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Participants light candles ahead of the sixth annual Bridge Of Life Suicide Awareness/Prevention candlelight vigil organised by YEG Mental Health, a group dedicated to raising awareness about mental health issues in the greater Edmonton area. On Friday, September 10, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Firearm suicides are rising in the US despite declining globally

In the past three decades, suicides involving guns have steadily dropped around the world. While down overall in the US since 1990, they began to climb in 2006 – coinciding with increased access to firearms

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Plague never went away – now it could re-emerge in drug-resistant form

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How many people died due to the Black Death in Europe?

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Smallpox drug helped treat monkeypox in one UK patient in 2021

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Monkeypox virus particles taken from a human skin sample, captured via a coloured transmission electron micrograph

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Monkeypox cases are continuing to rise around the world

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Legalised cannabis in Canada and US hasn’t killed illegal market

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Living with a dog during childhood may reduce risk of Crohn’s disease

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First monkeypox genome from latest outbreak shows links to 2018 strain

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Climate change means people are losing 44 hours of sleep per year

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by CJ GUNTHER/EPFive year old Brittany Siguenza watches as her mother receives a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccine clinic for teachers and school administrators at the Rumney March Academy, in Revere, Massachusetts, USA

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Why is it taking so long to get covid vaccines for children under 5?

Few countries currently have covid vaccines available for very young children. With US approvals likely in the next month, here is what you need to know about the vaccines – including why they are still important for kids already exposed to covid

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Could monkeypox become a pandemic? Here's everything you need to know

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Covid-19 vaccines may ward off long covid even if given post-infection

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Tracking sleep disruptions could improve nerve pain treatments

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Radiotherapy masks to hellebore root: see the ways we confront cancer

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