world health news 2019
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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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People with disabilities moved to vaccine list – BizNewsPost
Families and advocates are cheering the decision to bump up vaccine priority for people with disabilities. By Rose Hoban Linda…
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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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Bitter receptor involved in anti-inflammatory effect of resveratrol? Human gum cells as a test system for investigating interactions between resveratrol, bitter receptors and the release of inflammatory markers
Resveratrol is a plant compound found primarily in red grapes and Japanese knotweed. Its synthetic variant has been approved as…
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Energy switching decisions could widen social inequalities
New energy tariffs could leave people on bad deals even worse off despite the potential benefits for everyone, research has…
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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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Human instinct can be as useful as algorithms in detecting online ‘deception’
Travellers looking to book a hotel should trust their gut instinct when it comes to online reviews rather than relying…
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Tuna’s Last Stand | Hakai Magazine
Article body copy On the western fringes of Tuna Alley, the skipjack are about to fly. As a fishing…
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Over half of global environmental defender murders in 2020 in Colombia: report
A recent report from Front Line Defenders revealed that in 2020, at least 331 environmental defenders were killed globally. The…
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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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Study highlights pitfalls associated with ‘cybervetting’ job candidates
A recent study of how human resources professionals review online information and social media profiles of job candidates highlights the…
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Did the Protests Work? The Wet’suwet’en Resistance One Year Later | The Walrus
On February 10, 2020, police arrested seven people while raiding the Unist’ot’en camp in northwestern British Columbia. Among those arrested…
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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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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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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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New research highlights impact of the digital divide: Bauer dean offers solutions to improve job status of at-risk populations
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn new attention to the digital divide, as the need for online schooling and working from…
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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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The 13 Best Snack Subscription Boxes to Cure Your Cravings
Picture this: It’s 3 p.m., your stomach growls, energy crashes, and your hand gropes for something edible. Chances are, you…
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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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Reversing Trump, Interior Department Moves Swiftly on Climate Change
WASHINGTON — As the Interior Department awaits its new secretary, the agency is already moving to lock in key parts…
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This Coronavirus Variant Has Now Been Detected in 15 U.S. States
A new coronavirus variant first detected in New York has now appeared in several other states. And there are now…
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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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The COVID baby boom is looking more like a baby bust
When the pandemic first took hold in the U.S., many joked that widespread lockdowns would spark a “baby boom” and…
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Congress to investigate One Medical’s vaccination practices: report
Congress is launching an investigation into concierge healthcare provider One Medical following allegations that the company has been administering COVID-19…
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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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Children subject to air pollution may suffer heart defects
Evidence has been collected which demonstrates how early exposure in life to dirty air leads to an alternation of the…
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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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Scientists use lipid nanoparticles to precisely target gene editing to the liver: Gene editing delivery method in mice suggests possible one shot treatment of high cholesterol
The genome editing technology CRISPR has emerged as a powerful new tool that can change the way we treat disease.…
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AMA, ANA call for improved efforts to collect race, ethnicity data on COVID-19 vaccinations
Major healthcare groups are calling for the industry to redouble efforts to collect and report race and ethnicity data when administering…
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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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Coronavirus-like particles could ensure reliability of simpler, faster COVID-19 tests
Rapid COVID-19 tests are on the rise to deliver results faster to more people, and scientists need an easy, foolproof…
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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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Even just a bit of advertising changes the game in word-of-mouth marketing: Whether selling products or communicating about vaccines, the tiniest bit of advertising changes the game
Nearly everything author Malcolm Gladwell said about how information spreads in his 2000 bestseller “The Tipping Point” is wrong, according…
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What if USPS delivered local produce in the mail?
A year ago, as COVID-19 spread and states asked people to shelter in place, the food system started to fall…
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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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Grocery Diaries: How an Avid Baker Who Loves Chocolate Manages Her Prediabetes
Welcome to Grocery Diaries, a new series that illustrates just how varied and personalized “healthy eating” really is. So many…
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Greenhouse gas emissions associated with dietary guidelines vary between countries
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with national dietary guidelines advocating a healthy diet vary greatly between countries, with US guidelines having…
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Alex Morgan, Sue Bird, Chloe Kim, and Simone Manuel Just Launched a Women’s Sports Site
Alex Morgan, Sue Bird, Chloe Kim, and Simone Manuel have eight Olympic gold medals between them—and they’re just getting started.…
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