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Taking anti-inflammatory drugs after surgery is fairly standard protocol. But a new study from researchers at Michigan State ...

With multiple measles cases reported in North Carolina, rising flu deaths and shifting federal recommendations, state health ...

In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California's Placer County provided limited ...

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, ...

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Cambridge researchers have discovered that an existing therapy which boosts protective immune cells in people who recently ...

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Novel research led by Brazilian scientists describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to ...