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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a grant to study a long-discredited link between vaccines and autism. The agency issued a notice late last week signaling that it will contract with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. for an “investigation of the association between vaccinations and autism prevalence.” According to the notice, the award will …

Reality: Serious liver or kidney problems from statins are very uncommon. Today,experts agree that statins are safe even in people with fatty liver disease or compensated cirrhosis, and they shouldn’t be withheld when heart benefits are expected. For kidneys, randomized evidence shows no clear increase in acute kidney injury with regular statin use. In fact, guidelines recommend them for most …

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you’re on the fence, you’ll be glad to know those myths aren’t true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I’ve been using Linux since …

Topline President Donald Trump on Saturday was photographed leaving for his golf course in Virginia, dispelling unfounded rumors spread on social media that Trump had died in recent days after not being seen publicly. Social media users, without evidence, pushed claims that President Donald Trump had died in recent days after not being seen publicly. AFP via Getty Images Key …

The Forbidden Door pay-per-view will feature the AEW Tag Team Titles in a three-way elimination match. While some reports suggested this match happened after some backstage resistance, that doesn’t appear to be the case at all. According to Fightful Select, it was noted that talks about adding a third team to the Hurt Syndicate story have been going on for …

Even without a new album or tour this year, Swift is still outselling almost everyone else This week, President Donald Trump once again decided to bring up Taylor Swift, still feeling slighted at her Democratic voting patterns. He made another post on Truth Social, celebrating Sydney Sweeney’s controversial “great jeans” ad for American Eagle as well as the revelation that …

You’ve got this protein thing down. You’re tracking your macros, weighing the pros and cons of coffee versus vegan powders, and timing your intake to your workouts. But there may be one part of the protein conversation you’re not considering—and it involves your skin. Your complexion consists of a vast network of proteins—what researchers call the skin proteome—and there’s one, …

A new study published in Science Advances is upending decades of scientific belief about the history of the Arctic. Contrary to the long-held theory that a massive, kilometer-thick ice shelf blanketed the Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages, new evidence suggests that the Arctic was never fully frozen. By analyzing ancient ocean mud and conducting advanced climate simulations, researchers …