United States Health News API

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            "title": "Do Multivitamins Actually Make a Difference? What a Pharmacist Says",
            "description": "Multivitamins can support normal growth and function in the body, but not everyone needs to take them daily to support overall health.",
            "content": "Medically reviewed by Kristie Reed, PharmD\nOverall, the evidence for the benefits of taking multivitamins is mixed. It's generally advised to get the nutrients you need from food sources.\nTaking multivitamins will not reduce the risk of heart disease... [6802 chars]",
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            "title": "Distinct genetic architecture in the tails of complex traits",
            "description": "Complex traits are highly polygenic, with heritability explained by many hundreds of common variants of small effect together with rare variants of large effect1. Yet how this genetic architecture varies along the trait continuum has been underexplored, as has the role of natural selection in shaping this variation. Here we developed an approach based on polygenic risk scores that reveals widespread departures from common-variant architecture in one or both of the tails of 74 quantitative traits. These observations were replicated across ancestries, cohorts and repeated measures and using an alternative family-based approach2. Incorporating rare variants identified from sequence data resulted in marked reductions in these deviations, suggesting that rare alleles of large effect are key drivers of trait-tail architecture. Forward simulations showed that stabilizing selection could generate the observed patterns, whereas modelling reproductive success provided empirical support for the role of selection. These findings show that although complex traits are polygenic in the population at large, they have a distinct and less polygenic architecture in their tails due to selection. This has implications for rare-variant discovery and complex trait and disease prediction. Genome-wide analyses in multiancestry and European cohorts show that in complex traits, rare alleles have disproportionately large effects at the tails of the phenotypic spectrum compared with common alleles.",
            "content": "Data processing\nUKB genotype data\nThe UKB is a prospective cohort study of approximately 500,000 participants recruited across the United Kingdom from 2006 to 2010 (ref. 18). Phenotype data of anthropometric, biological and lifestyle measures were co... [37631 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10516-5?error=cookies_not_supported&code=d8d36232-1116-4237-88e1-b70ed8dfe27d",
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            "title": "In Utah, Measles Sickens Babies and Others Who Can’t Be Vaccinated",
            "description": "Many of those who can’t be vaccinated, including pregnant women and immunocompromised people, are also at high risk of serious complications.",
            "content": "A measles outbreak in Utah has sickened more than 670 people, including many children whose parents have chosen not to vaccinate them. But new data shows that people who can’t be vaccinated for various health reasons are also falling ill.\nSince the o... [1952 chars]",
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