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Health news • May 13

Why Men and Women Hear Differently

Researchers present work on sex-dependent auditory variability, showing how hormones influence hearing loss and processing.

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Health news • May 13

A new kind of liver crisis is emerging in the U.S. The American diet is to blame

Metabolic dysfunction and alcohol-associated liver disease, or MetALD, is now a leading concern among doctors. STAT series 'Deadliest Drug' explores why.

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Health news • May 13

Nancy Cox, Who Worked to Conquer the Wily Flu, Dies at 77

Nancy J. Cox, who as the longtime leader of the influenza program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention oversaw the development of a global...

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Health news • May 13

PCOS Renamed PMOS in Landmark Shift Reflecting Metabolic and Endocrine Features

Global experts have renamed PCOS to PMOS, highlighting metabolic and endocrine risks—here's what the name change means for diagnosis and care.

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Health news • May 13

A New Genetic Entry Point for Autism Traits

A new study identifies PTCHD1-AS as a key non-coding gene that shapes social and repetitive behaviors in autism without affecting cognition.

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Health news • May 13

3 new cases of measles reported in Lancaster County

Lancaster County has three new cases of measles, the state Department of Health announced today. Additionally, the department reported a new measles case in...

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Health news • May 13

The hantavirus is a wake-up call. Will the Trump administration answer it?

Hantavirus will fade from the public eye. But the gaps this outbreak revealed in our ability to respond will remain.

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Health news • May 13

French Hantavirus Patient Is Critically Ill as Outbreak Reaches 11 Cases

A French woman with hantavirus who had traveled on the MV Hondius cruise ship was critically ill on Wednesday, officials said, as the number of identified...

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Health news • May 13

What it's like for passengers isolating in hantavirus quarantine in Nebraska

Jake Rosmarin tells the BBC what it's like inside the national quarantine unit where he and 14 other passengers are staying in Nebraska.

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Health news • May 13

Critically ill French hantavirus patient is on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11

PARIS (AP) — A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung,...

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Health news • May 13

Pritzker blasts Trump administration over hantavirus response

Gov. JB Pritzker is questioning the CDC's preparedness after a hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship led to the quarantine of American passengers.

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Health news • May 13

Highly Contagious Human Parvovirus Circulating In Northern CA: What To Know

Health officials emphasize preventative steps as the seasonal outbreak peaks across California cities.

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Health news • May 13

Opinion | 11 hantavirus deaths in Argentina were a warning

Deadly viruses will slip through, but there are ways to boost prevention.

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Health news • May 13

Hantavirus questions grow in the wake of a cruise ship outbreak

American citizens (in blue) are evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship on May 10 in Tenerife, part of Spain's Canary Islands, after an outbreak of Andes...

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Health news • May 13

Oregon doctor who helped cruise patients tests positive for hantavirus

A retired Bend doctor who helped care for passengers on a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has now tested positive.

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Health news • May 13

Is the Hantavirus in the US? Map Shows States Where Passengers Have Returned Home

A map of hantavirus in the US shows 16 states where people exposed are monitored. One former cruise ship passenger tested positive.

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Health news • May 13

PCOS Is Now PMOS: Doctors Say Name Change Will Improve Diagnosis, Care

After decades of misinformation around PCOS, global experts announced a groundbreaking name change. PCOS is now PMOS, which better reflects the multisystem...

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Health news • May 13

Hantavirus will be ‘dead end’ outbreak soon: Ex-CDC director

(NewsNation) — A former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the hantavirus outbreak will hit a dead end within several days.

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Health news • May 13

What we know about hantavirus in western Washington

SEATTLE — King County health officials are monitoring symptoms of two residents who were possibly exposed to the Andes virus, and a third resident who was a...

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Health news • May 13

MN resident possibly exposed to Hantavirus

This story has been corrected to reflect the following: The Minnesota resident was exposed to a person who was on the MV Hondius cruise ship and tested...

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