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Exercising before or after a flu vaccine may make it work better

People who are usually physically active had increased antibody levels if they exercised around the time they received their flu shot

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How big a covid-19 wave could omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 cause?

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Origin of Black Death finally found in bacteria from Kyrgyzstan graves

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Appetite-suppressing molecule helps obese mice lose weight

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Severe covid-19 symptoms linked to more than 1300 genetic variants

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More than 1 in 7 people worldwide have had Lyme disease

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Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction

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One epigenome-editing injection could cut cholesterol level for years

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Brains can be hotter than the rest of our bodies, especially in women

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Genetic errors cause most miscarriages, confirms largest study yet

After analysing the tissue of nearly 25,000 miscarriages, researchers found more than half were caused by randomly occurring chromosomal abnormalities, with many of the remaining losses probably being due to undetectable genetic errors

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Experimental umbilical cord stem cell therapy treats rare disease

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Covid-19 in pregnancy linked to delays in babies reaching milestones

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Black people less likely than white to get Parkinson’s surgery in US

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Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

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