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‘Vagina Obscura’ shows how little is known about female biology

More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates, the Greek physician often considered the father of modern medicine, identified what came to be known as the clitoris,…

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Genetically engineered immune cells have kept two people cancer-free for a decade

In 2010, two blood cancer patients received an experimental immunotherapy, and their cancers went into remission. Ten years later, the cancer-fighting immune cells used in the…

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Why only some people will get COVID-19 booster shots at first

In the United States, booster shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine won’t be widely available to the general public starting this week. Instead, only certain groups will…

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How coronavirus vaccines still help people who already had COVID-19

Some people who have been infected with coronavirus have questioned whether they really need vaccines. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people…

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