The appendix evolved at least 32 times across 361 species, so it's 'unlikely to be a useless evolutionary accident,' research finds / LiveScience
livescience - Two researchers explore the evolutionary history of the appendix and its role in human health.
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Saturday, March 14, 2026, 11:22 am / permalink 20758 / 2 stories in 2 days
Severe COVID or Severe Flu May Raise Risk of Lung Cancer, But Vaccines Helped in Animal Tests / Discover
discovermagazine - Learn how severe respiratory illness leaves the lungs vulnerable to cancer, and how vaccines could prevent these vulnerabilities.
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Friday, March 13, 2026, 9:23 pm / permalink 20726 / 3 stories in 2 days
FDA Transparency Push Expands to Monitoring Safety of Vaccines and Other Regulated Products / MedCity
Frank Vinluan / medcitynews - The FDA said consolidating safety reporting into a single platform, the Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), will increase transparency and reduce costs. But like the legacy systems it replaces, AEMS reports are unverified so causation and frequency of…
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Thursday, March 12, 2026, 5:23 pm / permalink 20659 / 6 stories in 4 days
CMS freezes $260M in Medicaid funding to Minnesota, citing fraud concerns / Beckers
Jakob Emerson / beckershospitalreview - CMS is freezing $259.5 million in federal Medicaid funding to Minnesota, citing unsupported or potentially fraudulent claims in the state’s program. “We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Mi…
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 5:22 am / permalink 19939 / 3 stories in 16 days