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Gorham's Disease: We Regret To Inform You That Sometimes Your Bones Can Just "Vanish"An X-ray of a skull affected by Gorham's disease. Bone is missing at the back of the cranium.Gorham's Disease: We Regret To Inform You That Sometimes Your Bones Can Just "Vanish"An X-ray of a skull affected by Gorham's disease. Bone is missing at the back of the cranium.
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Gorham's Disease: We Regret To Inform You That Sometimes Your Bones Can Just "Vanish"

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Have Scientists Hit On Yet Another Use For GLP-1s? Drugs Like Ozempic Could Benefit Male Fertility

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HPV Vaccine Reduces Risk Of Women Dying From Cervical Cancer Before 30 To Effectively Zero

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Ever Noticed How The Caffeine From Tea Hits Differently To Coffee? Turns Out, There’s A Reason For That

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GLP-1 Medications Such As Ozempic And Wegovy May Have A Secret Effect On Violent BehaviorA photo showing a male police officer handcuffing a male suspect from behind. The suspect is wearing a stone grey hoodie. The shot is framed so that neither person's head is visible and it has been taken at night or in the dark.

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GLP-1 Medications Such As Ozempic And Wegovy May Have A Secret Effect On Violent BehaviorA photo showing a male police officer handcuffing a male suspect from behind. The suspect is wearing a stone grey hoodie. The shot is framed so that neither person's head is visible and it has been taken at night or in the dark.
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Since 1986, Over 600 Nuns Have Taken Part In A Huge Study Of Brain Aging. This Is What They’ve Taught UsA photo showing a nun praying. She is framed on profile, facing the right. She is set against a light background with a slight glow of light around her head. An anatomical drawing of a brain has been superimposed on her head.
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Since 1986, Over 600 Nuns Have Taken Part In A Huge Study Of Brain Aging. This Is What They’ve Taught Us

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World First Trial To "Reprogram" Broken Cells In Glaucoma Begins In Humans – But Is It Just Hype?A high resolution scan of a mouse retina, imaged with bright colors to show the different cell types.

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World First Trial To "Reprogram" Broken Cells In Glaucoma Begins In Humans – But Is It Just Hype?A high resolution scan of a mouse retina, imaged with bright colors to show the different cell types.
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World First Trial To "Reprogram" Broken Cells In Glaucoma Begins In Humans – But Is It Just Hype?

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Rucking Is A Simple Walking Trend That Could Boost Your HealthA photo looking up at a man leaping across two rocks in the mountains. The man is wearing hiking gear, including a large rucksack and is carrying two poles. He has a red jacket on. In the background a mountain is visible with patches of snow on it.

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Rucking Is A Simple Walking Trend That Could Boost Your HealthA photo looking up at a man leaping across two rocks in the mountains. The man is wearing hiking gear, including a large rucksack and is carrying two poles. He has a red jacket on. In the background a mountain is visible with patches of snow on it.
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Rucking Is A Simple Walking Trend That Could Boost Your Health

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Rare Type Of Lyme Disease Spreads To New US State As First Case Reported In New YorkThis image shows how the design of the mouth makes ticks generally difficult to remove once they've attached for a blood meal.

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From Heatwaves To Extreme Storms, The World's Blood Stocks Are Under Threat From Climate ChangeQUEENS, NY - NOVEMBER 11: Damaged houses without power at night in the Rockaway due to impact from Hurricane Sandy in Queens, New York, U.S., on November 11, 2012.
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New Blood Test Could Identify Stage Of Alzheimer’s Disease Just As Accurately As Expensive ScansMicrotubules (magenta) and tau protein (light blue) in a cell model of tauopathy. Researchers believe that tauopathy—the aggregation of tau protein—plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. This image was captured using Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM).

New Blood Test Could Identify Stage Of Alzheimer’s Disease Just As Accurately As Expensive Scans

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Macrophage Vs. Melanoma: Watch An Epic Immune Battle Play Out In First-Of-Its-Kind Footagemicroscopic view of a melanoma tumour growing in the skin – this one in a mouse model. CD169+ macrophages are shown in green and yellow forming a biological boundary wall.

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First-Of-Its-Kind “Deep Profiling” Reveals That Where You Live May Impact How Quickly You Agefigures representing the same person at different ages, overlaid on a simple world map

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A Rare Condition Makes You Think You Recognize Everyone You See – Scientists Investigated, With A Little Help From "Game of Thrones"Hyperfamiliarity for faces

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