Thousands of Chemicals Hide Behind One Word on Your Laundry Products. The U.S. Still Lets Them.

New Delhi, July 12 -- WASHINGTON - The debate over whether dryer sheets and fabric softeners can cause cancer has gone viral again this summer, with oncologists across the country weighing in on chemi... Read More

UN Women: 1 Million Women Lost Aid as USAID Cuts Hit 52 Countries in 18 Months

New Delhi, July 12 -- NEW YORK - The safe houses operating in eastern Congo's conflict zones had been absorbing women for years before the funding stopped arriving. Organizations that had built waitin... Read More

Chickenpox Surge Reaches 18,000 Cases in Gaza as Malnourished Children Cannot Fight Back

New Delhi, July 11 -- KHAN YOUNIS - In the displacement camp that now occupies the courtyard of a former school on the outskirts of Khan Younis, a doctor from a UNRWA mobile clinic documented eleven n... Read More

The Cholesterol Test Most Americans Get May Not Be the Best Guide for Statin Therapy

CHICAGO - Every year, July 6 -- their LDL, or bad-cholesterol level. That figure shapes decisions about whether to start a statin, raise a dose, or add a second medication. A study published Monday in... Read More

Coffee Cuts Liver Cancer Risk by 47% and Cirrhosis by a Third, Largest Study Finds

New Delhi, July 6 -- LOS ANGELES - For the 250 million people who pour a cup of coffee each morning, the habit has long occupied the hazy territory between pleasure and nutrition, more ritual than med... Read More

FDA-Approved Autoimmune Drugs Can Kill Small Cell Cancers, UCLA CRISPR Study Finds

New Delhi, July 6 -- LOS ANGELES - For decades, the drugs designed to fight small cell neuroendocrine cancers of the lung, prostate, and ovary have worked for a while and then stopped working. The tum... Read More

FDA Clears a Transplant Therapy Built to Cut Chronic GVHD From 44% to 13%

The therapy, July 5 -- Roughly four in ten people who receive a donor stem cell transplant for blood cancer develop a complication that can be worse than the cancer itself: their new immune system tur... Read More

A Congressman Missed 140 Votes for Depression. He Came Back With a Bill.

WASHINGTON, July 5 -- For nearly four months, Tom Kean Jr. missed 140 roll call votes and gave his constituents no explanation. On Tuesday, standing on the House floor, the New Jersey Republican gave ... Read More

70 Lakh Patients a Year Built This Hospital Chain. Wall Street Is About to Decide What That's Worth.

BENGALURU, July 5 -- Somewhere in one of Manipal's 49 hospitals right now, a patient is being wheeled into an operating theater with no idea that the value of the bed they are lying in is about to bec... Read More

India's Airlift Is Quietly Propping Up Congo's Ebola Response as Cases Pass 1,480

KAMPALA, July 5 -- The boxes stacked past the loading dock at Africa CDC's Eastern Regional Coordinating Centre in early June did not carry the insignia of Medecins Sans Frontieres or the World Health... Read More

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