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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

With the help of a science mentor, each article in the Nobel Collection has been reviewed by kids themselves to ensure it is understandable, fun, and engaging before publication. Quasi-Crystal, Not Quasi-Scientist , written by Dan Shechtman , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. ABOUT FRONTIERS.

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HIV in Focus: Living Positively

Black Health Matters

Advances in HIV treatment have allowed those living with HIV to help manage the disease, however HIV remains a major public health challenge. You can live more positively with HIV by understanding the condition, managing your health, and prioritizing your mental well-being. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Have smartphones and ubiquitous internet access affected sedentary time among children and adolescents?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

The public health consequences of this increase in sedentary time are uncertain. Sedentary time appears to be unrelated to metabolic health in youth, when moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity is taken into consideration. Modern societies are highly automated, with little need to expend energy in physical activity.

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Homeless sweeps thwarting health care in California as medicine, ID lost

HEALTHBEAT

Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie sprawled on public sidewalks, sometimes in drug overdoses.

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Home-like respite stay is new alternative to psychiatric hospitalization in Raleigh

NC Health News

By Taylor Knopf A new kind of mental health service is available in Wake County, and it offers a voluntary alternative to hospitalization for people experiencing mental distress. Its called a peer-run respite house; its the first of its kind in the Triangle area and only the third to open in North Carolina.