23 million Americans face severe weather threat on East Coast

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia until 6 p.m. ET Saturday.
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Face masks effectively limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission

‘Don’t forget the mask’ – although most people nowadays follow this advice, professionals express different opinions about the effectiveness of face masks.
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Connie Culp, 1st US partial face transplant recipient, dies

Connie Culp has died almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation.
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Ebola survivors face kidney problems and risk of premature death

People who survive Ebola virus infection face a dramatically higher risk of dying – probably from severe kidney damage – within a year of leaving hospital, according to a study of survivors of an epidemic in Guinea.


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Trans teens face higher sexual assault risk when schools restrict bathrooms

(Reuters Health) – Transgender adolescents may be less likely to be sexually assaulted when they can use school bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth, a U.S. survey suggests.


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Amid shutdown, federal workers face health struggles: ‘We are the ones that are suffering’

The government shutdown has hit much more than some workers’ wallets — it has affected their health.


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Historic face transplant gives suicide survivor a ‘second chance’

As Katie Stubblefield brushed her fingers across her face, she could feel the wound.


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Scientists uncover a new face of a famous protein, SWI2/SNF2 ATPase

A team of scientists now have a deeper understanding of a large switch/sucrose non-fermentable (SWI/SNF) protein complex that plays a pivotal role in plant and human gene expression that causes life-threatening diseases such as cancer.
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Adverts for fruit juice, cereals and yoghurt could face daytime TV ban

Adverts for fruit juice, cereals, tomato pasta sauce, some vegetable soups and yoghurt could be banned from daytime TV under plans to tackle obesity.
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Fired for being pregnant: Another kind of discrimination women face at work

In June, Whitney Tomlinson felt nauseated at work. She was pregnant at the time and was experiencing the condition commonly, and misleadingly, known as morning sickness. Hormone-induced nausea doesn’t know what time of day it is.


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