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2016: A Year in Review

Mr. Epidemiology

Lets wrap up the year by reviewing our most popular stories of 2016. April 2016: Perhaps there is a drug that can prolong your life. Thanks to all our old and new Public Health Perspectives readers for your support over the year. Your tweets, Facebook comments, and feedback are all really appreciated.

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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 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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Former MDPI CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez joins Frontiers

Frontiers

Dr. Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. Image: Dr. Franck Vazquez, Frontiers’ head of partnerships.

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Hotter, more frequent droughts threaten California’s iconic blue oak forests

Frontiers

The study focuses on the extreme drought of 2012 – 2016, but suggests that these conditions will become more frequent in the future. The devastating 2012 – 2016 drought in California triggered widespread tree cover loss and die-offs of a variety of species in the region.

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AI and Public Health Film, a collaboration on the 5th International Public Health Film Competition

Better Health For All

We then reached out to the Public Health Film Society (PHFS), [2] a UK based charity that has been undertaking public health film events and competitions since 2016. [3] First International Public Health Film Competition 2016-reflections on the development and use of competition judging criteria. J Public Health (Oxf).

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Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world’s urban greenhouse gas emissions

Frontiers

Then, they analyzed and compared the carbon reduction progresses of the cities based on the emission inventories recorded in different years (from 2012 to 2016). For 30 cities, there was a clear emission decrease between 2012 and 2016. Lastly, they assessed the cities’ short-, mid-, and long-term carbon mitigation goals.

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