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Measles Tops 900, Ebola Passes 8,000, and Cancer Deaths Keep Falling (opens the original)
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Measles cases in Pennsylvania have passed 900, the Ebola outbreak in Congo has crossed 8,000 cases, and yet some of this week’s biggest medical news is encouraging. Dr. Terry Simpson looks at falling cancer mortality, declining alcohol use, improving teen health, semaglutide and frailty, wildfire smoke,
Does GLP-1 make your hair fall out (opens the original)
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Chocolate: From the Food of the Gods to the Candy Aisle (opens the original)
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From Fork U the podcast: This week, we're exploring chocolate, from the ancient civilizations of the Americas to the modern science of cocoa and cardiovascular health. The accompanying Fork U podcast takes you through history and medicine, while this article includes a few of my favorite ways to bring cocoa into your kitchen. Look for this episode Thursday, October 1st, wherever you get your podcasts.MesoAmerica and ChocolateIn our series looking at foods that built civilizations,today we are go
Can Ozempic, Wegovy, or Zepbound Cause Blindness? What the Science Says (opens the original)
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Fear Not the Potato. Fear the person who fears the potato (opens the original)
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On my podcast FORK U, I’ve been doing a series about foods that built civilizations. FORK U comes out on Thursdays. This episode we are talking about the potato.It is difficult to imagine that thousands of years ago people constructed large buildings, managed rivers, built monuments, and created art. We have glimpses of these civilizations through stories, archaeology, and the structures they left behind, but much of their history has been lost. Imagine, we don’t even know where Cleopatra or Ale
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