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A bad back led Dr. Dale Block to retire from family medicine in 2019 after nearly four decades of treating patients.
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A new national study provides the first comprehensive look at prenatal care services offered by federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), revealing that while these safety-net providers play a critical role in caring for ...
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Men and women are not born with the same risk of heart disease, and for decades scientists have struggled to explain why. A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in Genes & Development, ...
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Why does the immune system become less effective as we age? A new USC study published in BMC Biology offers fresh insights by examining a key immune cell type across tissues: macrophages.
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