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Britney Spears Fights IRS Over 2021 Income Tax Bill
The federal tax authority claims Spears underreported her income by $1.4 million. She disagrees.
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STAT+: Drugmakers promise to stockpile certain drugs as part of new drug pricing deals
Drugmakers promise to stockpile certain drugs as part of new drug pricing deals
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Hunger monitor says Gaza is still seeing acute malnutrition but not famine
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said famine is no longer present but 1.6 million people still experience acute food insecurity and malnutrition.
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Disabled people in England ‘betrayed’ by cuts to new-build accessibility targets
Campaigners decry plan to reduce requirement for improved standards from 100% down to 40% of new homesGovernment plans to make huge cuts to targets for accessible new-build homes in England have been labelled a “monumental reversal” by campaigners, who say disabled people have been left feeling “bet…
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Norway's crown princess likely needs lung transplant, palace says
Mette-Marit has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that stiffens the lungs, making it hard to breathe.
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‘She was like a deer in headlights’: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada
In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providersWhen the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columb…
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'Your Mouth And Your Heart Are Connected': Gum Disease Linked to Heart Risks
The evidence is growing.
Schuylerrichardson
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Mitochondria May Be the Reason Poor Mental Health Wrecks the Brain
APS A stressful year leads to anxiety. Lasting isolation gives way to depression. An old trauma nags until it becomes paralyzing. Psychological and social experiences shape the brain,...
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Here's how much ACA costs would have risen this year without subsidies
Millions of people with an Affordable Care Act health plan face a massive jump in premiums next year — this chart shows just how much.
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Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers face death in jail, doctors say
Six British hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action are at risk of death in prison, doctors and relatives warn.
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STAT+: Kennedy vaccine adviser to take a new role at CDC on children’s health research
A vaccine adviser at the CDC with ties to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being given a new portfolio overseeing research into adverse childhood experiences.
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‘Matter of survival’: South Korean president urges public health cover for hair loss
Medical professionals and some in conservative circles feel argument of Lee Jae Myung may be a bit thinSouth Korean president Lee Jae Myung has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, arguing that baldness has become a “matter of surviva…
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Why Holiday 'Rest' Doesn't Actually Restore Us, And What Works Better
The way you relax may be backfiring.
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A letter from STAT’s Rick Berke on a tumultuous year in health and science
A letter to readers from STAT Executive Editor Rick Berke on a tumultuous year in health and science.
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My Husband Refuses One Part of Our Sex Life. I’m Not Sure I Can Live With It.
When I mention this to him, he changes the subject.
Kathy
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Scientists Reveal How Tanning Beds Age Your Skin on a Genetic Level
"The skin of tanning bed users appeared decades older."
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Anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr circulates false assertions amid measles outbreak
Children’s Health Defense using familiar playbook to defend health secretary as it downplays dangers of disease and exaggerate risks of vaccines, public health experts sayThe non-profit group that Robert F Kennedy Jr built into a giant of the anti-vaccine movement is defending its old boss even as t…
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CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official
CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official Tracy Beth Høeg.
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The 98% mystery: Scientists just cracked the code on “junk DNA” linked to Alzheimer’s
Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150 that truly influence gene activity—many tied to known …
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Confronting a Rising Tide of Cancer Misinformation
Samyukta Mullangi, Harvard Med The man sitting across from me in clinic was only 58, but he had been smoking two packs per day since his teenage years and was exposed to potential...
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