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Some seriously ill patients improve on hospice. About 1 in 16 patients enrolled in hospice care lose eligibility as a result. Here's how to get appropriate care.

In vivo base editing of a causative mutation that leads to the neurodevelopmental disorder Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome restores protein dosage and ameliorates molecular and behavioural deficits in ...

White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”

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The quiet layoff you might not notice

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Resurgent outbreaks of infectious diseases are sickening thousands, and the causes are societal

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other institutions.

The number of people already infected during the current Ebola outbreak is startling. That's because when an outbreak is declared, the numbers normally start lower and build from there. To see the com...

Nature - A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery

Extra protein can be found in everything now, from potato chips to Pop-Tarts. Does this benefit the average eater?

A Nature analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain.

On this day in 1955 at the University of Michigan, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. announced that Dr. Salk's inactivated polio vaccine was "safe, effective and potent." The March of Dimes funded this large r...

‘Everything about this screams inhumane and unnecessary, and the cruelty is the point,’ U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said about the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in the Everglades.

This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second GLP-1 pill for weight loss. The drug, called Foundayo, resulted in an average of 27 pounds lost in 72 weeks

Information about the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum), a species found in the State of Texas

For years, ACIP has advised U.S. vaccine policy. But after changes to its membership made by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., were challenged in court, the Trump administration is apparently c...