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picture of a Los Angeles school board member talking with high school students about cell phones

Study: Teens use cellphones for an hour a day at school

Social media apps are the main content. The effect of state laws governing phone use at school “remains to be seen,” a study author says.

Brain device implant surgery at UW Medicine

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Promising clinical advances and inspiring individuals top the website visitors' news interests in the past year.

Illustration of finger-stick testing of hepatitis C with virus shown as a inset

Costs pose hurdle for promising new hepatitis C lab test

The diagnostic lab test could help thousands be cured, but adequate insurance reimbursement is vital, researchers say.

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Drug turns lung cells into slow-release antibiotic depots

The engineered therapy delivers an antibiotic inside lung immune cells, which then leak the drug to kill nearby bacteria.

Snow flies collected in winter on a mountain slope.

Most insects slow down in bitter cold. Not snow flies.

Snow flies can continue to move even when their internal temperatures drop to minus 10 degrees Celsius.  Scientists will explore why.

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