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More than 750 public health workers sent a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday, urging him to “stop spreading inaccurate health information” and guarantee employees’ safety, in the wake of a shooting at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this month.

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The letter—signed by both named and anonymous current and former staffers at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CDC, and National Institutes of Health who noted they signed the letter in their “own personal capacities”—said the attack on the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta on Aug. 8 “was not random.”

“The attack came amid growing mistrust in public institutions, driven by politicized rhetoric that has turned public health professionals from trusted experts into targets of villainization—and now, violence,” public health workers said in the letter, which was also addressed to members of Congress. “CDC is a public hea..

When your friend’s heart is broken, you might struggle to offer words of support. What can you say to help relieve the pain of feeling abandoned, rejected, wronged, or destined to a life alone?

Choose wisely: “These words, for better or worse, stay with people,” says Natalia Juarez, a relationship coach who helps people navigate breakups. The end of a relationship is a pivotal moment that can splinter your friend’s routines, identity, and future plans, and they’ll remember the way you showed up for them even when they can no longer summon the exact tint of their ex’s eyes.

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Beware of common pitfalls that might offend your friend, Juarez cautions, like glibly telling them that time heals all wounds. That kind of “toxic positivity” can “minimize their pain,” she says. And resist the temptation to tell them that the best way to get over one person is to—well, get intimately acquainted with another. “It’s insensitive,” she says, and both men and women hav..

After they took too many pills, after their mother found them unconscious on their bedroom floor, after paramedics couldn’t get them to respond, after being life-flighted to a children’s hospital and intubated, and after days in a medically induced coma, 13-year-old Taylor Little finally woke up.

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Regaining consciousness after this first suicide attempt in Nov. 2015 was “the most immense disappointment I’d ever felt,” Little recalls. “I was so upset I was still alive.”

And “the first thing I asked after I got my tube out,” Little says, “was, ‘Can I have my phone?’”

Little, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, joined Instagram when they were 11. It didn’t take long before they were introduced to self-harm videos on the platform, Little says. They spent much of the next seven years contemplating suicide, attempting it at least twice. They stabilized only after getting off social media entirely.

Now Little is among more than 1,80..

The Food and Drug Administration has warned the public not to consume certain frozen shrimp products sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.

It said the warning affects the Great Value brand of raw frozen shrimp sold at the superstore, adding that anyone who purchased the products should dispose of them.

A statement from the agency said the FDA was “actively investigating reports of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) contamination in shipping containers and frozen shrimp products” shipped from Indonesia.

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It said that the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) had detected Cs-137 in shipping containers at four U.S. ports: Los Angeles, Houston, Savannah, and Miami. Containers that tested positive for the isotope have been denied entry to the U.S.

The FDA added that although it had not confirmed the presence of contamination in any commercial product in the United States, the shrimp products appear “to have been prepare..

There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds the common but misunderstood creatures so fascinating. “That is the most successful form of life,” says Jolly, a professor of biology at Case Western University. People often assume that honor would go to insects, but “the reality is that every insect you find is parasitized by something.”

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Sometimes, humans are too. Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes malaria, are well-known. Others fly more under the radar.

We asked Jolly and other experts how parasites are transmitted, what it feels like to be infected, and what you can do to protect yourself.

How people get parasites

Parasites truly live up to their name. “They take something from the host but do not give anything back,” says Bobbi Pritt, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology and the chair of ..