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Fleas test positive for plague

Fleas collected in a popular Arizona hiking area have tested positive for plague, according to public health officials.

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The free solution to Asia's myopia epidemic

It's not just Asia. Around the world, we're becoming collectively more near-sighted. Near-sightedness, or myopia, means nearby objects appear clearly, but those farther away look blurry. The rates of myopia have doubled, even tripled, in most of East...

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Delaware boys critical after resort illness

Two Delaware boys are in a coma and their father still is unable to talk or move two weeks after they became sick -- perhaps from pesticide exposure, federal officials say -- during a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands, their lawyer said Saturday.

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Blue Bell shuts plant after listeria find

Blue Bell ice cream has temporarily shut down one of its manufacturing plants over the discovery of listeria contamination in a serving of ice cream originating from that plant.

Public health officials warned consumers Friday not to eat any Blue Bell...

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Guatemalans infected with STDs file lawsuit

Remember the Tuskegee syphilis experiment from the 1930s?

Scientists studied poor African-Americans in Alabama who'd contracted the venereal disease but didn't tell them they had the disease or do anything to cure them.

A lawsuit filed this week alleg...

Are human head transplants coming soon?

It sounds like the plot for a science fiction movie.

Someone has a horrific accident and winds up in the hospital, brain dead and on life support. Doctors approach the family about organ donation, but instead of saving as many as eight lives, the fam...

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