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us health 5 3h ago 3 min read

Novo Nordisk Partners With Vivani on Twice-a-Year GLP-1 Implant to Fight Weight Regain

Novo Nordisk has struck a deal with biotech Vivani Medical to test a semaglutide implant meant to keep patients on GLP-1 therapy long term instead of quitting the shots. The device is years from approval, and doctors say they need real trial data before believing it solves the drug's biggest problem: people stopping.

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us health 6 3h ago 4 min read

Parasite Outbreak Sickens Nearly 3,000 Americans, and Health Officials Still Don't Know Why

A Cyclospora cayetanensis outbreak has sickened more than 2,900 people across 31 states this summer, with Michigan alone logging roughly 1,500 cases against a normal yearly average of 50. Seven years after the FDA stood up a task force to fight domestic cyclosporiasis, officials still can't say whether produce, water, or something else is behind the spike.

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in health 3 4h ago 3 min read

India Pilots Free Reading-Glasses Screenings Inside Post Offices, Reaches Over 5,000 People

A nonprofit called VisionSpring is using India's 150,000-office postal network to screen customers for vision problems and hand out free reading glasses on the spot. Since the pilot launched late last year, more than 5,000 people have been screened across five post offices in Assam State. It's a low-bureaucracy fix for a real problem, no new government program required.

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us health 5 4h ago 4 min read

Federal Heat Warnings Call Kids 'Especially at Risk.' CDC Data Say They Have the Lowest Rate.

Heat.gov, the EPA, and UNICEF all warn that children face special danger from extreme heat. But CDC data on heat deaths and hospitalizations show kids ages 5 to 14 have the lowest rate of any age group. The gap traces back to a 1980 theory that never got updated for the real world.

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us tech 7 Jun 16 1 min read Updated

The Pentagon Is Betting on AI-Native Defense Firms. Here Is What a Neoprime Actually Is.

The Defense Department is moving frontier AI into its most classified networks and pouring nearly $55 billion into autonomous warfare. Legacy contractors built the hardware that won the last century of wars, but the next one will be decided by who can integrate trusted software into constrained, classified environments at speed.

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cn health 6 4h ago 3 min read

China Evacuates Over 1.8 Million Ahead of Typhoon Bavi's Expected Wenzhou Landfall Sunday

Typhoon Bavi, China's second typhoon in a week, is set to make landfall near Wenzhou early Sunday morning after already killing 17 in Philippine landslides and lashing Japan and Taiwan. Chinese authorities evacuated more than 1.8 million people in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces as a precaution, even though the storm has weakened to Category 1 strength.

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us health 4 6h ago 3 min read

Ex-ATF Official Says Some Vape Makers Are Swapping Nicotine for Unregulated Chemical to Dodge FDA Rules on Flavored Disposables

Former ATF Deputy Director Edgar Domenech says some disposable vape makers are replacing nicotine with a synthetic compound called 6-methyl nicotine to exploit a gap in FDA authority, while keeping the same kid-friendly flavors and packaging. The claim points to a real legal gray area, but the source cited here offers no independent testing data, named companies, or government investigation confirming the scope of the problem.

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in health 4 6h ago 3 min read

15 Indian Tourists Killed as Speedboat Capsizes Off Phu Quoc, Vietnam

A speedboat carrying 32 Indian tourists and four crew overturned in rough seas near Hon May Rut Ngoai island on Saturday, killing 15 and injuring more, according to Vietnamese authorities. Twenty one people were rescued, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered condolences while the Indian embassy set up hotlines for affected families.

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cn health 6 10h ago 3 min read

Typhoon Bavi Hits Taiwan with 144 kph Winds, 36 Injured, 913 Flights Canceled, China Evacuates 600,000

Typhoon Bavi struck Taiwan on Saturday, July 11, knocking out power to more than 150,000 households, forcing 14,000 evacuations, and canceling nearly a thousand flights. The storm is now tracking toward mainland China, where authorities have moved more than 600,000 people out of its path. Japan's southern Sakishima island chain, including Ishigaki, took a direct hit earlier in the day.

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us health 4 10h ago 4 min read

Martha Lillard, Last American Iron Lung Patient, Dies at 78 in Shawnee, Oklahoma

Martha Lillard, who contracted polio on her fifth birthday in 1953 and spent most of her life dependent on an iron lung, died June 26, 2026, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She outlived every medical prediction and, by any measure, built a full life inside an extraordinary constraint.

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us health 4 11h ago 4 min read

Randolph Mantooth, 'Emergency!' Star Who Helped Build American EMS, Dies at 80

Randolph Mantooth, the actor who played firefighter-paramedic Johnny Gage on NBC's 'Emergency!' from 1972 to 1978, died Thursday, July 9, at a hospice facility in Ventura, California. His brother Donald told The Hollywood Reporter and TMZ that Mantooth had battled multiple cancers, beginning with throat cancer, for several years. He was 80.

