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TIRANA, Albania — As you drive from the Tirana International Airport toward the heart of the Albanian capital, car dealerships and shopping center-lined freeways give way to tidy rows of Communist-era housing blocks, their concrete walls splashed in Funfetti-hued dazzle camo — reminders of the country’s darker periods hiding beneath a cheerful riot of cheap…

Over the last eight months, STAT has investigated the ways MRT is marketed as a fertility treatment for older women, despite scant evidence it works.

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A person in Washington state has died from complications of the bird flu, the first such U.S. death in a year

Every month nearly two billion people around the world menstruate, with about six tablespoons of menstrual blood leaving each person’s body over the course of three to seven days. And we throw it all away. What a growing number of researchers believe is that those discarded tampons and pads contain precious information. Menstrual blood—or effluent,…

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The reminders to vote in Tuesday’s midterms are ubiquitous. Some health scholars have another reminder: that elections, especially divisive ones, can stress the heart. 

Rethinking anti-aging: From cosmetic fixes to cellular health by Derya Taşbaşı Oct 29, 2026 11:40 am

On Wednesday night in Clive, Iowa, a parade of Make America Healthy Again activists and Republican candidates decried Big Agriculture, stressed the rise in chronic disease in America, and called for the Covid-19 vaccine to be removed from the market. 

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