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The war in Gaza is creating a health crisis that will span decades

Physical injuries, mental health issues and malnutrition are widespread in Gaza – and major health groups have no firm plans to address the impending crisis

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1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity

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Women in the US outlive men by 6 years – the largest gap in decades

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Why the Gaza water crisis is decades in the making

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Huge rise in US overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants

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A small number of people in Florida and Texas have contracted malaria

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What we know so far about the malaria cases in Florida and Texas

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Ghana is the first country to approve highly effective malaria vaccine

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Legal marijuana in the US may be less potent than packaging claims

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Drug overdose deaths have quadrupled among older US adults

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Massive tick-killing effort fails to reduce Lyme disease cases

Killing ticks in an area reduces the number carrying the main bacterium that causes Lyme disease, but a large study found it does not lead to fewer reports of people getting sick

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We can reduce homelessness if we follow the science on what works

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2009 Margaret Williams, PhD; Claressa Lucas, PhD;Tatiana Travis, BS Under a moderately-high magnification of 6500X, this colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted a grouping of Gram-negative Legionella pneumophila bacteria. Please see PHIL 11092 through 11140 for additional SEMs of these organisms, specifically PHIL 11121 for a black and white version of this image. You?ll note that a number of these bacteria seem to display an elongated-rod morphology. L. pneumophila are known to most frequently exhibit this configuration when grown in broth, however, they can also elongate when plate-grown cells age, as it was in this case, especially when they?ve been refrigerated. The usual L. pneumophila morphology consists of stout, ?fat? bacilli, which is the case for the vast majority of the organisms depicted here. These bacteria originated on a 1 week-old culture plate (+/- 1 day), which had incubated a single colony, at 37?C upon a buffered charcoal yeast extract (BCYE) medium with no antibiotics.

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Legionnaires’ disease may be cause of mystery pneumonia in Argentina

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A common childhood illness could be behind 'tomato flu' outbreak

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Demonstrators during a rally calling for action on gun safety on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, May 26, 2022.??In the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 students and two teachers were killed, students across the country are once again planning to walk out as a form of political action against gun violence.??Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Which US laws have been shown to cut gun violence and mass shootings?

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