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Imagine losing an arm or leg and thinking “No problem! It will grow back.” Now, imagine finding a bump on your big toe one day, only to have it grow into…
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We spend a lot of our time on our rear ends. The average adult in the U.S. sits for more than six hours each day, while most teenagers are seated for over…
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The Spanish flu infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, and killed tens of millions. A century later, we have vaccines, antibiotics, advanced…
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Jenny Wilkerson, University of Florida and Lance McMahon, University of Florida Cannabidiol, or CBD, has become a household name. On many social media…
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"There's plenty of sciencethat supports that CBD might have therapeutic indications. Obviously, for intractable pediatric epilepsy, CBD does have clinical…
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Life expectancies have increased around the globe in recent decades. That is, in large part, due to the decline in infectious diseases. But, for some of…
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“The term quantum leap has already pervaded our vocabulary. We use it to mean something magical - something that challenges the imagination - even if many…
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Acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, has been compared to polio - a description that strikes fear in the hearts of parents. What starts as a respiratory…
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“Science helps us diagnose the problem. The reality, though, is that scientists have been diagnosing for quite a while and it still hasn’t moved us to…
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The EPA has released an action plan for addressing the risks posed by a large class of chemicals known collectively as PFAS, which are used as flame…