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Earth's inner core isn't just slowing, it's also shape-shifting, study finds

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth’s enigmatic inner core, revealing for the first time that this 1,500-mile-wide ball of iron and nickel is changing. The planet’s inner core was previously thought of as a hard, solid sphere. But a new study has found that its edges are softer […]

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California joins legal fight to stop NIH cuts that could be a blow to UC, CSU, other universities

California joined 21 Democratic-run states Monday in a lawsuit to stop cuts to billions of dollars in NIH funding that supports medical research, alleging the action will hurt Americans who benefit from life-saving medical discoveries into cancer, diabetes and other major diseases. The suit, filed in federal district court in Massachusetts, asks a judge to

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A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along

The best and the worst thing about vaccination, pediatrician Dr. Adam Ratner says, is that it “makes nothing happen.” A child successfully inoculated against a vaccine-preventable disease — the measles, let’s say, to name the most infectious of them all — doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital.

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A pivotal senator says he extracted vaccine concessions from RFK Jr. Was he played?

In the days leading up to a pivotal vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to become America’s top heath official, all eyes were focused on Sen. Bill Cassidy. And the pivotal issue for the Louisiana Republican was Kennedy’s skepticism toward vaccines. Cassidy chairs the Senate committee that oversees the Department of Health and Human

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NIH cuts put medical research at risk, scientists say, raising concerns at UC and elsewhere

Each year, the National Institutes of Health gives billions of dollars to the University of California to pay for research into cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases it has been at the forefront of studying for decades. But a drastic cut to NIH funding under the Trump administration set to take place

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During fires, L.A. burn centers braced for crisis that never came

When the fires erupted Jan. 7, burn centers across the Los Angeles region braced for an influx of patients, updating one another on the beds and staff available for critically injured people. The Eaton and Palisades fires would ultimately claim at least 29 lives. Dozens of people would visit hospitals to seek care for minor

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San Mateo County cat diagnosed with bird flu as CDC deletes evidence on possible feline-human transmission

San Mateo County public health officials announced Thursday that they’d discovered a pet cat in Half Moon Bay infected with H5N1 bird flu. That comes just two days after they reported finding the virus in a backyard poultry flock in Redwood City. The reports came on the heels of a momentary Centers for Disease Control

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Senate panel vote clears the way for Kennedy to become health secretary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the sprawling federal bureaucracy responsible for the healthcare of millions of Americans, received the backing of a key Senate committee on Tuesday despite his history of denying the science supporting vaccinations and support of disproved medical conspiracy theories. GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana physician who

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As global plastic production grows, so does the concentration of microplastics in our brains

Finding microplastics in human body parts is not new: Scientists have uncovered the minuscule waste products in human blood, lungs, brains, hearts and testicles. But a new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, shows a lockstep relationship between the amount of plastic found in tissues harvested from human cadavers and the amount being

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