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Endometriosis affects an estimated 10 percent of women of reproductive age worldwide, causing chronic pelvic pain, inflammation and infertility, yet ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, where the thin atmosphere lets ultraviolet radiation slam into the skin with unusual force, a ...

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For decades, doctors have judged blood pressure risk by a single, deceptively simple number: the average. But a sweeping new ...

A quiet revolution is unfolding at the scale of a human hair. In work highlighted in a News and Views ...

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