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The FDA added Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and North Carolina to the outbreak traced to iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico and recalled by Taylor Farms on July 17, bringing the confirmed outbreak to 6,358 illnesses across 15 states. It is centered in Michigan, which has recorded the only two deaths — cyclosporiasis is rarely fatal.
Ohio's health department now reports 4,013 cyclosporiasis cases across 80 counties, up from 2,576 just a week earlier, as the nationwide multistate outbreak — tied to shredded lettuce served at Taco Bell locations — pushes past 20,927 confirmed illnesses.
The first approved CRISPR therapy is now available to toddlers with sickle cell disease. It works — and it costs more than most American homes. That tension is the real story.
A new paper points to the smartphone as a provocative culprit behind the sharp decline in US fertility since 2007, though some researchers are skeptical that a single factor could drive such a long-term trend.
A study of people living in Sardinia, Italy – one of the world's so-called Blue Zones – found that personality may be just as important as diet and exercise for reaching 100.