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Topic: Health (page 40)

Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

How drugs know where to go in the body

Tom Anchordoquy - The Conversation
3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

"Curing" cancer is an outdated idea

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Body System concept (Getty Images/zf L)

Your immune system runs on a clock

Matthew Rozsa
High school student asleep in class (Getty Images/Image Source)

The teen sleep crisis

Gail Cornwall
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Blue and Red Population concept (Getty Images/Constantine Johnny)

Mortality gap between red, blue counties

Eric Schank
Man clutching his chest from acute pain (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

Yes, you can die of a "broken heart"

Nicole Karlis
Malaria vaccine (Getty Images/Hailshadow)

Why the malaria vaccine took 35 years

Pratik Pawar - Undark
Medical syringes are seen with 'Monkeypox' sign displayed on a screen in the backgound in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on May 26, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Who wants a monkeypox vaccine?

Nicole Karlis
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Inside the "ugly" produce industry

Kate Yoder - Grist
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

When medical test costs suddenly change

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
A CVS pharmacist gives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, CA (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Long COVID signs overlooked in seniors

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
View of redwood trees from the forest floor (Getty Images/James Yu)

Tree planting helps the elderly

Julia Kane - Grist
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Woman struggling to sleep at night (Getty Images/Motortion)

Warming temps are eroding our sleep

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Adult male patient describing a chest issue to his doctor (Getty Images/DjelicS)

Wait, men can lactate?

Matthew Rozsa
Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

Why won't more seniors get boosters?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
At a half way house for recovering addicts, supervisors who are in recovery themselves use a fentanyl strip to test for drugs in the urine of a fellow resident on March 22, 2019. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why fentanyl is so deadly

Kavita Babu - The Conversation
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Residents talk with a caregiver in the dining room at Emerald Court in Anaheim, CA on Monday, March 8, 2021. (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Nursing home staff lagging on boosters

Eric Schank
Baby formula shortage, empty shelves at Target due to product recall and supply chain issues, Queens, New York. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Formula scarcity spurs deeper questions

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Kids playing with handheld video games in the library (Getty Images/Andy Ryan)

Are video games good for kids?

Matthew Rozsa
A shopper is reflected in a glass case while looking at baby formula at a grocery store in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2022. The United States is in the grip of a severe shortage of baby formula. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The baby formula scammers are here

Nicole Karlis
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Dusting a broccoli seed bed, the speeding plane throws out a tail of insect-killing dust that gets underneath as well as on top of the small leaves. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The toxic legacy of DDT

Andru Okun - Undark
Preparing baby milk formula (Getty Images/HUIZENG HU)

Don't make baby formula at home

Matthew Rozsa
3D render of a man with strong pain in head (Getty Images/peterschreiber.media)

Unlocking the mysteries of pain

Emily Cataneo - Undark
In vitro fertilization process close up (Getty Images/Antonio Marquez lanza)

Post-Roe, IVF treatment may be impeded

Nicole Karlis
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