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MIT’s Shot-Size Livers Upend Surgery

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built injectable "mini livers" that kept working inside mice for two months straight, raising a real...
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Weed Killer Trail Inside Colon Tumors

A weed killer sprayed across farmland and roadsides for decades just earned a new flag in colon cancer research.Quick TakeA new Nature Medicine study...
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Why An Athlete’s Strong Heart Can Still Misfire

An irregular heartbeat does not automatically end an athlete's career anymore, and Mayo Clinic's sports cardiology program is built around proving that point every...
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Harvard Warning: High Vitamin D Dangers

A vitamin pill millions of Americans swallow every morning may be working against the very nutrient they're trying to boost.Story OverviewNew research links vitamin...
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Scientists uncover drivers of recurrent arthritis after immunotherapy

Cancer patients who beat their tumor sometimes face a second fight they never expected: arthritis that comes back angrier than before.Quick TakeResearchers at MD...
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Kitchen Hack SLASHES Hormone Disruptors

A one-week swap in the kitchen cut hormone-disrupting chemicals in people's bodies by up to 60 percent, according to a new clinical trial.Quick TakeA...
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Frozen Dinners, Real Brain Trouble

Scientists scanned the brains of nearly 9,000 middle-aged adults and found something chips, frozen dinners, and soda cannot hide from: signs of silent damage...
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Fuel or Fat? What Your Body REALLY Does With Carbs

Your body treats every carb you eat as a choice: burn it now as glucose, or stash it as glycogen for later.Story SnapshotCarbohydrates break...
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The Silent Signs & Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer often grows for months, sometimes years, without causing a single symptom, which is exactly why doctors call it the silent killer.Quick TakeThe...
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Beef Sugar’s Scary Diabetes Link

A sugar most people have never heard of, found mostly in beef and lamb, is now linked to a 63% jump in type 2...

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