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• Monkey Trials Offer New Hope for HIV Vaccine

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• Music Helps Heal a Damaged Heart

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• New Drug Could Extend Life for People With ALS

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• New Drug May Beat Older One at Preventing MS Relapse

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• New Hope Against Diseases Marked by Progressive Scarring of Lung Tissue

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• New U.S. Coronavirus Cases Hit Another High

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• New Weapon in Fight Against Multidrug-Resistant TB

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• No Link Seen Between COVID, Guillain-Barré Syndrome

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• Nurse Practitioners Key to Opioid Treatment in Rural U.S.: Study

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• Older Adults Turning to Pot for Common Health Problems

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• Older Gays, Lesbians at Higher Odds for Drug, Alcohol Abuse: Study

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• Older Patients at Risk When Dentists Prescribe Opioids

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• On Some Farms, Washing Machines Give Leafy Greens a Spin -- But Is That Safe?

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• One-Time Treatment Eases Parkinson's -- in Mice

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• Only 1 in 5 Have Fast Access to State-of-the-Art Stroke Care

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• Opioid Addiction Med Under-Used in Younger People, Study Finds

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• Opioid Deaths in Young Americans Often Involve Other Drugs

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• Opioid OD Deaths Fall Despite Growing Use of Synthetic Drugs: CDC

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• Opioid Withdrawal Raises Health Risks for Injection Drug Users: Study

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• Pain Is a Growing Threat to the Nation's Surgeons, New Research Reveals

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• Pandemic Is Driving U.S. Surge in Cardiac Arrests Tied to Overdose

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• Pangolins Hold Clues to How COVID-19 Began -- and Might End

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• Parkinson's Patient Improving After First-Ever Stem Cell Therapy

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• Permanent Nerve Damage for Some COVID-19 Survivors

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• Post-Stroke Rehab at Home May Work Best

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• Probiotic Might Help Ease Children's Eczema

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• Prostate Cancer Drug Could Be 'Game Changing,' Researchers Say

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• Radiation Treatment Is Hard on the Heart

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• Reduced Drinking May Improve Veterans' Chronic Pain

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• Remdesivir Will Not Be Enough to Curb COVID-19, Study Finds

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• Researchers Latch Onto the Leech's Genome

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• Researchers Move Toward Once-Yearly Treatment for HIV

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• Sickle Cell Puts Black Patients at Higher Risk for Severe COVID

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• Signs America's Opioid Epidemic Might Finally Be Waning

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• Women Less Likely to Survive Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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• Workers With Cluster Headaches Take Twice as Many Sick Days

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