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Asheville Area Ticks Carry Lyme Bacteria at Northeast Levels, While Local Doctors Were Trained to Call It Rare

A CDC report found that about 40 percent of Biltmore Forest blacklegged ticks carry Lyme bacteria. Here are the symptoms worth raising with a clinician.

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H-E-B Shoppers in Texas and Louisiana Should Check Refrigerators for Pico de Gallo Bought Since Early July

A supplier recall pulled H-E-B and NatureBest pico de gallo and other refrigerated items over Salmonella risk. Here is what to check at home.

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Expectant Parents Have Two Ways to Shield a Newborn from RSV Before the Season Opens in the Fall

Two RSV options can protect a newborn this season. Here is the timing, the hospitalization data, and what to ask a pediatrician now.

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Pennsylvania and Ohio Drive a Second Straight Week of About 100 New Measles Cases as School Starts

CDC added 101 measles cases, and most came from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Here is what the county-level data mean for families this week.

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Texas Egg Recall Moves to the FDA's Highest Risk Tier as the Last Best By Dates Expire

FDA raised the Midwest Poultry egg recall to Class I. Check cartons for plant codes P-1950 or 0840962 before the final best-by dates pass.

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Upper East Side Legionnaires Death Toll Reaches Nine Two Weeks After the City Declared the Outbreak Over

Two more Legionnaires deaths push the Upper East Side toll to nine, two weeks after New York City said the summer cluster had ended.

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Her Laughing Fit Made Her Lose Consciousness While Driving, Exposing a Rare Heart-Related Reflex

A 57-year-old fainted mid-laugh while driving. A heart monitor later caught the same thing happening again, confirming a rare reflex.

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A Wedding Left Her Heart Barely Pumping, and Cardiologists Want to Hear About Your Good News

A 65-year-old's chest pain began after her daughter's wedding. Her arteries were clean, and the tip of her heart had stopped squeezing.

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A Pacemaker Doctors Switched Off, and Left Inside Started Firing Again Two Years Later

A pacemaker that doctors switched off and left inside a patient's chest began pacing again two years later, competing with the newer device.

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A Teen Ate Three Burgers in a Contest and Surgeons Later Drained 3.6 Liters from His Stomach

Surgeons drained 3.6 liters from a 17-year-old's stomach after an eating contest. Air had also leaked into his chest wall and neck.

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She Cheered Too Hard at a Soccer Match and Ended Up with Air Leaking Around Her Heart

A 19-year-old's chest pain after cheering turned out to be air escaping into her chest. Her first X-ray and ECG missed it entirely.

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CDC Detects a Resistance Gene in a Massachusetts Bacterial Sample That Routine Lab Tests Would Likely Miss

CDC labs found a resistance gene rarely seen outside one bacterial genus in a Massachusetts urine sample, one standard tests can miss.

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Hepatitis C Has Been Curable for a Decade, and Prescriptions for the Cure Have Been Falling

Prescribing of hepatitis C cures peaked in 2015 and has fallen sharply since, leaving most diagnosed Americans untreated a decade later.

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Valley Fever Was the Most Common Pneumonia Cause Found in Arizona Hospital Patients Who Got Tested

In an Arizona hospital study, 10 percent of pneumonia patients tested for Valley fever were infected, and a quarter were never tested.

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Horses Have a Vaccine Against Eastern Equine Encephalitis, and People Still Do Not

Horses can be vaccinated against eastern equine encephalitis. People cannot, and roughly a third of human cases turn out to be fatal.

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Medicaid Income Caps Can Cost Disabled Workers the Home Care That Makes Their Jobs Possible

Disabled workers say Medicaid income limits force them to turn down raises because no commercial plan replaces the home care Medicaid covers.

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Air Pollution Was Linked to Blood Changes Years Before Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Analysis Finds

Researchers found blood metabolite changes associated with air pollution exposure years before lung cancer diagnosis among 1,357 study participants.

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Psychiatry Review Urges Treating Depression in Pregnancy, Finding Little Evidence of Serious Harm from SSRIs

A JAMA Psychiatry review says untreated depression in pregnancy carries real risks, and SSRIs show little evidence of serious harm.

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New York Tightens Cooling Tower Rules After a Legionnaires' Outbreak That Killed Seven

New York enacted stricter cooling tower certification rules after a Legionnaires' outbreak that killed seven people on the Upper East Side.

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Google's New Watch Feature Tracks Metabolic Trends, and the Company Says It Does Not Measure Blood Sugar

Google says its new Pixel Watch insulin resistance feature does not measure glucose and is not a diabetes prescreener. Here is what it does.

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CDC Warns Patients on Common Immune Drugs Face Higher Risk of Severe Brain Infection from Bites

CDC issued a health advisory warning that B-cell-depleting drugs increase the risk of severe brain infections from mosquito- and tick-borne viruses.

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Bacteria Shed Tiny Bubbles Once Dismissed as Waste, and They Just Painted a Target on Tumors

Engineered bacterial vesicles boosted CAR-T cells against solid tumors in mice, even killing cancer cells that lacked the target antigen.

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Four Patients Could Not Recall Any Injury, and All Four Kept Potted Plants at Home

Eight patients grew a soil bacterium on their skin. Four remembered an injury. The other four all kept numerous houseplants indoors.

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Biology Has No Flight Simulator, and Three Researchers Just Published the Blueprint for One

A Nature Medicine perspective outlines how to link AI models of DNA, proteins, and cells into a single system that could simulate drug effects.

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Thirteen of These AI-Written Viruses Carry Mutations Found in No Known Natural Genome

Sixteen AI-designed viruses worked. Thirteen carried mutations absent from every known natural sequence, and one borrowed a rival's protein.

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