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The South's health disparities begin with its landscape and the region's agricultural history that compounded these health disadvantages.

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Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to ...

With the initiative, families can have their baby’s full genetic code sequenced at no cost to identify potentially serious ...

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

In modern medicine, scopolamine (marketed in the UK as hyoscine hydrobromide) is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, ...

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