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The Battlefield Medicine Revolution Was Built on Fake Wounds

A British prosthetics graduate is heading to NHS ambulance crews and the British military to build realistic trauma wounds, the artisan end of the twenty-year battlefield-medicine revolution that turned hemorrhage into a survivable injury.

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The AI Vaccine That 'Passed' Its First Trial Three Years Ago

Cambridge finished the Phase 1 trial in 2023. The press tour arrived in 2026. The paper, when you read it, said the immunogenicity was modest.

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A 16-month-old died at an Arkansas splash pad. Its chlorinator had been broken for a month.

A new global synthesis on free-living amoebae explains why a single bad month at a public splash pad is enough to kill a child, and why the CDC's existing protocol would have caught it.

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Xocova clears the FDA. What it actually prevents is the smaller story.

The FDA approved Shionogi's ensitrelvir for post-exposure COVID prevention, citing a 67% relative risk reduction. Look at what the trial actually measured and a different story comes into focus.

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America's Ebola Fortress: History Has Tested This Strategy, and It Failed

Washington has built a wall around the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. The last time America tried this, the evidence says the wall leaked, and so did the response.