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Ozempic for life? Weight loss drugs are meant to be used long term. What happens if you stop taking them?

JoNel Aleccia | ABC News | 
Those who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if ...
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3D-printed coral reefs? Can this new approach to reef decline revive coastal ecosystems?

Julia Jacobo | ABC News | 
Several acres of 3D-printed artificial reefs are currently being planted in coastal North Carolina to bolster the region's biodiversity and ...
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Monkey kept alive for two years with a genetically engineered pig kidney suggests pathway to developing organs for humans

Sony Salzman | ABC News | 
Harvard-affiliated scientists say they have been able to keep a monkey alive for two years with a genetically engineered pig ...
Fact check: No, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have not been added to livestock or produce

Fact check: No, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have not been added to livestock or produce

Angelo Fichera | ABC News | 
COVID-19 vaccines are not being passed along through livestock or produce, and experts say that would not be an efficient ...
Mutant mosquito that transmits malaria year round and is resistant to local insecticides identified in Kenya

Mutant mosquito that transmits malaria year round and is resistant to local insecticides identified in Kenya

Emma Ogao | ABC News | 
Researchers from Kenya’s Medical Research Institute have detected a new species of mosquito in the East African nation that has shown ...
HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ under the microscope: Could a zombie fungus really infect humans?

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ under the microscope: Could a zombie fungus really infect humans?

John Brownstein, Youri Benadjaoud | ABC News | 
The hit HBO series "The Last Of Us" describes a post-pandemic world devastated by a mass outbreak of a "zombie ...
'We’re in the biotech era’: The push to make cattle and dairy production more sustainable

‘We’re in the biotech era’: The push to make cattle and dairy production more sustainable

Van Tieu | ABC News | 
With rising temperatures and worsening drought, scientists are dreaming up ways to ensure farming and agriculture can be better for ...
Can we learn? How Israel — a world leader in handling COVID — is ramping up to deal with monkeypox

Can we learn? How Israel — a world leader in handling COVID — is ramping up to deal with monkeypox

Allyson Horn | ABC News | 
Despite having recorded only 125 cases of the disease, Israeli health authorities have taken the unusual approach of securing 10,000 ...
Large New England Journal of Medicine study reconfirms Ivermectin does not reduce COVID hospitalizations

Large New England Journal of Medicine study reconfirms Ivermectin does not reduce COVID hospitalizations

Sony Salzman | ABC News | 
The antiparasitic drug ivermectin did not reduce the risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a large study published ...
More than half of the 600,000+ abortions in the US each year are now done with pills, not surgery

More than half of the 600,000+ abortions in the US each year are now done with pills, not surgery

Katie Kindelan | ABC News | 
For the first time, medication abortion now makes up the majority of abortions in the United States, according to data released ...
HIV treatment breakthroughs continue: 3rd person cured after undergoing umbilical cord blood transfer

HIV treatment breakthroughs continue: 3rd person cured after undergoing umbilical cord blood transfer

Sony Salzman, Tony Morrison | ABC News | 
Researchers revealed on [February 15] that an American, described as a middle-aged woman of mixed race, has likely been cured ...
Cancer might soon be detectable by a simple blood test

Cancer might soon be detectable by a simple blood test

Jacob Warner | ABC News | 
Every year, thousands of Americans undergo routine screening to catch cancer in its early stages, while it’s still treatable. But ...
Vaccine hesitancy’s roots in deeply religious and technophobic Amish community

Vaccine hesitancy’s roots in deeply religious and technophobic Amish community

John Seewer | ABC News | 
The vaccination drive is lagging far behind in many Amish communities across the U.S. following a wave of virus outbreaks ...
Rapidly-spreading COVID-19 variant currently ravaging India makes first appearance in the US — in children with no recent travel history

Rapidly-spreading COVID-19 variant currently ravaging India makes first appearance in the US — in children with no recent travel history

Jennifer Prohov | ABC News | 
Scientists [at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found] two cases of the variant first detected in India using ...
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As independent scientists’ do-it-yourself-COVID-vaccines proliferate, bioethicists counter with warnings

Sony Salzman | ABC News | 
"It's actually simpler than most recipes in home cookbooks," said Preston Estep, chief scientist and co-founder of a DIY [COVID ...
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Systemic racial disparity among lung cancer diagnoses has nearly vanished, study finds

Molly Stout | ABC News | 
Because of deeply-rooted systemic problems, Black Americans tend to experience disproportionate rates of many common illnesses. However, a recent study ...
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Gene therapy for hemophilia delayed until 2022 after FDA rejects one-time treatment, shocking doctors and scientists

U.S. regulators rejected [Biomarin’s] potentially game-changing hemophilia A gene therapy over concerns it might not really be a one-and-done lifetime ...
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Coronavirus heart threat: 10-to-30 percent of those hospitalized end up with ‘molecular damage’

Jay Bhatt, Jessica Johnson | ABC News | 
More than six months into the global pandemic, studies have shown that COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, ...
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Video: Study vindicating red meat reignites age-old debate over dietary guidelines, conflicts of interest

Erin Schumaker | ABC News | 
It's not the first time researcher Bradley Johnston has had the nutrition community up in arms over his work. Johnston, ...
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Video: Cancer patient testifies against Monsanto in Roundup weed killer trial

Lyanne Melendez | ABC News | 
It is the first time St. Louis-based Monsanto Company has had to defend one of its products, Roundup, in front ...
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Monsanto, cancer patient’s lawyers face off on first day of Roundup-glyphosate weed killer trial

Melanie Woodrow | ABC News | 
Opening statements began in federal court in San Francisco on [July 9]  in the trial for the first of thousands ...
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Second patient added to human gene-editing study, with no side effects so far

Marilynn Marchione | ABC News | 
A second patient has been treated in a historic gene editing study in California, and no major side effects or ...
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Desaparecidos: Gene bank helps identify Argentina’s stolen and missing children

Almudena Calatrava | ABC News | 
During the 1976-1983 dictatorship, Argentina's military rulers systematically stole babies born to political prisoners, most of whom were then killed ...
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Doctors turn to stem cell regeneration to treat heart defects in babies

Lauran Neergaard | ABC News | 
The 4-month-old on the operating table has a shocking birth defect, nearly half his heart too small or even missing...In ...
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Congressman for Puerto Rico urges use of GM mosquitoes to fight Zika

Gillian Mohney, Paul Blake | ABC News | 
As the number of Zika cases in Puerto Rico skyrocket into the thousands, Congressman Pedro Pierluisi, the island’s sole representative, ...

Florida community split on using GM mosquitoes against Zika

Gillian Mohney, Justine Quart | ABC News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With Zika creeping north ...
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Federal court weighs appeals of overturned GMO bans in Hawaii counties

Caleb Jones | ABC News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight over regulating ...

Smallpox virus found in NIH storage ressurrecting concerns over sample management

Sydney Lupkin | ABC News | 
Vials of the virus that causes smallpox were found in a National Institutes of Health research building that was unequipped ...
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