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New Mammogram Advice: What to Know

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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of experts that issues guidelines about preventive care, has recommended all women start routine breast...
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Meet the Roving Veterinarians Caring for Mexico’s Rural Horses

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LAS PALMITAS, Mexico — Pedro Parra stood by his horse’s side as the animal dropped to the ground under the weight of anesthesia....
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Theodor Diener, Who Discovered the Tiniest of Infectious Agents, Dies at 102

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Finding something infinitesimally tiny is never easy. But it’s much harder when the searcher doesn’t know what to look for.Theodor Diener, a plant...
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Stanley Deser, Whose Ideas on Gravity Help Explain the Universe, Dies at 92

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Stanley Deser, a theoretical physicist who helped illuminate the details of gravity and how it shapes the space-time fabric of the universe, died...
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Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool

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This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.Unlike...
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Price to Plug Old Wells in Gulf of Mexico? $30 Billion, Study Says.

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The NewsEver since the first offshore platforms went up off Louisiana 85 years ago, the Gulf of Mexico has been an oil and...
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Webb Telescope Finds a Star Cloaked in 3 Rings of Ruined Worlds

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Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away, is so dazzlingly bright that it blots out the faint light of other stars around it....
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New Butterflies Are Named for Sauron, ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain

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A new genus of butterfly, with dark, eye-like spots on its distinctive orange wings, has been named after Sauron, the arch-villain of J.R.R....
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Corporate Giants Buy Up Primary Care Practices at Rapid Pace

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It’s no surprise that the shortage of primary care doctors — who are critically important to the health of Americans — is getting...
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Too Many Older Men Are Still Screened for Prostate Cancer

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Even among men over 80, almost 40 percent were still getting routine P.S.A. tests. An elevated P.S.A. reading can prompt a cascade of...
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