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us health 4 12h ago 3 min read

Thai Paleontologists Identify New 150-Million-Year-Old Sauropod Species from Kalasin Province Fossils

A team led by Dr. Apirat Nilphanaphan of Mahasarakham University has named a new dinosaur species, Uragasaurus kalasinensis, from a single dorsal vertebra recovered at a site in northeastern Thailand. The animal measured up to 20 meters long and belonged to the long-necked Mamenchisauridae family, previously known almost entirely from Chinese fossils. The findings were published in the journal Nature.

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us health 5 12h ago 4 min read

Cryptosporidium Parasite Is Hitting Canada and Europe Through Contaminated Produce

A parasitic illness — Cryptosporidium — has been circulating in Canada and Europe, with 114 cases in Kingston, Ontario, still without an identified source. Separately, investigators in Denmark traced a distinct subtype to flat-leaf parsley from Italy, and Sweden documented 60 cases linked to grocery store salad bars. The pattern is the same: contaminated fresh produce moving through international supply chains, and public health agencies scrambling to find the source.

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us health 4 12h ago 3 min read

Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Says Medicare for All Would Eliminate Reimbursement-Based Racial Disparities in Care

Abdul El-Sayed, a physician running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, argued that the current two-tier insurance reimbursement system effectively prices minority patients' care lower than that of privately insured patients. He says Medicare for All would equalize those rates and remove what he calls a structural profit incentive to discriminate.

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es health 6 12h ago 4 min read

Bédar Wildfire: Belgium Joins Britain in Accounting for Missing Nationals, Evacuation Failures Under Scrutiny

Since the Bédar wildfire killed 12 people in Spain's Almería province late Thursday, the death toll has held at 12 as of Saturday, July 11, with 23 still unaccounted for. New details show seven victims died on foot after abandoning their cars, and a dry riverbed they used as an escape route became, in the words of Andalusia's emergency chief Antonio Sanz, 'a death trap.' Whether evacuation instructions reached rural expat residents in time is now a central open question.

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tr health 5 13h ago 4 min read

Jamey Carney Murder Suspect Fled Ireland to Turkey Before Her Body Was Found. Extradition Requires a Charge That Has Not Been Filed.

Ahmad Al-Saqar, 28, a Jordanian national seeking asylum in Ireland, boarded a bus to Dublin and flew to Istanbul roughly 12 hours before Carney's 13-year-old daughter found her mother's body on Tuesday afternoon. Irish police were still alerting ports and airports when he was already out of the country, and without a formal charge from Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions, extradition from Turkey or Jordan cannot proceed.

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us health 5 13h ago 3 min read

Strangulation Reports in England and Wales Up 13%, Survivor Calls for Stiffer Sentences

More than 44,000 strangulation reports were made to police in England and Wales over the past year, a 13% rise from the year before. The offence became a standalone crime four years ago. A survivor who helped push the law through now says prosecution numbers are encouraging, but sentencing needs to catch up.

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gb health 4 14h ago 3 min read

NHS Data Shows Only Half of 54-Year-Olds Return Free Bowel Cancer Tests, Despite 100+ Weekly Diagnoses Through Screening

England's NHS mails 8.7 million free bowel cancer testing kits every year, but barely half of people in their mid-50s are bothering to return them. That gap matters: the program catches at least 100 cancers per week, and the ones caught early often require no chemotherapy at all. This is a straightforward public health failure with a straightforward fix.

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es health 7 14h ago 4 min read

Bédar Wildfire Death Toll Holds at 12 as Spain Reports Cooler Conditions, 23 Still Missing

Since the Bédar wildfire tore through Almería province on Thursday, July 10, Spain has confirmed 12 dead and 23 still unaccounted for, with autopsies complete on all recovered bodies. Weather conditions over the Almería region improved on July 11, with Spain's national weather agency AEMET forecasting moderate winds and cooler air. The central unresolved question is whether the 23 missing will be found alive or add to a death toll that already ranks among the worst in Spanish history.

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us health 6 14h ago 3 min read

Southeast Missouri Flash Floods Kill Zero but Leave One Woman Missing After Rescuers Pull Hundreds from Rooftops, Trees, and a Collapsed Campground

A 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event dumped up to 12 inches on southeast Missouri overnight, triggering more than 200 water rescues including nearly 200 campers airlifted from a youth camp by National Guard helicopters. By Friday evening, all missing Reynolds County residents had been accounted for except one woman in Crawford County whose house was swept off its foundation.

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us health 5 16h ago 3 min read

Wildfire Burns Near Llano in LA County High Desert, Evacuations Ordered

A wildfire broke out near Llano in the Antelope Valley area of Los Angeles County, roughly 25 miles southeast of Palmdale, prompting evacuations. The fire is one of several public safety incidents straining the region this week, and it arrives against a backdrop of ongoing scrutiny over how slowly LA County has deployed its $2.5 billion post-fire recovery fund.

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