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Bacteria That Cause Meningitis Are Spreading Again, C.D.C. Warns

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By the Numbers: A rising fatality rate.The illness is caused by infection with a bacterium called Neisseria meningitidis. Last year, 422 cases of...
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Heat Waves Are Moving Slower and Staying Longer, Study Finds

Barbara Chase -
When heat waves swept across large parts of the planet last summer, in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or weeks...
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4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks

Barbara Chase -
The recent cyberattack on the billing and payment colossus Change Healthcare revealed just how serious the vulnerabilities are throughout the U.S. health care...
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Heart Pump Is Linked to 49 Deaths, the F.D.A. Warns

Barbara Chase -
A troubled heart pump that has now been linked to 49 deaths and dozens of injuries worldwide will be allowed to remain in...
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They Can’t See the Eclipse, but This Device Will Help Them Hear It

Barbara Chase -
On Aug. 21, 2017, Kiki Smith’s teenage sons giddily prepared to watch the partial solar eclipse in Rochester, N.Y. As Ms. Smith listened...
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Vernor Vinge, Innovative Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 79

Barbara Chase -
Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and prolific science fiction author who in the 1980s wrote a novella that offered an early glimpse of what...
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¿Sueñan los pájaros?

Barbara Chase -
Hay dos grupos principales de aves vivas: los paleognatos, que no vuelan, como el avestruz y el kiwi, que han conservado ciertos rasgos...
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‘Garbage Lasagna’: Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says

Barbara Chase -
They’re vast expanses that can be as big as towns: open landfills where household waste ends up, whether it’s vegetable scraps or old...
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‘A Chance to Live’: How 2 Families Faced a Catastrophic Birth Defect

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Ashlee Wiseman, a waitress at a Sizzler in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was 10 weeks pregnant when a nurse phoned with crushing news: a...
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Health Concerns Mount for Migrant Children at Outdoor Holding Sites

Barbara Chase -
To Dr. Theresa Cheng, the scene was “apocalyptic.”She had come to Valley of the Moon, an open-air holding site in San Diego’s rural...
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