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America's endless battle against lethal drug fentanyl
US authorities have been fighting the drug trade for half a century, but in fentanyl, they are facing the deadliest drug yet
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US authorities have been fighting the drug trade for half a century, but in fentanyl, ...
America's endless battle against lethal drug fentanyl
The Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia have booming economies and rising standards of ...
High on ease, low on nutrition: Instant noodle diet harms Asian kids
Promises for replenishment money are made at meeting in France of the Global Fund to ...
$14 billion goal in sight for fighting AIDS, TB, malaria
Products deemed 'less healthy' must now display labels grading their nutritional and ...
Singapore to become first country to ban ads for very sugary drinks
(UPDATED) 'They established the basis for our understanding of how oxygen levels affect ...
Trio win 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for work on how cells adapt to oxygen
But it may take more years of research to determine what exactly makes e-cigarettes ...
U.S. study shows chemical burns associated with e-cigarette use
E-cigarettes were initially touted as less damaging than tobacco, which causes around 8 ...
E-cigarettes: 5 things to know
The patient trains for months, harnessing his brain signals to control a ...
Paralyzed man walks again with brain-controlled exoskeleton
South Africa has the largest number of HIV-positive people in the world, says The Lancet ...
7.2 million HIV-positive in South Africa, says study
Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest are developing strategies to address ...
Malicious bots and trolls spread vaccine misinformation – now social media companies are fighting back
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