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How a fungus is turning some cicadas into sex-crazed ‘zombies’
Washington Post· 59 minutes agoThis rare double emergence is drawing attention to a mind-bending fungus that turns some cicadas...
Multicenter clinical study supports safety of deep general anesthesia
Medical Xpress· 5 hours agoThe new study reports results of a multicenter clinical trial of more than 1,000 older patients who...
Study finds ALS patients treated by neurologists received better care
Medical Xpress· 6 hours agoAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients received better care if they were treated by a neurologist, a new study published in PLOS One has found. Patients who were treated ...
Findings from studies presented at Digestive Disease Week
Medical Xpress· 6 days ago...Digestive Disease Week, the annual meeting sponsored by the American Association for the Study of...
Presidential election could decide fate of extra Obamacare subsidies
Medical Xpress· 5 hours agoWhen Cassie Cox ended up in the emergency room in January, the Bainbridge, Georgia, resident was grateful for the Obamacare insurance policy she had recently selected for coverage in 2024. Cox ...
Drug used to treat eczema may provide relief for patients with intensely itchy skin diseases
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoA drug approved to treat eczema provided significant improvement in the symptoms of patients with severe itching diseases that currently have no targeted treatments, according to a ...
Salmonella outbreak may be linked to recalled cucumbers, CDC says
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoCucumbers contaminated with salmonella bacteria may have sickened and hospitalized dozens of people...
David L. ‘Dave’ Hollander, longtime UMBC registrar and environmental activist, dies
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 1 day agoDavid L. “Dave” Hollander, the former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, acting registrar who was active in environmental causes, died of cardiac arrest May 20 at MedStar Union Memorial ...
William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut who shot ‘Earthrise,’ dies at 90
Washington Post· 3 days agoOn Christmas Eve in 1968, the three astronauts on Apollo 8 looked back toward home as their craft...
Safety-net health clinics cut services and staff amid Medicaid 'unwinding'
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoOne of Montana's largest health clinics that serves people in poverty has cut back services and laid off workers. The retrenchment mirrors similar cuts around the country as safety-net health ...