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Rural Americans in Pharmacy Deserts Hurting for Covid Vaccines
As the Biden administration accelerates a plan to use pharmacies to distribute covid-19 vaccines, significant areas of the country lack…
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Oregon’s Logging Industry Says It Can’t Afford New Taxes. But Prices Have Never Been Higher and Profits Are Soaring.
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Genetic study uncovers hidden pieces of eye disease puzzle
Scientists have taken a significant step forward in their search for the origin of a progressive eye condition which causes…
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In California, Caregivers of People With Disabilities Are Being Turned Away at COVID Vaccine Sites
In California, confusion and botched communication has caused some eligible parents and family caregivers of people with disabilities to be…
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The Hottest Amenity From Developers? A Power Plant Made of Batteries.
In Utah, Soleil Lofts signed a first-of-its-kind deal with Rocky Mountain Power, which can tap the batteries as a power…
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Researchers watch anti-cancer drug release from DNA nanostructures in real time: Findings provide insights into tunable drug delivery and new design paradigms of DNA-based drug-carriers
DNA nanotechnology — the research field using DNA molecules as building material — has developed rapidly during recent years and…
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Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Young Covid ‘Long Haulers’
A slumber party to celebrate Delaney DePue’s 15th birthday last summer marked a new chapter — one defined by illness…
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Santorini Shipwreck an Environmental Time Bomb Ready to Explode
The Santorini shipwreck. Credit: Loucas Lignos The Santorini shipwreck of the cruise ship MS Sea Diamond has been a permanent…
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New study gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects
A large proportion of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatment to…
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Humus compost manure system gets carbon into the soil, cuts fertilizer use | Duluth News Tribune
Owners Chad and Pam Olsen and their Olsen Custom Farms at Hendricks, Minn., is most widely known for their custom…
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Indoor air quality study shows aircraft in flight may have lowest particulate levels
If you’re looking for an indoor space with a low level of particulate air pollution, a commercial airliner flying at…
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Popeyes Announces Plans To Remove Artificial Ingredients, Antibiotics
Popeyes to announce new food quality and sustainability commitments as part of a 5-year plan … [+] facilitated by parent…
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Russian researchers: Average Arctic temperature could increase 20°С by century’s end
According to the Russian Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematic, climate gas emissions are leading to a continued rapid temperature increase in the…
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Great Slave Lake 2020 water levels confirmed highest on record
Advertisement. New research confirms Great Slave Lake’s water levels during the summer and fall of 2020 were the highest since…
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COVID-19 spread tracked via a rapid, large-scale early wastewater surveillance alert system
Detecting COVID-19 outbreaks before they spread could help contain the virus and curb new cases within a community. This week…
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Nanoparticle-delivered COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in preclinical studies
Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health have developed a promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate…
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Reforested areas rival mature forests in securing water, study finds
New research from Madagascar shows that young scrubby forests can in some ways be better at retaining water than older…
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Disruption of lung biological clock in premature babies may raise later flu risk
Disruptions in the circadian rhythms in lung cells may explain why adults who survived premature birth are often more at…
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Drilling advocates continue to plan for seismic surveys in Alaska’s Arctic refuge – ArcticToday
The village of Kaktovik, Alaska, is the only settlement within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Kaktovik’s village corporation is in…
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Heart disease is in the eye of the beholder
In a new study from Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health, researchers have identified a potential new marker…
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Old copper plant closed for good
The closure of the furnaces and converters reduce sulfur dioxide emissions down to less than 30,000 tons per year, Nornickel…
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Ultrasonic cleaning of salad could reduce instances of food poisoning
A new study has shown that gentle streams of water carrying sound and microscopic air bubbles can clean bacteria from…
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Farmers again lose compensation claim over contaminated eggs – DutchNews.nl
Photo: DutchNews.nl Poultry farmers have again had their demand for government compensation over the fipronil in eggs scandal rejected, this…
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Novel drug prevents amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease
Amyloid plaques are pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) — clumps of misfolded proteins that accumulate in the brain, disrupting…
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75 environmental bills were filed this session; more than two-thirds of them are now dead
Sarah Bowman , London Gibson | Indianapolis Star Indy_environ_segment_4_FINAL The environment plays a large role in issues, such as COVID-19…
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Cooperative eco-driving automation improves energy efficiency and safety
Imagine you’re driving up a hill toward a traffic light. The light is still green so you’re tempted to accelerate…
