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Vegetarian Diet Could Help Fight Off Disease: Study
Venturing Out? Guard Yourself Against Disease-Carrying Ticks
Walking or Biking to Work Might Save Your Life
Want a Healthier Neighborhood? Plant a Tree
Want Less Violent Prisons? Plant More Trees
Warming Climate Could Bring Flesh-Eating Bacteria to More U.S. Waters
Weak Action on Climate Change Is Stressing Young People Worldwide
Weekly Injected Drug Could Boost Outcomes for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Weight Loss Surgery More Dangerous for Men Than Women: Study
Weight-Loss Surgery May Greatly Lower Odds for Many Cancers
Well Water Germ Tests May Depend on Time of Year
West Coast Wildfires, COVID a Double Whammy to Lung Health
Western Wildfires Are Making Easterners Sick: U.S. Study
Western Wildfires Fueling Air Pollution During Summer Months
What Behaviors Will Shorten Your Life?
What Exactly Is Hospice Care?
What Happens to Your Kidneys as You Age?
What Is More Deadly in the U.S.: Hot Weather or Cold?
What's Killing Detainees at U.S. ICE Facilities?
When Cancer Strikes, Who's at Higher Risk for Suicide?
When Coal-Fired Power Plants Close, Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier
When Heart Attack Strikes, Cancer Patients Often Miss Out on Lifesaving Treatment
When Kidney Transplant Fails, Trying Again Is Best Option: Study
Which Seafood Has the Highest Amount of Microplastics?
WHO Says Pandemic Death Total Far Higher Than Reported in Many Countries
Why Logging May Be the Most Dangerous Profession
Why Losing Someone to Violence Can Be Especially Tough to Get Over
Why Sleep Raises Risk for Sudden Death in People With Epilepsy
Wife of California Congressman Died After Using Herbal Remedy for Diabetes, Weight Loss
Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk
Wildfire Smoke Can Trigger Eczema, Study Finds
Wildfire Smoke Causes Rapid Damage to Your Health: Study
Wildfire Survivors Could Face Higher Cancer Risk
Wildfires Are Changing the Seasonal Air Quality of the U.S. West
Wildfires Cause More Than 33,000 Deaths Globally Each Year
Wildfires Plus Heat Make Breathing Dangerous in America's West
Wildlife Crossings Over Highways Save Human Lives, Too
Will COVID Pandemic's Environmental Benefit Last?
Will Warmer Temps Help Contain Coronavirus? Two Studies Say Not Really
Windy Days Are Safer Days When It Comes to COVID-19
Winter Brings Rise in Carbon Monoxide Danger: Stay Safe
With COVID Crisis Ebbing, How Can We Prevent Future Pandemics?
With Hurricane Season Here, Watch Out for One Carbon Monoxide Danger
Women at Higher Risk When Heart Attack Strikes the Young
Women Get Worse Care for Heart Attack
Women More Prone to Nighttime Cardiac Arrest Than Men
Women's Menstrual Cycles Tied to Moon's Phases
Workers in U.S. Southwest in Peril as Summer Temperatures Rise
Working From Home Brings Its Own Health Perils: Survey
Workouts Boost Health of People With Kidney Disease
Worried About Catching Coronavirus From Surfaces? The City You Live in May Matter
You Could Live 9 Years Longer in Hawaii Than in Mississippi, New Data Shows
You Don't Have to Smoke to Get Lung Cancer
Younger Age Doesn't Boost Survival With Advanced Colon Cancer
Your Plant-Based Diet Could Really Help the Planet
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