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These fish use legs to taste the seafloor

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Sea robins are unusual animals with the body of a fish, wings of a bird, and walking legs of a crab. Now, researchers show that the legs of the sea robin aren't just used for walking. In fact, they are bona fide sensory organs used to find buried prey while digging.

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Inside the Country’s Worst Listeria Outbreak in 13 Years

APHL

By Donna Campisano, specialist, Communications, APHL Last summer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes, which, to date, has killed ten people and caused 59 to be hospitalized across 19 states. That makes it the largest Listeri a outbreak this country has seen since 2011.

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'Weekend warrior' physical activity may help protect against more than 200 diseases

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Compared with inactivity, a weekend warrior pattern of exercise (concentrating most moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in one to two days during the week) or a more evenly distributed physical activity pattern were associated with similarly lower risks of diseases across 16 categories -- from heart and digestive conditions to mental health and neurological illnesses.

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Policy-based approaches to combat large-scale integrity threats

The Official PLOS Blog

Author: Renee Hoch, Managing Editor, PLOS Publication Ethics Team The publishing industry and research communities are grappling with numerous large-scale integrity threats, including paper mills, authorship-for-sale, peer review manipulation, and problematic usage of AI-generated content. These issues can evade publishers’ checks and be damaging on multiple levels if published: they can quickly litter the published record with high volumes of unreliable content, fracture researchers’

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Researchers discover new bacterium that causes gut immunodeficiency

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered a new bacterium that weakens the immune system in the gut, potentially contributing to certain inflammatory and infectious gut diseases. The team identified the bacterium, Tomasiella immunophila (T. immunophila), which plays a key role in breaking down a crucial immune component of the gut's multi-faceted protective immune barrier.

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Why did Americans expect a perfect COVID vaccine?

Your Local Epidemiologist

This is post 2 of 4 in this mini-series looking back at the public health communication around the Covid-19 vaccines, why trust was lost, and where communication broke down. The goal is not to point fingers or lay blame, but rather get a view from outside our bubble to see how messages were perceived. Read the first post here —level setting on a reduction of trust in vaccines.

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Alarming surge: Global crisis of childhood overweight and obesity

Science Daily - Public Health

Since 1990, childhood obesity has nearly doubled globally, with the U.S. at the forefront. Addressing pediatric obesity requires a multifaceted approach from tackling the influence of social media and advertising on children's food choices to increasing physical activity.

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This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth -- 8 billion years from now

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system resembling what our sun-Earth system will look like in 8 billion years. The good news: the planet survived its star's red giant phase, so maybe Earth will too.

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It really matters that most public health programs are not classified as STEM

JPHMP Direct

Did you know most public health graduates do not graduate as a STEM major? Find out why it matters in this post by JP Leider and Heather Krasna. The post It really matters that most public health programs are not classified as STEM first appeared on JPHMP Direct.

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NASA's Hubble finds that a black hole beam promotes stellar eruptions

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory. The stars, called novae, are not caught inside the jet, but apparently in a dangerous neighborhood nearby.

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Robin Lin Miller on Global Stigma Towards Gay and Bisexual Men

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The post Robin Lin Miller on Global Stigma Towards Gay and Bisexual Men appeared first on AIDSVu.

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Scientists design new drug to fight malaria

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A team has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action.

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Report: Public health underfunding harming prevention, preparedness

Public Health Newswire

CDC's budget for fiscal 2024 slashed by 3%

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Scientists uncover a critical component that helps killifish regenerate their fins

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Spontaneous injuries like the loss of a limb or damage to the spinal cord are impossible for humans to repair. Yet, some animals have an extraordinary capacity to regenerate after injury, a response that requires a precise sequence of cellular events. Now, new research has unveiled a critical timing factor -- specifically how long cells actively respond to injury -- involved in regulating regeneration.

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Report: Public health underfunding harming prevention, preparedness

Public Health Newswire

CDC's budget for fiscal 2024 slashed by 3%

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ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational project ever carried out with an ESO telescope.

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Eswatini and Global Fund Launch New Grants to Accelerate Progress Against AIDS, TB and Malaria and Strengthen Systems for Health

The Global Fund

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) and the government of Eswatini launched the implementation of three new grants worth a total US$46.7 million for the period 2024-2027. The funding will help sustain and expand Eswatini’s progress against AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, and strengthen health and community systems across the country over the 2024-2027 period, in line with Eswatini’s strategic national plans.

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Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ Covid conditions, with little help

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. One evening in May, nursing assistant Debra Ragoonanan’s vision blurred during her shift at a state-run Massachusetts veterans home. As her head spun, she said, she called her husband. He picked her up and drove her to the emergency room, where she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm.

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Project 2025 endangers babies, the elderly and disabled

Managed Care Matters

A Trump Administration’s healthcare policies will be guided by Project 2025 , which - among other things, seeks to impose “targeted time limits or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits.” Proponents of cuts are pushing for lifetime maximum of 36 months and/or a dollar limit, either of which would seriously affect: Thanks for reading Managed Care Matters!

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