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Smartphone breath alcohol testing devices vary widely in accuracy
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Alcohol-impaired driving kills 29 people a day and costs $121 billion a year in the U.S.…
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New Strep A human challenge model paves the way to test vaccines against the deadly bacteria
A scanning electron microscope image of Group A Streptococcus (orange) during phagocytic interaction with a human neutrophil (blue). Credit: NIAID…
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Mild Covid-19 infection not likely to cause lasting damage to structure or function of the heart
Mild Covid-19 infection is very unlikely to cause lasting damage to the structure or function of the heart, according to…
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Cyprus lifts lockdown with COVID ‘safety pass’
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cyprus on Monday will exit a third partial lockdown with a new coronavirus “safety pass” system…
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Study provides new insight on how HER2-low tumors may evolve in breast cancer patients
The finding that breast tumors can evolve to express low HER2 potentially widens the number of patients who can benefit…
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Coalition government spent just 16 cents on climate crisis out of every $100, analysis shows
The proportion of federal budget spending on environment and climate programs has fallen by nearly a third since the Coalition…
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Facing grim climate projections, state officials call for multi-dimensional approach to addressing climate change | Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Cover of the Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment 2021 (Capital-Star screen capture). Extreme weather events such as flash floods, intense heat…
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Women need to avoid pregnancy for 12 months after bariatric surgery
A study presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online, 10-13 May) supports recommendations to avoid pregnancy for…
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Bill seeks to make Louisiana ‘fossil fuel sanctuary’ in bid against Biden’s climate plans
Just south of Oil City, where Louisiana representative Danny McCormick is from, is the predominantly Black city of Shreveport. Residents…
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Minamata woman faces up to mother’s prejudice over pollution disease
When Rie Koriyama read a highly acclaimed book during her college days on Minamata disease, a mercury-poisoning ailment that ravaged…
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Vaccine deserts: Some countries have no COVID-19 jabs at all
Doctors caring with COVID-19 patients ferry medical equipment, at the Farcha provincial hospital in N’Djamena, Chad, Friday April 30, 2021.…
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Study supports recommendations to avoid pregnancy for at least 12 months after obesity surgery
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online, 10-13 May) supports recommendations…
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My work as a Black OB-GYN tempered my joy as I prepared to give birth
Expectant mothers tend to spend time fine-tuning their baby registries and decorating their nurseries. I did some of that, but…
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Vegetarians have healthier levels of disease markers than meat-eaters
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Vegetarians appear to have a healthier biomarker profile than meat-eaters, and this applies to adults of…
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Spain ends COVID state of emergency
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Spain has lifted a state of emergency in place since October to fight the pandemic, allowing…
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From yeast to hypha: How Candida albicans makes the switch: C. albicans’ ability to shift forms can help it cause dangerous infections, and a study suggests that a protein called Sir2 aids this transition
You might call Candida albicans a shape-shifter: As this fungus grows, it can multiply as single, oval-shaped cells called yeast…
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Cardiovascular disease could be diagnosed earlier with new glowing probe
Researchers have created a probe that glows when it detects an enzyme associated with issues that can lead to blood…
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Possible novel migraine therapy
By discovering a potential new cellular mechanism for migraines, researchers may have also found a new way to treat chronic…
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Youngest children in class more likely to be diagnosed with learning disability
Children born in December, in school districts with a December 31 cut-off date, are almost twice as likely to be…
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Secret behind maintaining a healthy weight loss
Half of the Danish population have overweight, while 17 percent live with obesity. Worldwide, almost 40 procent have overweight and…
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Response to COVID-19 vaccine positive in patients with IBD
(HealthDay)—Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients taking biologics achieved a positive antibody response to both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines,…
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Alzheimer’s study: A Mediterranean diet might protect against memory loss and dementia
In Alzheimer’s disease, neurons in the brain die. Largely responsible for the death of neurons are certain protein deposits in…
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Switch of breast tumors to HER2-low in recurrence may provide greater therapeutic options
This table is part of abstract 4MO_PR by Federica Miglietta. Credit: ESMO The finding that breast tumours can evolve to…
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Skin and immune cells coordinate defenses against assault
As the human body’s largest organ, the skin is responsible for protecting against a wide range of possible infections on…
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States scale back vaccine orders as interest in shots wanes
