User:    Password: 
10/1/2026

The rise and fall of America’s deadly love affair with the cigarette
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Cancer stick. Coffin nail. Cowboy killer. Those are nicknames, through the decades, for the cigarette — the once-glamorous desideratum of American society that has been tied to tens of millions of U.S. deaths.
 
Clues to Why a Breakthrough Pancreatic Cancer Drug Eventually Stops Working
New York Times
Researchers are asking why patients, like former Senator Ben Sasse, inevitably develop resistance to the drug daraxonrasib.
 

  
Pennsylvania records a fifth measles death as the nation endures its worst year since 1991
Associated Press
Pennsylvania health officials reported a fifth measles-associated death Wednesday as the U.S. endures its worst year for the disease since 1991.
 
Not all hearing loss is the same. Here’s what can help.
Washington Post
Hearing loss can show up in many different ways: the employee who keeps missing words in meetings. The couple who have a hard time hearing each other at busy restaurants. The father who can no longer hear his children whisper.