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Tiny New Zealand bird delivers a lesson in birdsong evolution

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists are rethinking the evolution of vocal learning in birds. New Zealand's smallest bird, the rifleman or titipounamu, may have a rudimentary version of the talent possessed by parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds.

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Everything You Need to Know About the VOICES of Black Women Study (Focused on Us and Cancer)

Black Health Matters

The announcement was all over the news: The American Cancer Society, the VOICES of Black Women , the largest population study focused solely on Black women and cancer. But how will it work? We talked to two Principal Investigators on the study leadership team, Drs. Lauren E. McCullough and Alpa V. Patel, about how the study works, what is involved commitment-wise, how one qualifies, what study participants can expect, how this study differs from a clinical trial or intervention, and what they wi

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Infectious H5N1 influenza virus in raw milk rapidly declines with heat treatment

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research. However, small, detectable amounts of infectious virus remained in raw milk samples with high virus levels when treated at 72 degrees Celsius (161.6 degrees Fahrenheit) for 15 seconds -- one of the standard pasteurization methods used by the dairy industry.

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Podcast From Washington: Experts Discuss Changes in Local Health Department Infrastructure From New Forces of Change Survey Report

The NACCHO Podcast Series

Washington, DC, June 14, 2024 — On this month’s podcast, the National Association of County and City Health Officials ’ (NACCHO) Victoria Van de Vate, Director of Government Affairs, and Lauren Mastroberardino, Government Affairs Senior Specialist, provided an outlook on the Fiscal Year 2025 federal funding landscape and the implications for local public health.

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Sharks have depleted functional diversity compared to the last 66 million years

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the last 66 million years, before steadily declining over the last 10 million years to its lowest value in the present day.

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High-precision measurements challenge our understanding of Cepheids

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have clocked the speed of Cepheid stars -- 'standard candles' that help us measure the size of the universe -- with unprecedented precision, offering exciting new insights about them.

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