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Tick Bites Cause Freak Allergy to Meat Eating

In addition to acting as vectors for diseases, ticks are now identified as the likely culprit of a new bane specific to carnivores: causing an allergic reaction to meat

Dog Paralysis Reversed With Cells From Pooch’s Nose

Fish on Prozac Are Violent And Obsessive

Prozac is seeping out of sewage treatment plants and into rivers and lakes, turning male minnows into female murderers

Reality Check: Does Oxytocin Keep Committed Men Away from Other Women?

The latest oxytocin study says the hormone makes committed men stay faithful, but some skeptics cry foul

Is Your Syndrome Named After a Nazi?

Many are probably unaware that their condition has a Nazi's name attached to it

Lyme disease is caused by bacteria carried by deer ticks.

Chronic Lyme Disease Is Probably Not a Real Thing

New bouts of Lyme disease stem from new infections, not relapses

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What Will Convince People That Genetically Modified Foods Are Okay?

In California, a loss for labeling GM foods has both sides wondering when people wil stop shouting and start thinking

Have Bedbugs Been Vanquished At Last?

Bedbugs have terrorized cities long enough, and now a human drug might stop them in their tracks

Male head louse

Lice Evolution Tracks the Invention of Clothes

The evolution of body lice shows that humans began wearing clothes between 50,000 to 200,000 years ago

A functional magnetic resonance image of a brain.

Man in a Vegetative State ‘Talks’ to His Doctors

Using "yes" or "no" questions, researchers ask a vegetative man if he is in pain

A Flourishing Microbial Community Dwells Within Your Belly Button

A team of researchers dug into 60 different people's belly buttons and found bacterial diversity and microbial mystery

Identical Twins Aren’t So Identical – Which Makes Twin Studies Harder

As twins grow and develop, each will acquire his or her own set of mutations - which could throw a wrench into twin studies

Blind Humans Can Learn To Sense Like a Rat With Whiskers

Finger-censor "whiskers" could someday help blind people sense surrounding objects like a rodent

Blind Mole Rats’ Cells Self-Destruct Before They Can Turn Cancerous

Researchers tease out the secret behind blind mole rats' resistance to cancer

The dengue virus

A Conservative Estimate For Dengue Fever Infections in India: 37 Million Each Year

Dengue fever is become more common worldwide, and India has been particularly hard hit

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What Can We Learn From the Porn Industry About HIV?

Before getting naked and having sex in front of a camera, porn stars have to go through three checks - all for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases

After Ebola is confirmed, doctors and scientists converge within days.

The Hunt for Ebola

A CDC team races to Uganda just days after an outbreak of the killer virus to try to pinpoint exactly how it is transmitted to humans

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If You Eat Too Much Silver, Your Skin Acts Like a Black-and-White Photo

A complex chemical reaction is responsible for argyria, the condition in which a person turns a deep shade of blue

Flooding in Manhattan

In Sandy’s Wake, Watch Out for Pollution

Potentially contaminated water pooled in the streets could be a health risk

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Women Can’t Do Pull Ups? Not So Fast

With enough training and determination, women can do pull-ups

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