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Brain research: Study shows what your favorite film genres reveal about your brain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Crime films, action films, comedies, or documentaries? A person's favorite film genre reveals a lot about how their brain works. Fans of action films and comedies reacted very strongly to negative emotional stimuli, while participants who favored documentaries or crime films and thrillers had a significantly weaker reaction.

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Self-Care A-Z: Here’s Your Self-Care Awareness Month Calendar for September 2024!

The New Social Worker

Celebrate our anniversary and deepen awareness and activation of self-care. This calendar provides a daily dose of self-care for September 2024.

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In , Webb Telescope finds more star birth clues

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds -- objects with planet-like masses but untethered from any star's gravity -- including the lightest ever identified with a dusty disk around it. The elusive objects offer new evidence that the same cosmic processes that give birth to stars may also play a common role in making objects only slightly bigger than Jupiter.

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Data Analytics Plays a Key Role in Improving Instagram Visibility

Smart Data Collective

You will need to understand the importance of social media analytics if you are trying to boost your Instagram visibility.

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New study supports annual breast cancer screening for women over 40

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Women diagnosed with breast cancer who had regular screening mammograms every year were less likely to have late-stage cancer and had higher overall survival than those who received screening every other year or less often, according to new research.

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Amid bird flu, farmworkers tending sick cows with only gloves to protect them

HEALTHBEAT

In early August, farmworkers gathered under a pavilion at a park here for a picnic to celebrate Farmworker Appreciation Day. One sign that this year was different from the others was the menu: Beef fajitas, tortillas, pico de gallo, chips, beans — but no chicken. Farms in Colorado had culled millions of chickens in recent months to stem the transmission of bird flu.

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Healthbeat's New York reporter discusses West Nile virus on WNYC

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. Healthbeat New York reporter Eliza Fawcett joined “The Brian Lehrer Show” on WNYC on Tuesday to give a public health update on several viral threats. Fawcett’s recent reporting has focused on cases of West Nile virus in the city and what you need to know about the risk amid peak mosquito season.

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Defining chronic pain for high-performance athletes with disabilities

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The extensive training and the sacrifices athletes make to compete at the Olympic games take center stage. For Paralympians and high-performance athletes with spinal cord injuries (SCI), assessing chronic pain plays a key role in their training and readiness to compete. However, the source of chronic pain is often misattributed to acute trauma or overuse injuries.

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24.10 Release Notes

Phreesia

Summary Don’t have time to read the entire 24.10 Release Notes? We understand—you’re busy! Use the table of contents on the left to easily jump to different sections, if needed. Featured Enhanced mobile logos now available We’ve optimized the Phreesia Branding Manager to better display your organization’s logo on mobile devices. To enjoy a larger, clearer logo on your mobile landing page, upload a high-quality image in the “Mobile-Enlarged Size” area of the Branding Manager.

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Coastal cities must adapt faster to climate change

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Coastal cities play a key role in the global economy and have important functions for society at large. At the same time, they are severely affected by the impact of climate change. That is why their role in global climate adaptation is crucial.

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If one more guy tells me how emotionally intelligent he is without showing it…

EpidemioLogical

In 1995, science journalist Daniel Goleman popularized the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) with his bestselling book “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.” Goleman proposed that EI was just as important (maybe more?) than traditional measures of intelligence like the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in determining success in life.

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Highest-resolution observations yet from the surface of Earth

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Astronomers have achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth. They managed this feat by detecting light from distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz, equivalent to a wavelength of 0.87 mm. They estimate that in future they will be able to make black hole images that are 50% more detailed than was possible before, bringing the region immediately outside the boundary of nearby supermassive black holes into sharper focus.

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Breastfeeding is a Black Community Imperative

Black Health Matters

One of the reasons we celebrate Black Breastfeeding Week is because it is a health equity call to action, according to Bintou Diarra, Editorial Lead at Mama Glow, MS2 at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. “The research consistently shows breastfed babies have lower sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, diabetes, and ear infections,” she says. “But for the parent, there is also research that says [they] may be less likely to develop ovarian and breast cancer.̶

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Pregnancy after sterilization turns out to be surprisingly common

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Tubal sterilization is thought to be a permanent form of birth control and is the most common method of contraception nationally. But a new study reports that tubal surgery fails often enough that some other forms of birth control are usually more effective.

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Call for Hot Topics in Infectious Diseases (ID) Abstracts

ProMED

We welcome you to submit an abstract for a poster or oral presentation on a “Hot Topic” at the ICID 2024. This session is meant to highlight ID research that may have made important findings after the general Abstracts submission, including the Late Breaking Abstracts closed. Consider submitting if your research or new data represents an emerging, hot topic issue, especially in the African region.

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Hidden magmatism discovered at the Chang'e-6 lunar landing site

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Lunar igneous activities including intrusive and extrusive magmatism, and their products contain significant information about the lunar interior and its thermal state. Their distribution is asymmetrical on the nearside and farside, reflecting the global lunar dichotomy. In addition to previously returned lunar samples all from nearside (Apollo, Luna, and Chang'e-5), samples from the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin on the farside have long been thought to hold the key to rebalancing the asymmetric

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Delivering Health Coaching with Motivational Interviewing to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Uninsured Women

JPHMP Direct

An examination of the implementation of the CDC’s WISEWOMAN program in Illinois supports community-specific tailoring and developing and testing innovative strategies to reach uninsured women through health coaching with motivational interviewing. The post Delivering Health Coaching with Motivational Interviewing to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Uninsured Women first appeared on JPHMP Direct.

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Video gaming improves mental well-being, landmark study finds

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A pioneering study titled 'Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020-2022,' published in Nature Human Behaviour, has conducted the most comprehensive investigation to date on the causal relationship between video gaming and mental well-being. This research, the first to demonstrate this relationship using real-life data, challenges commonly held views about the effects of gaming.

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