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A new study underscores the heightened importance of sleep during early brain development, finding that sleep deprivation ...

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The American Academy of Ophthalmology has more on age-related macular degeneration. People with wet AMD might one day have an ...

Recent studies have found that nearly all tins of tuna purchased in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK were ...

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