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As Texas families prepare for the new school year, parents might be checking vaccination records, scheduling doctor’s appointments or weighing whether to seek an exemption. Health officials say it’s also a good time to understand which vaccines are required, where to get affordable shots and why childhood immunizations remain important as diseases such as measles…

[TOKYO] A joint US-Japanese effort to fight off speculative bets against a battered yen last week followed months of preparation by the two nations and a rare and public alignment of interests in Washington and Tokyo over exchange rates

From the 47-year-old runner who needs a double hip replacement to the 27-year-old CrossFitter with a ruptured ACL, those who push their bodies too hard often regret it. What are the lessons for the rest of us?

The federal government told software buyers this week to ask their vendors for a complete list of what is inside the products they run. Banks are among the buyers, and the researchers who study how those lists get made say a buyer cannot trust all of what comes back

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stopped recommending that all children get an annual influenza vaccine. Instead, it made the shot a matter of “shared clinical decision-making”—something for parents and a doctor to weigh case by case—citing, among other reasons, a lack of randomized controlled trials proving the vaccine’s…

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A Bossier City native is being recognized for participating in the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise

A recent nutrivigilance report from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) (Saisine n°2025-VIG-0110) details a case of life-threatening adverse health effects linked to the consumption of two sports nutrition products (a mass gainer and a pure whey)

AI Identifies Previously Unrecognized Health Insights in Routine Sleep Studies Search August 3, 2026/News Releases

When most people imagine old age, they picture slowing down, giving up the car keys, piling up medications, and trading adventures for naps. Susan Young Browne flips that story on its head. She’s 108 and still runs her own life in the same house she’s lived in for decades, driving wherever she wants, exercising every…