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  1. Health & Medicine

    Healthy pregnancies and newborns are possible after CAR T cell therapy

    Women who received treatment for autoimmune diseases with CAR T cell therapy went on to have regular pregnancies and healthy babies.

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  2. Climate

    What’s to blame for Canada’s wildfires?

    The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the wildfires and misinformation.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Measles cases in the U.S. hit a new 34-year high

    The U.S. hasn't seen measles numbers like this since 1992. An epidemiologist explains what's driving the surge.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    An experimental oral vaccine may prevent invasive bacterial diarrhea

    Shigella causes about 450,000 U.S. infections each year. An experimental oral vaccine protected adults in a small human trial.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Inside the fight against the parasite Cyclospora

    Parasite-induced cases of explosive diarrhea are sweeping the United States. Containing the outbreak won’t be easy.

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  6. Genetics

    Genes offer new clues to stopping Huntington’s disease in its tracks

    A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its neurological consequences.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    A new sort of Alzheimer’s drug shows glimmers of promise

    Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data came with a surprise twist.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Support goes a long way to boost birth control effectiveness

    The HER Salt Lake Contraceptive Initiative’s approach, which centered the user and made refills easy, meant all types of methods worked well.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk

    A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not see great risk in using fentanyl once or twice, a study reports.

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