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Health and medicine (and occasional Olympics) national correspondent for @TIME. Author of The Stem Cell Hope, How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives.
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Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Linked to Cyclospora Parasite Outbreak Original

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By Alice Park Verified
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Nearly two months after cases of explosive diarrhea started mounting in several states, on July 16, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning urging people not to eat shredded lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants in five states—Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. The agency and state health officials have linked more than 1,600 cases of diarrhea to the Cyclospora parasite, which can cause gastrointestinal symptoms like explosive diarrhea.
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TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

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By Alice Park Verified, Maria Carrillo, Samantha Budd Haeberlein
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The Next Frontier in Alzheimer's Treatment? Targeting Tau Original

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By Alice Park Verified
| TIME Verified
For most of the past few decades, scientists chasing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease have focused on attacking the buildup of one protein in the brain that contributes to the disease: amyloid. They've had some success; there are currently two anti-amyloid treatments approved. But while amyloid plaques are important in Alzheimer’s disease, memory and cognitive symptoms frequently only start once another protein, tau, also starts accumulating in the brain.
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