Chatbot performance was strongest in regard to questions about vaccines and cancer and weakest on stem cells, athletic performance, and nutrition.
Half of Republicans and 40% of swing district voters say they support many tenets of Make America Healthy Again but do not identify with the movement.
The findings of the online survey highlight the challenge of effectively communicating the threat of AMR to the public and explaining how unnecessary antibiotic use makes the problem worse.
Up to 16% of respiratory samples collected at 2 Boston hospitals tested positive for tuberculosis DNA.
Chlorhexidine cut umbilical cord infection rates by 29% in low- and middle-income countries.
While we were distracted by a recent success, vaccine-injury lawyer Aaron Siri submitted a petition demanding that hundreds of conditions be added to the Vaccine Injury Table.
The two vaccines, VPM1002 and Immuvac, were evaluated in a trial involving 12,717 household contacts of recently diagnosed TB patients in India.
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The $119 million contract seeks to establish a US manufacturing site for the antibiotic and assess its potential as a treatment for plague and melioidosis.
The outbreak marks the first H5N1 detection in marine mammals in California.
"It [vaccine shared decision-making directive] creates doubt if you now have to discuss it with your doctor."
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