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Alsobrooks grills Kennedy on belief that Black Americans should get different vaccine schedules

The Hill

A 2016 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information found that among first year medical students, more than 20 percent believe false claims that Black people have a stronger immune system than white people. Your voice would be a voice that parents would listen to, Alsobrooks said.

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Inside the operating room of a new kind of pig kidney transplant

NPR Health

She's been on dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week since 2016. Health correspondent Rob Stein got exclusive access to be in the operating room. Towana is a 53-year-old grandmother from Gadsden, Ala. Her immune system would reject a human kidney.

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New FDA commissioner signed off on vaccine chief's ouster: Reports 

The Hill

In 2016, he became the director of CBER, the center responsiblefor the safety of vaccines, allergenic products, blood and blood products, and cellular, tissue and gene therapies.

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How Microplastics Accumulate in Your Brain and Other Organs

Mercola

For their experiment, they collected a total of 51 post-mortem tissue samples of liver, kidney and brain from 2016 and 2024. Furthermore, from 2016 to 2024, there was a significant increase in MNP concentrations in both livers and brains.

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New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth

Frontiers

Palmerio and collaborators looked at four stealth CMEs that occurred between 2008 and 2016. The novel imaging techniques applied to remote sensing data of the coronal mass ejection on 08 Oct 2016. 1st column: 08 Oct 2016 15:00 UTC. 2nd column: 09 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC. 3rd column: 09 Oct 2016 09:00 UTC.

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Catherine Sullivan receives Judith Lauwers Award for Excellence in Lactation Education

UNC Epidemiology Blog

Labbok retired in 2016, Catherine took over the role of CGBI director. In 2016, MRT-TI earned the distinction of becoming the first accredited Pathway 2 lactation consultant training program in the United States.

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Health Beyond the Blog: Dr. Paul Kalanithi and “When Breath Becomes Air”

Exploring Health

His memoir was published posthumously by Random House in January 2016. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in May 2013, during the final year of his neurosurgery residency, and began writing When Breath Becomes Air while undergoing treatment. Kalanithi died in March 2015, less than two years after his cancer diagnosis.