News in Brief 7 March 2022
Russia reduced Genocide Convention ‘to confetti’, Ukraine tells ICJ Sudan: UN rights chief condemns ‘sharp…
Year: 2022
Communities with higher levels of racial prejudice have worse health outcomes
People who live in communities with higher levels of racial prejudice have worse health outcomes,…
Locally sourced: Pelicans prefer native fish to sportfish at Utah’s strawberry reservoir
American white pelicans who pause their migration at Strawberry Reservoir in Utah are filling their…
Florida’s decision on Covid vaccines for healthy kids adds to confusion and distrust
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Monday that the state will recommend that healthy children…
Physicists discover method for emulating nonlinear quantum electrodynamics in a laboratory setting
On the big screen, in video games and in our imaginations, lightsabers flare and catch…
Researchers create tool to help protect native fish from hybridizing with non-natives
Researchers have created a tool to assess the risk of hybridization among native and non-native…
Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans
Researchers calculate that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective…
STAT+: FDA effort to improve clinical trial diversity failed to make a difference for Black patients, study finds
Six years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched a five-year action plan to…
Ukraine invasion: Why I fear for Ukraine’s healthcare workers
For anyone who has paid attention to the Syrian conflict over the past 11 years,…
STAT+: Key Democrat moves to crack down on FDA accelerated approvals
WASHINGTON – A powerful Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would dramatically rein in…
World Trade Center responders at higher risk for blood cancer-associated mutations, study finds
Scientists determined that 9/11 first responders to the World Trade Center have increased levels of…
New maps show airplane contrails over the U.S. dropped steeply in 2020
Researchers have generated new maps of jet contrails over the United States before and during…
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New study questions explanation for last winter’s brutal U.S. cold snap
A new study challenges a commonly accepted explanation that a ‘sudden stratospheric warming’ caused the…
Traffic accidents significantly dropped during COVID-19 lockdown, study finds
Research shows that traffic accidents decreased by nearly half during the two-month period at the…
STAT+: Few public biotech companies disclose environmental, social, and governance steps
Environmental, social, and governance issues are gaining greater attention among investors, but only 30% of…
Researchers uncover how the human brain separates, stores, and retrieves memories
Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing…
How does the brain make memories?
Researchers have discovered two types of brain cells that play a key role in dividing…
Cellular rejuvenation therapy safely reverses signs of aging in mice
Age may be just a number, but it’s a number that often carries unwanted side…
Tiny worms make complex decisions, too
How does an animal make decisions? Scientists have spent decades trying to answer this question…
Safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars, power grid
A new study tackled a long-held assumption that adding some liquid electrolyte to improve performance…
Amazon rainforest is losing resilience: New evidence from satellite data analysis
The Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience, data analysis from high-resolution satellite images suggests. This…
Lensless camera captures cellular-level, 3D details in living tissue
The lensless Bio-FlatScope is a small, inexpensive camera to monitor biological activity that can’t be…
Cell division in microalgae: Mitosis revealed in detail
Cell division ensures growth or renewal and is thus vital for all organisms. However, the…
Newly discovered brain cells may be a memory filing system, study suggests
A scientist opens a laptop in front of a patient. On screen, a boy, tied…
A sieve for molecules
Scientists have long tried to use graphene, which is composed of carbon, as a kind…
Electric Truck Hydropower, a flexible solution to hydropower in mountainous regions
Researchers have developed an innovative hydropower technology based on electric trucks that could provide a…
Cameras reveal snowshoe hare density
The number of hares in a forest is a good indicator of how healthy that…
Cooler waters created super-sized Megalodon
A new study reveals that the iconic extinct Megalodon or megatooth shark grew to larger…
‘We’re all in this together’: As long Covid studies continue, researchers cast a wider net
There are almost as many questions about long Covid as there are symptoms. From the…
Pig grunts reveal their emotions
We can now decode pigs’ emotions. Using thousands of acoustic recordings gathered throughout the lives…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: White House bid for Covid drug funding hurt by transparency issue; Bluebird Bio runs short of cash
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
Higher risk of temperature-related death if global warming exceeds 2°C
The death rate linked to extreme temperatures will increase significantly under global warming of 2°C,…
Lancet will not retract discredited paper on tissue engineered trachea transplants
The Lancet has said that it will not retract a 2008 paper on tissue engineered…
STAT+: A key study of Gilead’s breast cancer drug meets goal, but withheld data raise doubts
Gilead Sciences said Monday that a large clinical trial of its drug Trodelvy achieved its…
Moving from self-responsibility to blaming clinicians
I was saddened to read about Philip Mitchell being found guilty of negligence regarding periconceptional…
How many GPs do we need? The answer is not a number
Planning the workforce is harder than guessing the number of general practitioners needed.1 We need…
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Paul Farmer: public health and social medicine visionary
bmj;376/mar07_3/o582/FAF1faCredit: John Ra, Partners in HealthPaul Farmer’s humanitarian passion was summed up in the title…
Use of adherence monitoring in drug contracts tied to outcomes: put patients first
Healthcare payers, including NHS England,1 are making increasing use of outcomes based contracts for new…
GPs in England should become “predominantly salaried,” says report backed by Javid
General practice in England faces a wave of radical reform if recommendations in a new…
Public health experts sketch a roadmap to get from the Covid pandemic to the ‘next normal’
A new report released Monday charts a path for the transition out of the Covid-19…
STAT+: With cash running short, Bluebird Bio and its gene therapies face uncertain future
Bluebird Bio, the troubled developer of gene therapies, has warned that cash is running short,…
Opinion: Politicians should not be deciding what constitutes good medicine
Most people get their medical advice from their doctors. But many may soon get it…
Opinion: Sunsetting medical license reciprocity would return medicine to the dark ages
Like many other 3-year-old boys, Braxton Davis is lively and at times playfully mischievous. But…
Doctors, companies push to keep looser, pandemic-era rules for prescribing opioid addiction treatment via telemedicine
WASHINGTON — It got a lot easier for patients with opioid addiction to get their…
Women see more adverse events with chemotherapy and newer cancer treatments, study finds
When Crystal Ortner was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, her doctors decided to tackle…
STAT+: Researchers question whether Amazon’s partnership with Teladoc will really improve access to health care
Amazon and Teladoc have pitched a new feature letting millions of consumers call doctors directly…
Most Of The US Population Relieved From Mask Duty: Is The Pandemic Over? Experts Weigh In
As states nationwide and nations worldwide are relaxing their COVID-19 protocols, people are wondering if…
Almost A Third Of People Report Lingering Symptom 6-12 Months After COVID-19: Study
Almost a third of people report at least one ongoing symptom between 6 and 12…
Almost A Third Of People Report Lingering Symptom 6-12 Months After COVID-19: Study
Almost a third of people report at least one ongoing symptom between 6 and 12…
Is Omicron ‘More Deadly’ For The Vaccinated?
California saw more deaths among the vaccinated people during the peak of omicron compared to…