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Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, researchers are using the same tactics to advance prostate cancer treatment.

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An expert review published in the Lancet in August called plastics a “grave, growing and underrecognised danger” to human and ...

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Claims that microplastics are widespread throughout the human body are now being questioned. Microplastics are real — but ...

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