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Health & Food

Food and health are two sides of the same story: how bodies are sustained, shaped, and sometimes betrayed by the systems around them. What we eat is never just a choice; it is culture, economy, memory, and marketing colliding on a plate. Health carries the same weight, pulled between personal responsibility and structural forces that often remain unseen. Together they reveal the tension between nourishment and neglect, ritual and routine, resilience and fragility in everyday life.

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Hantavirus Scare Anchors Cruise Ship Off Africa

Cruise ships are usually about getting away from it all—sun, sand, and zero responsibilities. But for the 149 people currently stuck on the MV Hondius, the trip turned into something out of a disaster movie. The ship is sitting off Cape Verde right now because of a hantavirus outbreak

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Quintuple Agonist Wipes Out Mouse Obesity

Researchers purposefully made some mice obese, feeding them a high-fat diet until they developed symptoms resembling diabetes. The fix came in the form of a single peptide injection known as GLP-1–GIP–Lani. While drugs like Ozempic target two receptors, this new version hits five. It handles the usual suspects,

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Brothers Stem Cells Cure Norwegian Mans HIV

A 63-year-old in Norway, dubbed the Oslo patient, seems to have been cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant from his brother. He lived with the virus since his 2006 diagnosis, using regular medication until a cancer diagnosis in 2020 required a bone marrow procedure. Now, four years after

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FDA Speeds Up Trials with Real-Time AI

On a Tuesday morning back in April 2026, the FDA finally decided that clinical trials had been moving at a snail's pace for way too long. They rolled out a new initiative for real-time clinical trials, or RTCT, starting with some initial work from AstraZeneca and Amgen. The