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APRIL 4, 2025
Medicare does cover GLP-1 drugs when prescribed for conditions like diabetes and heart disease, but legislation from 2003 prohibits Medicare from covering drugs for weight loss. But in a notice released Friday, the CMS said it would not be finalizing this proposed rule, providing no further details.
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Views of mental, physical health lowest in almost 25 years: Gallup
The Hill
MARCH 13, 2025
For physical health, the peak was in 2003, at 82 percent. Regarding physical health, those characterizing it as excellent went down to 24 percent, Gallup found. The highest number of Americans who gave their mental health a positive rating was 89 percent in 2012. The lowest figure for physical health was in 2023 at 24 percent.
CDC launches 'conflicts of interest' page about vaccine advisory panel
The Hill
MARCH 7, 2025
Offit served as a member of ACIP from 1998 to 2003. There's nothing new," said Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. This has always been available to the public." Under his name are 8 items listed, most noting that he is the co-holder of several vaccine patents.
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Health Beyond the Blog: Caitlin Rivers’ “Crisis Averted”
Exploring Health
JANUARY 31, 2025
As such, the book also tackles topics such as the eradication of smallpox, the battle against mosquito-borne illnesses in the Florida Keys, the role of PEPFAR in addressing HIV/AIDS, and the 2003 SARS outbreak.
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Smallest arm bone in human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of Homo floresiensis
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
AUGUST 6, 2024
Dated to about 700,000 years old, the new findings shed light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis, the so-called 'Hobbits' of Flores whose remains were uncovered in 2003 at Liang Bua cave in the island's west.
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R&B Legend D’Wayne Wiggins Has Died
Black Health Matters
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He also contributed to Alicia Keyss The Diary of Alicia Keys in 2003, an album that won three Grammys and sold over 5 million copies in the U.S. Wiggins worked closely with Destinys Child early on, signing them to his label and helping shape their first three albums, all of which went platinum.
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CSTE’s AEF Program: 20 Years of Training the Next Generation of Applied Epidemiologists
CSTE
APRIL 6, 2023
Since 2003, AEF has guided recent graduates through the expanding field of applied epidemiology. CSTEs AEF Program: 20 Years of Training the Next Generation of Applied Epidemiologists Pop Quiz: What do Finding Nemo, the Safari internet browser and iTunes all have in common? All three are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year.
Move Over Tiger Woods: Big Data Helps Discover The Perfect Golf Swing
Smart Data Collective
AUGUST 31, 2020
In 2003, the PGA created a ball-tracking system called ShotLink. Naturally, as 2003 was already so long ago, the technology for ShotLink has further evolved into something even more advanced. The term big data might still be relatively new, but data analytics has been in play with golf for years. But what about golf?
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What is space weather, and why are we monitoring it?
UK Health Security
MARCH 13, 2025
This was the strongest solar storm since 2003 to hit the Earths upper atmosphere. As the Sun reaches its most active period in 22 years, were increasingly aware of the risks we face from severe space weather events. An example of this was seen in the Mothers Day Storm in May 2024, which produced aurora visible across southern England.
How global travel affects the spread of infectious disease
Gideon
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
A single night in a Hong Kong hotel sparked a global SARS outbreak in 2003, forever changing how we view disease transmission. Today’s aviation networks can transport infectious diseases worldwide within 36 hours, creating unprecedented challenges for global health security. Learn more on the GIDEON infectious diseases blog.
Former Clarivate’s publisher analytics expert Ian Potter to head Business Intelligence at Frontiers
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Following his Blackwell’s tenure, in 2003 he joined a US publishing technology company ScholarOne to work on one of the leading manuscript submission platforms for scholarly publishers, which is now widely used by Wiley, T&F, Sage, Emerald, ACS, IEEE, De Gruyter and many other leading publishers.
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Stricter toxic chemical rules reduce Californians’ exposures
Environmental Health News
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Similarly, levels of the phthalate DEHP, which is used in vinyl and other plastic products, decreased in the bodies of Californians after it was listed under Prop 65 in 2003, but levels of a similar, unlisted phthalate called DiNP went up.
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The Health Care Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
Bush administration in 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) renamed Medicare + Choice as Medicare Advantage. According to Public Citizen, in 2003, the pharmaceutical industry spent a record $109 million on federal lobbying and hired a record 824 lobbyists. Understanding the Policy Context. Originally enacted under the G.W.
Human whistled languages may offer model for how to study dolphin communication
Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Meyer, Reiss and coauthor Dr Marcelo Magnasco, a biophysicist and professor at Rockefeller University, plan to apply this and other insights discussed in their paper to develop new techniques to analyze dolphin whistles.
