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Danielle Wilhour is an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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The Trump administration wants to reduce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget by $2.2 billion, ...

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Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

Martin L. Olsson is a professor of transfusion medicine at Lund University and medical director of the Nordic Reference Laboratory for Blood Group Genomics at Region Skåne in Lund, Sweden.

Social inequality and the decay of democratic institutions are linked to accelerated aging, but education seems to slow the process ...

Jill Storry is an adjunct professor at the Division of Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, Sweden, and technical director of the Immunohematology laboratories of Region Skåne, Lund.