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A silent disease transmitted by rats continues to kill within days, but a new oral drug could change its fatal outcome.

National and Kansas healthcare officials are warning people to watch out for possible signs of a flesh-eating parasite.

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A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...