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Tropical cyclones in Asia could double in destructive power under a warming climate, according to new research
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The researchers predict that compared to the present-day period (between 1979 and 2003), by the end of the 21st century (2075-2099), the average landfall intensity of tropical cyclones will increase by two meters per second (6%), while they will sustain for 4,9 hours longer (56%), and go 92,4km farther inland (50%).
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Big Data Creates Massive Changes for the Game of Golf
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
In 2003, a development that triggered the revolution of data happened when CDW partnered with PGA Tour with a ball-tracking system that is more advanced, known as ShotLink. One expert analyzed over 15 million shots and used a data analytics tool to understand ways to perfect golfing techniques.
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Top DevOps Trends that Will Matter in 2020 For Your Business
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 24, 2020
Site Reliability Engineering is an engineering discipline that first came into being in 2003 at Google before the word DevOps was even coined. As a rule, the higher the level of cardinality, the more likely it is that a system can be observable. This could be seen as a primitive sort of DevOps workflow pattern.
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Peregrine falcons set off false alarms to make prey easier to catch
Frontiers
OCTOBER 10, 2023
I first worked with Dick in 2003,” said Ydenberg. “He Ydenberg and his colleagues sought to test this, using decades of data provided by Dr Dick Dekker, to whom the study is dedicated on his 90th birthday. “I He was an independent, self-financed scientist with an obsessive interest in watching peregrines that started as a teenager.
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Climate crisis could double frequency of extreme regional summer droughts in Europe
Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
In Europe, the consequences of the climate crisis have been severe, with droughts having caused considerable social, economic, and environmental costs already, especially in the years 2003, 2010, and 2018. Climate projections show that more frequent and extreme weather events are expected by the end of the 21st century.
Toxocariasis in the United Kingdom
Gideon
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Prevalence surveys: 25% of dog hair samples (2003 publication) 7.2% of dogs with gastrointestinal disease (2003 to 2005) 91% of farm cats (1989) 53.3% of foxes (2003 publication) 13.3% of dogs with gastrointestinal disease (2003 to 2005) 91% of farm cats (1989) 53.3% of foxes (2003 publication) 13.3% per 100,000.
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5 Benefits Of Machine Learning In Enterprise Electrical Systems
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
It may surprise you to find out that there were 679 widespread, weather-related power outages between 2003 and 2012. Machine learning technology is good at anticipating safety risks and addressing them. Minimize Expensive Downtime. These outages cost the U.S. economy between $18 billion and $33 billion according to estimates from the U.S.
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‘Science is a measure of our ignorance: the more we know, the more we realize how little we know’
Frontiers
MARCH 22, 2022
He has published three books and more than 100 papers in physics since 2003. As a member of the LISA and Einstein Telescope consortia, his research areas are gravitational waves, nonlocal quantum gravity, multifractal spacetimes, cosmologies beyond the standard model, and string theory.
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The Eisenhower Principle
The Health Care Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2021
For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).
Improving Equitable Access to High-Quality Breast Cancer Screening, Treatment and Care
Fund for Public Health NYC
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The Breast Cancer Patient Navigator Program and the Breast Cancer will benefit from the Health Department’s experience with the Citywide Colorectal Cancer Control Coalition , which has helped increase colonoscopy rates for adults 50 and older by 71% between 2003 and 2020.
Dancing Beyond Disability: Zazel-Chavah O’Garra’s Story
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JULY 26, 2024
Diagnosed with meningioma, a brain tumor, in 2003, Zazel overcame immense challenges during her treatment, including paralysis, cognitive loss, and a speech impediment. As we honor Disability Pride Month, we spotlight Zazel-Chavah O’Garra.
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Ten years after her passing, Theo Colburn's legacy continues to grow
Environmental Health News
DECEMBER 13, 2024
Theo gave the first lecture on Monday, April 21, 2003, and we became great friends thereafter with extensive correspondence and regular phone conversations. I became her go-to chemist for fracking and many other things and joined her in Washington, D.C. to discuss the importance of endocrine disruption with Congress-people.
City officials urge New Yorkers to turn off the tap, take shorter showers during drought watch
HEALTHBEAT
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The 14-month drought ended in January 2003. During that period, the city issued a drought watch in December 2001, followed by a drought warning in January 2002 and the first stage of a drought emergency that April. The current drought warning is a preparatory measure, Aggarwala said.
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Celebrating 20 years of the Berlin Declaration: Frontiers supports Open Access Days 2023
Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
First published in 2003, the Berlin Declaration has become an integral part of scientific practice, defining open access and outlining actions needed to foster the open access paradigm.
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Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering Online Webinars: Intelligent Aerospace Systems
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. Krishna Kalyanam received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 2000, and the M.S. He joined NASA Ames Research Center as an Sr.
