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After Doug Lindsay’s first day of senior year classes in 1999, the biology major collapsed at home. The symptoms were intense and untreatable. His heart would race, he felt weak and he frequently got dizzy. Lindsay could walk only about 50 feet and couldn’t stand for more than a few minutes. The former high school…
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When you consider fast food franchises like KFC, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, In and Out, Shake Shack and the rest, ethical and health conscious foods aren’t exactly what patrons have in mind. Fast food companies thriven on our weakness for fat, sugar and salt. They know what we crave, when we crave it, and how to…
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Over the last 10 years, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has invested $170 million to better understand the universe of bacteria that live within us—the so-called microbiome. In thefirst phase of the project, researchers focused on cataloguing the myriad types of microbes found throughout the body, including in the mouth, nose, gut, and reproductive…
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The US Food and Drug Administration approved a treatment last week for a genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy that causes infants’ muscles to waste away, potentially killing them before age of two. The price tag: $2.125 million for a one-time treatment. The list price immediately reignited controversy around the rising costs of drugs and how to…