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Walmart Soup Kit Recalled Over Listeria in 29 States, and Its Use-By Date Has Not Passed Yet

Kettle Cuisine recalled 3,240 Marketside Tomato Bisque Soup Kits over Listeria. The use-by date is August 22, so kits may still be in fridges.

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A Worm from Raw Fish Can Build a Lump in the Liver That Radiologists Read as Spreading Cancer

A parasite from raw seafood can form liver nodules that look like metastatic cancer on CT, and some patients reach surgery before anyone knows.

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Blue Crescents Under His Fingernails Had Been There 50 Years, and They Pointed Straight to a Bottle in His Bathroom Cabinet

Blue-gray nail beds can signal argyria from colloidal silver use, a permanent pigment change that sometimes shows in the nails before the skin.

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Her Fibroids Took the Blame for Months of Kidney Infections, but a Toothpick She Never Remembered Swallowing Was Boring into the Organ

A swallowed toothpick tunneled from a woman's duodenum into her kidney, causing infections that survived a hysterectomy and repeated CT scans.

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A 23-Month-Old Girl Pulled Hair from Other People and Swallowed It, Inverting a Disorder Defined by the Word "Own"

A newly published case describes a toddler with hair-pulling disorder who targeted other people's hair rather than her own, then ate it.

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A Fruit Pit Got Stuck in a Man's Intestine and Looked So Much Like a Gallstone Doctors Were Fooled

A peach pit lodged in a man's small bowel read as gallstone ileus on CT. Published cases show how easily stone fruit fools scanners.

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Workers Are Keeping Their Coverage but Losing Their Network as Employers Hand Over Cash Instead of Plans

More than 20,000 U.S. employers now give workers a fixed allowance to buy individual plans, covering at least 500,000 employees, a trade group reports.

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FDA Authorizes Another Screwworm Treatment for Dogs as Officials Say Containment Is Still Holding

The FDA authorized Simparica TRIO for screwworm in dogs and puppies, the latest in a run of emergency clearances, while saying U.S. containment has held.

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Appeals Court Strikes Down Parts of the Formula That Sets What Insurers Owe for Out-of-Network Emergency Care

The Fifth Circuit vacated parts of the No Surprises Act payment formula, ruling insurers wrongly used rates for services never performed.

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An Obesity Shot No Regulator Has Ever Approved Is Being Sold at Medical Spas Across the Country

Retatrutide is not approved anywhere in the world, yet clinics and med spas sell it. Poison center exposures rose 265 percent in early 2026.

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Glass Particles Trigger a Nationwide Recall of an Arthritis Infusion Drug Given in Clinics and Hospitals

Fresenius Kabi recalled one lot of Tyzenne, a tocilizumab infusion drug, after finding glass particles. The response falls on providers.

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Cancer Patients Now Wait About 10 Days Longer to Start Treatment Than They Did a Decade Ago

A JAMA Surgery study of more than 2.7 million patients found that wait times from cancer diagnosis to first treatment rose across all six cancers studied.

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Doctors and Patient Groups Flag Seven Deaths Reported to the FDA in Users of a New Prader-Willi Drug

Prader-Willi groups say FDA reports list seven deaths and 100-plus serious events in Vykat XR users. The reports do not establish causation.

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Nearly 50,000 U.S. Children Filled a Prescription for a Drug Never Approved to Treat Autism

A new NEJM study found 47,394 children filled leucovorin prescriptions in 2025, with dispensing up 46 percent in the week of a federal press conference.

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More Than 41,000 Baby Jumpers and Swings Recalled After Two Separate Failures in the Same Product

Taleco Gear recalled about 41,100 baby jumpers and swings over fall and strangulation hazards. CPSC logged at least 52 incident reports and 32 injuries.

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Federal Regulators Tell Families to Throw Away a Slide Playset After a Toddler Died in It

CPSC says a 17-month-old died in a Model WPX-4 slide playset. The maker refused to recall the product, so regulators told families to throw it away.

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A Rare Epilepsy-Related Death Can Be Easy to Miss, So One State Is Changing How Deaths Are Recorded

Colorado's Lincoln's Law took effect Aug. 12, requiring death certificates to name epilepsy when a death matches known or suspected SUDEP.

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Repeating a Choice Made People Rate It Higher, Even When Better Options Were Sitting Right There

Across 15 datasets and more than 700 people, simply repeating a choice made makes that option feel more valuable later in new situations.

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That Tissue Trick That Makes Your Peach Fuzz Itch Just Led to a Target for Eczema Drugs

Michigan researchers found a nerve pathway behind mechanical itch, wired to fine vellus-like hairs. Silencing it stopped the scratching in mice.

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Smoke Exposure Before Teeth Appear May Secretly Change How Strongly Tooth Enamel Forms

Rat pups exposed to secondhand smoke from day two of life grew enamel with no structural defects but a measurably altered chemistry.

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Dietary Fat Raised a Brain Protein in Male Mice but Not Females, and an Obesity Drug Then Worked Less Well

A mitochondrial protein rose in appetite neurons when male mice drank oil but not in females, and deleting it drove obesity in mice.

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Florida Has Now Confirmed Five Horse Cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, the Signal That Usually Comes Before Human Cases

Animal cases are an early warning sign of eastern equine encephalitis, a rare mosquito-borne virus that kills about a third of people who develop severe disease.

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Lidl Recalls a Wok Spice Mix Sold in Nine States and Washington After Its Own Testing Found Salmonella

Lidl recalled one lot of Vitasia Asian Style Wok Spice Mix due to Salmonella. Check your jar for Lot 155846 and a best-by date of JUN 2028.

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Federal Guidelines Told Americans to Prioritize Protein at Every Meal, and a New Review Questions That for Sedentary Adults

Federal guidelines raised the protein target in January. A review of more than 350 studies questions whether inactive adults benefit from more.

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Testing Found Undisclosed Chemicals in 98% of Personal Care and Cleaning Products, Including Items Labeled Free of Them

Researchers tested 113 personal care and cleaning products and found unlabeled chemicals in 98% of them, including phthalates in items labeled as phthalate-free.

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