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Social Isolation Linked to Inadequate Nutrient Intake Among Older Adults
Mercola
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Beginning in 2002/2003, the researchers slowly gathered data throughout the years, resulting in a sample size of 3,771 individuals. They hypothesize that the lonelier a person is, the higher their risk of developing health problems.
Pythiosis in Humans
Gideon
AUGUST 18, 2015
102 cases of human infection were identified in Thailand through active case finding from 1985 to 2003 – 59% vascular, 33% ocular, 5% cutaneous/subcutaneous, and 3% disseminated. Pythium insidiosum is identified in irrigation water in endemic agricultural areas, and 64% of soil samples in endemic areas contain the organism.
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Salmonella by Any Other Name: Salmonellosis in Finland & How to Prevent the Next Outbreak
Gideon
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
2001 – 2003: 666 cases reported in Norway , Finland, and Swedish tourists infected by contaminated poultry. 2001: 303 cases 2002: 164 cases 2003: 199 cases. 1986: 226 cases from packaged meals offered to train and air passengers. 1992: 224 cases due to contaminated mung beans. 1994: 210 cases in Southern Finland due to alfalfa seeds.
What happened to big work comp PPOs?
Managed Care Matters
JANUARY 28, 2025
When it was finally sold off in 2003, Marion had fewer than 300 employees. Most of Bucyrus’ competitors went out of business, including the Marion Power Shovel Company. Marion employed over 2500 workers at its peak, when it made the largest steam shovels in the world to build the Panama Canal. Back to our little world.
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Big Business' Latest 'Solution' — Engineering Cow Digestion for Profit
Mercola
JANUARY 21, 2025
The safety studies fall under European Union Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 a framework with a crucial flaw: the manufacturer provides their own safety data. But dig into the actual research, and a different picture emerges one of limited studies, concerning findings, and corporate-controlled data.
Monkeypox Outbreaks in Texas: Are We Ready to Prevent the Next Outbreak?
Gideon
JULY 26, 2021
In 2003, 81 people in the United States were infected with monkeypox through contact with prairie dogs. While there was no outbreak this time, there have been a few in prior years. Monkeypox Infection Outbreaks In the case of monkeypox, there have been notable outbreaks in the past.
The Different Ways Quercetin Promotes Wellness
Mercola
OCTOBER 20, 2024
Viruses Are Quashed by Quercetin The reputation of quercetin as antiviral agent initially started in the aftermath of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Quercetin also exhibited DNA damage protection by reducing proteasome 20S levels," the study authors noted.
High Levels of Toxic Flame Retardants Found in Everyday Products Made from Black Plastic
Mercola
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
The researchers analyzed the blood levels of PBDEs of people who were participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, between 2003 and 2004. This is alarming, as flame retardants have been found to have neurotoxic, endocrine-disrupting, carcinogenic and adverse reproductive effects.
How would you like to change HIPAA?
Health Blawg
JANUARY 16, 2019
The regs were finalized in 2003.) The regs were finalized in 2003.) In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth.
How would you like to change HIPAA?
Health Blawg
JANUARY 16, 2019
The regs were finalized in 2003.) The regs were finalized in 2003.) In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth.
Misdiagnosing Legionellosis and Legionnaires Disease Can Be Fatal. But Why Is It Still Common?
Gideon
JULY 21, 2021
64-69, 2003. Cassell, “Legionnaires’ disease in the time of COVID-19,” Pneumonia, vol. 13, 2021. [5] al., “Diagnosis of Legionella Infection,” Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. The post Misdiagnosing Legionellosis and Legionnaires Disease Can Be Fatal. But Why Is It Still Common? appeared first on GIDEON.
What is Staphylococcus aureus?
Gideon
APRIL 29, 2021
Severe community-acquired pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus, 2003-04 influenza season. (6) Hageman JC, Uyeki TM, Francis JS, Jernigan DB, Wheeler JG, Bridges CB, Barenkamp SJ, Sievert DM, Srinivasan A, Doherty MC, McDougal LK, Killgore GE, Lopatin UA, Coffman R, MacDonald JK, McAllister SK, Fosheim GE, Patel JB, McDonald LC.
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‘Living under this constant threat’: Environmental defenders face a mounting mental health crisis
Environmental Health News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
“We’ve seen many generations grow,” said Jaime Absalón León Sepúlveda, founder and director of the Corporación Claretiana Norman Pérez Bello, which runs the home and has been sheltering human rights defenders from all over Colombia since 2003. “At
The Hidden Dangers of Antidepressants and Why It's So Hard to Stop Taking Them
Mercola
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Note: A 1996 door-to-door survey of 2003 randomly selected people in England found that 78% of them considered SSRIs to be addictive. 13 Additionally, it is well known in the SSRI recovery community that the risk of a withdrawal varies greatly depending on the drug (e.g.,
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