In June 2018, Katie Tombs and her boyfriend Brad were packing up their flat, ready to embark on a round-the-world trip of a lifetime. Surrounded by folded clothes and open suitcases, the scale of ...

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Despite improvements in model resolution, systematic errors - known as biases - persist in the representation of average oceanic and atmospheric temperature in certain coastal regions. A study ...

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Two people have died and 79 others have been seriously injured in potential association with a safety issue involving Baxter's Novum IQ large-volume infusion pumps. FDA said it is aware that Deerfield ...

For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. By Jordan Rau ...

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Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

President Trump on Wednesday announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent. The economic fallout has ...

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