Spreading Across The Western World Is it humanitarian empathy, or a nihilistic death cult that desires a legal rationale for population control? The l...

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Haitians with HIV defy stigma as they publicly denounce USAID cuts and dwindling medication

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A video showing dozens of people marching toward the office of Haiti’s prime minister elicited gasps from some viewers as it circulated recently on social media. The protes...

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