No-one should have to live through Ukraine horrors – UNDP
Resilience among ordinary Ukrainians is remarkable but if the war goes on much longer, it…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine, local solutions to the global food crisis
Seven weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the global food and energy crisis that’s…
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Drug reduced frequency of breathing pauses in sleep apnea
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Market Report 2022 By Segmentations, Key Company Profiles, Types, Applications & Regional Forecasts to 2030 – Political Beef – Political Beef
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ACUPUNCTURE AND HERBS: A RECIPE TO HELP GERIATRIC PETS AND THOSE WITH CANCER – Yahoo Finance
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Alternative Treatment Options for TRD – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
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U.S., U.K. investigating unusual cases of hepatitis in young children
Public health officials in the United States and the United Kingdom are investigating a number…
STAT+: Bristol Myers agrees to settle lawsuit alleging anti-competitive deals involving HIV drugs
After three years of squabbling, Bristol Myers Squibb has agreed to pay up to $11…
Light amplification accelerates chemical reactions in aerosols
Aerosols in the atmosphere react to incident sunlight. This light is amplified in the interior…
New research sheds fresh light on the ‘presenteeism’
Employees who are unwell only engage in ‘presenteeism’ — continuing to work when experiencing ill-health…
Declining nitrogen availability found in our nitrogen-rich world
Following years of attention to surplus nitrogen in the environment, our evolving understanding has led…
Structures considered key to gene expression are surprisingly fleeting
Scientists find that loops in the genome may be much rarer and shorter-lived than previously…
Key signaling pathway in immune cells could be new Alzheimer’s target
Inhibiting an important signaling pathway in brain-resident immune cells may calm brain inflammation and thereby…
Health tech companies strike deals to grow virtual diabetes care, telepsychiatry
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Listen: Leana Wen on the pandemic’s new normal and whether Twitter is real life
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The next battle in the never-ending war over Aduhelm
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STAT+: Omicron’s speedy retreat helped bolster UnitedHealth Group’s bottom line
The relative brevity of the Omicron surge helped the bottom line at UnitedHealth Group. UnitedHealth’s…
Africa experiencing longest-running decline in COVID-19 infections
COVID-19 cases in Africa have fallen for the past 16 weeks, and deaths have dropped…
Racial and ethnic disparities in telemedicine usage persist during pandemic
A new study finds racial and ethnic disparities in the use of telemedicine and access…
A novel computing approach to recognizing chaos
A new paper proposes using the single nonlinear node delay-based reservoir computer to identify chaotic…
Pandemic adversely impacts already stressed national forests, research finds
Researchers found a dramatic increase during the pandemic of visitors to the parks and protected…
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Your mental health may impact your chances of breakthrough COVID
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A rabid anteater was moved from one zoo to another, leading to rabies treatment for 13 people
The transport of an anteater from one zoo to another may have exposed more than…
The link between transit use and early COVID cases
A new study looks at the association between America’s mass transportation usage and case counts…
COVID-19: Vaccination greatly reduces infectious viral load, study finds
By comparing the infectious viral load caused by ancestral SARS-CoV-2 as well as by the…
STAT+: Editas Medicine names new CEO — its fourth — as delays, poor data hamper its gene-editing treatments
Editas Medicine announced the hiring of a new CEO on Thursday — the fourth top…
Pollution from cooking emissions hangs in the air
Organic aerosols — such as those released in cooking — may stay in the atmosphere…
How mechanical stimuli trigger cellular signalling
Breathing, seeing, hearing — the family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is involved in a…
HIV: The antibodies of ‘post-treatment controllers’
A very small percentage of people with HIV-1, known as ‘post-treatment controllers’ (PTCs), are able…
Colon cancer: How mutation of the APC gene disrupts lymphocyte migration
In patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, a genetic disease predisposing to colon cancer, mutations of…
Chemical synthesis: Golden wedding for molecules
Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules…
Study helps explain how xanthan gum, a common food additive, is processed in the gut
A new study examines the ability of the human gut microbiome to digest xanthan gum,…
Lies that ‘might’ eventually come true seem less unethical
People may be willing to condone statements they know to be false and even spread…
Graphene-hBN breakthrough to spur new LEDs, quantum computing
In a discovery that could speed research into next-generation electronics and LED devices, a research…
Researchers create miniature wide-angle camera with flat metalenses
Researchers have designed a new, ultrathin camera that acquires wide-angle, high-quality images using a metalens…
Food insecurity doubled likelihood of foregoing or delaying medical care during first year of COVID-19 pandemic in U.S.
Individuals with food insecurity were also two to three times more likely to have delayed…
Clinical leadership is a difficult balancing act
Kar writes about the challenges of NHS leadership.1 It takes a very special person to…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Justice Department probes Bausch over marketing; Pfizer to seek Covid booster for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds
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Scientists search for cause of hepatitis cases in children
A race is on to find the cause of 74 unusual cases of hepatitis among…
Pfizer to seek Covid booster for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds
Pfizer said Thursday it wants to expand its Covid-19 booster shots to healthy elementary-age kids….
Covid-19: Health leaders accuse government of ignoring crisis in NHS
The BMA has accused the UK government of “burying its head in the sand” over…
Cannabis: How It Affects Our Cognition And Psychology — New Research
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The health community must resist the UK’s expansion of oil and gas
When it comes to the health impacts of the climate crisis, every degree matters. This…
Measuring what counts to improve quality of care
In the US in 1961, Robert McNamara joined the Kennedy administration as secretary of defence,…
Why the world has no universal biosafety standards
In late November 2021, after weeks of no confirmed community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Taiwan’s Central…
STDs Spiked During First Year Of The Pandemic: Which State Had The Most Infections?
The number of reported STD infections were high during the first year of the COVID…
US Life Expectancy Fell By 2 Years In 2020, Sharpest Drop Among High-Income Peers
Life expectancy in the United States fell by nearly two years in 2020 to about…
Johnson’s bigger crime is failing to take the nation’s health seriously enough
The ideal of living longer and healthier has proved to be fool’s gold. Instead, people…
Hero to scapegoat . . . and other stories
ScapegoatsAs overall satisfaction with the NHS falls to the lowest level since 1997 (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/public-satisfaction-nhs-social-care-2021), it’s…