There's new hope for an overlooked epidemic: Two powerful drugs are nearing the market that promise to help cure many more people of liver-attacking hepatitis C — even though most who have the simmering infection don't know it yet.
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In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people s brains to show hypertension fuels a (...)
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