In this May 6, 2021, file photo, Kendria Brown, a nurse with DC health, vaccinates a woman with the Johnson…
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How bullying and obesity can affect girls’ and boys’ mental health
Depressive symptoms are more common in teenage girls than in their male peers. However, boys’ mental health appears to be…
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Distinct cell-to-cell communication processes controlled differently
Cells talk to each other to coordinate nutrition, waste removal, energy use, and, in some cases, disease progression. The cells…
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Merkel urges US to export COVID vaccines
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday urged the United States to export coronavirus vaccines made on…
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Breaching the blood-brain barrier to deliver precious payloads: Researchers use ultrasound to develop delivery system for potent RNA drugs
RNA-based drugs have the potential to change the standard of care for many diseases, making personalized medicine a reality. This…
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Lightfoot halts General Iron permit after pressure from Biden’s EPA chief
President Joe Biden’s top environmental official told Mayor Lori Lightfoot he has serious concerns about a controversial car-shredding operation proposed…
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Damage to white matter is linked to worse cognitive outcomes after brain injury
A new University of Iowa study challenges the idea that gray matter (the neurons that form the cerebral cortex) is…
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Brazil’s Amazon deforestation surged in April after pledges
RIO DE JANEIRO — Preliminary data released Friday signaled deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon in April was the highest for that…
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Eli Broad’s medical research legacy will ‘touch almost the whole world’
Among scientists around the world, Eli Broad’s name will forever be tied to the role the institute he founded played…
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Mild COVID-19 infection is very unlikely to cause lasting heart damage
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mild Covid-19 infection is very unlikely to cause lasting damage to the structure or function of…
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How we retrieve our knowledge about the world
To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as ‘the…
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Cheese in the Desert: Why Mega-Dairies are Piping Water onto Oregon’s Shrub-Steppe – Circle of Blue
Despite its water woes, the Lower Umatilla Basin has become a magnet for mega-dairies. Stand Up to Factory Farms—a coalition…
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Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer — Are Sugary Drinks to Blame?
High consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) in adolescence and young adulthood could partially explain the recent rapid rise in early-onset…
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Mathematical model predicting disease spread patterns
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials seized on contact tracing as the most effective way to anticipate the…
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Why Ken Meter Is on a Mission to Build Community Food Webs | Civil Eats
Your book highlights the importance of trust within food webs. You also give examples of rare networks that can survive…
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Our Readers Respond: Require Doctors Be COVID-19 Vaccinated?
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Should COVID-19 vaccinations be required for healthcare providers?…
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EU top court upholds ban on Bayer pesticides linked to harming bees
Urban beekeeper Andrew Cote replenishes bee hives at Clinton Community Garden in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City,…
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Virus deaths top 4,000 in India as WHO green-lights Chinese vaccine
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New COVID-19 deaths surged past 4,000 for the first time in India on Saturday as it…
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Thin and brittle bones strongly linked to women’s heart disease risk: Thinning lower spine, top of thigh bone and hip predictive of raised heart attack/stroke risk
Thin and brittle bones are strongly linked to women’s heart disease risk, with thinning of the lower (lumbar) spine, top…
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In fight against COVID variants some firms target T cell jabs
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Getting COVID vaccines into the arms of the world’s population is an international priority—but will today’s…
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Hospitalist Leader on Post-COVID Approach to Career Advancement
After navigating a pandemic that turned the world – including the world of hospital medicine – upside down for so…
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Torsemide Over Furosemide as First-Line Loop Diuretic for HF
Dr Anthony C. Breu When starting a new loop diuretic for a patient with heart failure, strongly consider torsemide over…
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Better way to determine safe drug doses for children: New research on organ maturation models could lead to improvements in drug development
Determining safe yet effective drug dosages for children is an ongoing challenge for pharmaceutical companies and medical doctors alike. A…
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Using hydrogen fuel risks locking in reliance on fossil fuels, researchers warn
Using hydrogen-based fuels for cars and home heating risks locking in a dependency on fossil fuels and failing to tackle…
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Thailand wants to buy more vaccines as surge worsens
In this Tuesday, May 4, 2021, file photo, a health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to…
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Researchers examine how neighborhood and social network affect binge drinking among adults
For some people, social gatherings can be a time to imbibe. And for some, that can turn into a time…
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