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3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (755+ words) When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the blob-like shape and "kiki" with…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (622+ words) For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U. S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to vote Thursday on…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1296+ words) Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian Mc Mahon has spent decades treating the long shadow of hepatitis B. Before a vaccine became available in the 1980s, he saw the virus claim young lives in western Alaskan…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1784+ words) For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public health officer in Mississippi, it's Edney's job to…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1028+ words) This week, President Trump urged pregnant women to "tough it out" and take Tylenol sparingly on the basis that there's a link between the active ingredient in the pain killer, acetaminophen, and autism. The president and his deputies tied autism…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1013+ words) The Trump administration's suggestion of a link between acetaminophen and autism may only serve to raise stigma about autism and make parents feel guilty that they directly caused their children's condition, according to Colin Killick, the executive director of the…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1249+ words) President Trump's suggestion that a link exists between autism and acetaminophen " the active ingredient in Tylenol " has raised concerns within the scientific community. Trump, along with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Mehmet…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (923+ words) Don't take Tylenol if you're pregnant, and don't give Tylenol to your child," Trump said in a White House briefing, emphatically repeating this warning more than a dozen times. Fight like hell not to take it." The president and his…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (490+ words) Health officials around the globe are rejecting President Trump's assertion that pregnant women should avoid taking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, during pregnancy because of unfounded links to autism. "Available evidence has found no link between the use of…...