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Publix Recalls Baby Food Pouches Over Lead Contamination Concerns

The voluntary recall was prompted after routine testing. It is the second such recall recently of baby food over possible lead contamination.

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Methotrexate Proves Its Mettle as First-Line Therapy for Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

(MedPage Today) -- For initial treatment of symptomatic pulmonary sarcoidosis, methotrexate appeared to work as well as prednisone over 24 weeks, the randomized PREDMETH trial showed.

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Over 400 with heart valve condition dying each year on NHS waiting list, research finds

Exclusive: Survey shows 8% of people in UK with aortic stenosis die because they cannot get life-saving procedure quickly enough‘She was so fit, so well’: the heart patient who died before getting

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‘She was so fit, so well’: the heart patient who died before getting vital surgery

Sue Griffin’s severe aortic stenosis progressed quickly, resulting in her death while on NHS waiting list Sue Griffin was an active 68-year-old, retraining to become a nurse and indulging her love o

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A Half-Century of Vaccination Ups and Downs

(MedPage Today) -- I am well into my ninth decade and have been a health communications consultant for a half-century.

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Junk science, vaccine refusers and the return of smallpox: what worries one of Australia’s top epidemiologists

More than five years into the Covid pandemic, Guardian Australia asks Raina MacIntyre: what’s the next big threat to public health and are we up to the challenge?Sign up for a weekly email featuring

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The private pain of prolapse: six things I wish I’d known – from sex to exercise to mental health

Pelvic organ prolapse affects around half of all women, yet it is little understood and very rarely discussed.

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Dogs, rabbits … peacocks? UK offices navigate the rise of emotional support animals

Employers are reporting more, and more varied, emotional support animals in workplacesThe only problem Kathy has encountered taking her emotional support rabbit into work is when a new colleague wante

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Dramatic dip in baby hospitalizations for RSV linked to vaccine and treatment

But older children, who had no access to the shots, had higher rates this winter compared with lastNew vaccines and treatments are linked to a dramatic decline in RSV hospitalizations for babies, acco

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Surgeons Perform First Human Bladder Transplant

The procedure could be life-changing for some people with debilitating conditions.

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