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Food for thought: New maps reveal how brains are kept nourished: Micro-scale depictions solve century-old puzzle of brain energy use and blood vessel clusters
Our brains are non-stop consumers. A labyrinth of blood vessels, stacked end-to-end comparable in length to the distance from San…
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park wraps up Krejci Dump clean-up, restoration
BOSTON HEIGHTS, Ohio – The National Park Service announced Tuesday it has completed the cleanup, restoration and revegetation of a…
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House health leader calls for permanent Medicare telehealth expansions
House health subcommittee chair Rep. Anna Eshoo said Tuesday it’s time to make telehealth flexibilities enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic permanent…
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Coronavirus Today – March 2 – BizNewsPost
Frontline workers in NC are eligible for COVID-19 vaccines beginning March 3. By Anne Blythe As the Johnson & Johnson…
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The 3 Absolute Best Food Processors, According to Food Experts
If you’ve been spending more time in the kitchen lately or have decided to commit to meal prepping, it’s likely…
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The Greek Island Where Renewable Energy and Hybrid Cars Rule – Inside Climate News
Athens—Tasos Dimalexis and his colleagues from the Hellenic Ornithological Society had spent days scouring the rocky promontory on the remote…
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Unveiling the weaving fractal network of connecting neurons: Quest to design implants to treat macular degeneration leads research team to a discovery that connectivity is completed with a balancing act involving energy costs
High-resolution imaging and 3D computer modeling show that the dendrites of neurons weave through space in a way that balances…
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When the Kids Started Getting Sick
Westmoreland’s managers have maintained that their facility is nonhazardous and that “waste deemed hazardous through radiation detection would not have…
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Industry Voices—Harnessing a watershed moment for real-world data
Across every facet of life, 2020 tested our resolve and resilience. COVID-19 stretched our systems to the breaking point, exposing…
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Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified: The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstances
In the 1995 movie “Outbreak,” Dustin Hoffman’s character realizes, with appropriately dramatic horror, that an infectious virus is “airborne” because…
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11 Tasteful Teapots For Your Self-Care Ritual
In my childhood home, my mother has a serious tea station, with filtered water, a timer, and a tea kettle…
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Alphabet’s Verily joins Highmark, Google Cloud project Living Health
Highmark Health has inked a six-year partnership with Alphabet’s Verily to further build its Living Health model. The team-up builds…
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How Climate Change Will Affect Your Investment Opportunities
The Guardian Republicans want to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives. That should alarm us State legislators are trying…
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Quest Diagnostics, 98point6 team up to incorporate patient labs into telehealth
Quest Diagnostics and 98point6 have teamed up to make it easier for patients to connect with a doctor virtually about…
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COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction: Study reveals details of how coronavirus infects heart; models of tissue damage may help develop potential therapies
Since early in the pandemic, COVID-19 has been associated with heart problems, including reduced ability to pump blood and abnormal…
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Territory Foods Is One of the Best Meal Kits for People With Special Dietary Needs
I opted for a custom plan of eight meals spread across both delivery days, so that my meals would be…
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A mechanism by which cells build ‘mini-muscles’ underneath their nucleus identified: Researchers identified a mechanism by which cells build ‘mini-muscles’ underneath their nucleus
Research groups at the University of Helsinki uncovered how motor protein myosin, which is responsible for contraction of skeletal muscles,…
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6 Ways to Make the Most of a Virtual Personal Training Session
But “realistic” also applies to what is practical in the lens of at-home workouts, when equipment for many of us…
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UPMC generates $1B in earnings for 2020 thanks to strong insurance division
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center posted $1 billion in revenue after expenses for 2020, despite drops in surgery admissions…
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13 Best-Selling Glass Food Storage Containers for Easy Meal Prep
If you’re looking to meal prep or pack up leftovers, you may want to trade in your old plastic pieces…
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Farther, Faster and No Sweat: Bike-Sharing and the E-Bike Boom
As with all bicycles during the pandemic, electric bikes, or those with battery-powered motors to handle propulsion, boomed. The market…
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Blue Cross NC saw $200M in COVID-related claims last year
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California saw $200 million in claims related to COVID-19 last year, the insurer said…
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California’s Vaccine Rollout Has Yet to Reach Most Farmworkers | Civil Eats
Late last month, Judith Redmond of Full Belly Farm received a last-minute call from her neighbor Jim Durst. His farm,…
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Vaccine development software shows promise in influenza effort, could help defeat coronavirus: Korber’s Epigraph algorithm used for HIV, Ebola, Marburg thus far
A novel computer algorithm that could create a broadly reactive influenza vaccine for swine flu also offers a path toward…
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