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HPV vaccine credited for declining cervical precancer rates

The Hill

Rates of precancerous lesions in women between the ages of 20 and 24 dropped by roughly 80 percent from 2008 to 2022, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. There are about 10,800 cases of cervical cancer in the U.S.

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Video op-ed: Communities in a newly-revealed cancer cluster in Texas deserve justice

Environmental Health News

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2008. The waste pits are contaminated with cancer-causing dioxins and furans , resulting in the areas becoming classified as a Superfund Site by the U.S. Former EPA Administrator Earthea Nance called the pits one of the most complex Superfund sites in the nation.

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Five Fast Facts on CSTE’s Updated Applied Epidemiology Competencies

CSTE

In 2008, CSTE and CDC collaborated to create the first set of Applied Epidemiology Competencies (AECs). Of course, the world has changed drastically since 2008, so CSTE and CDC have partnered once again to update the AECs and ensure relevancy in 2023. 15 Years and running. The first step?

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New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

Environmental Health News

In 2008, a federal judge ordered the Forest Service to conduct a study of wildfire retardants environmental impacts. From the study, " Metals in Wildfire Suppressants " However, a series of lawsuits brought by FSEEE that date back to 2004 have called into question the chemicals potential impacts on wildlife and water pollution.

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Establishing the link between smartphone use and adolescents’ mental health

The Hindu

Although numerous factors have traditionally been identified as drivers of poor mental health, one key change in the younger generations is the arrival of smartphones, which were introduced in 2008, coinciding with the onset of rising mental health problems

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Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction

Frontiers

Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought on the breeding success of southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert between 2008 and 2019. The results showed that breeding output collapsed during the monitoring period (2008-2019) due to the increased maximum air temperature. Population collapse.

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Surveys show full scale of massive die-off of common murres following the 'warm blob' in the Pacific Ocean

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Analysis of 13 colonies surveyed between 2008 and 2022 finds that colony size in the Gulf of Alaska dropped by half after the marine heat wave. Colony surveys of common murres, an Alaskan seabird, show the full effects of the 2014-16 marine heat wave known as 'the blob.'

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