Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk suddenly and dramatically at the end of the Last Ice Age, around eight thousand years ago. The evidence, contained within an ice core, shows that in one location the ice sheet thinned by 450 meters -- that's more than the height of the Empire State Building -- in just under 200 years.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Introduction In the dynamic realm of artificial intelligence (AI), programming languages play a pivotal role in shaping the future of innovative applications. Among them, JavaScript stands out as a versatile and powerful language, traditionally associated with web development but increasingly finding its place in the AI landscape.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, Your Social Work Career Coach Jennifer Luna interviews Dr. Jonathan Singer. Jonathan is the founder of The Social Work Podcast and was inducted as an NASW Social Work Pioneer® in 2023.

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Gideon

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Q fever may not be well known, but it is a bacterial disease that can be a biological threat. Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent, infects sheep, cattle, and other domestic animals and can spread to humans, even when the animals do not show symptoms of the infection! Read more on the GIDEON blog. The post Q-Fever 101: All About This Neglected Zoonotic Disease appeared first on GIDEON.

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Public Health Newswire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Lack of affordable rental housing a driver

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Health IT Buzz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The SMART Health IT (SMART) team based in Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program has been a leader in developing new capabilities leveraging the HL7® FHIR® standard. A 2010 Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project (SHARP) was SMART’s first ONC funding opportunity that led to the creation of the SMART on FHIR application programming interface (API).

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Blockchain technology has disrupted the financial sector in interesting ways. Therefore, it is no surprise that the market for blockchain in financial services is currently worth over $7 billion and that figure is likely to keep growing in the coming years.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Empowering Social Workers. Please spend Social Work Month with us at The New Social Worker. THANK you for all you do. Follow us all month (March 2024) to celebrate the social work profession and the ways we empower and are empowered.

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Gideon

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Parrot Fever, or psittacosis, mostly affects birds but the disease can spread to humans. This bacterial infection is also a Category B agent of bioterror, according to the US CDC. That’s because it is a zoonotic disease that could be aerosolized and spread far and wide. As a result, public health agencies need to keep an eye on parrot fever outbreaks.

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Public Health Newswire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

‘We cannot wait any longer,’ executive director says in wake of mass shootings

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Berkeley Public Health: Racism and Health

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

More than 75 years of transformational research and hands-on social impact for a better world.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Our brains are 'programmed' to learn more from people we like -- and less from those we dislike. This has been shown by researchers in cognitive neuroscience in a series of experiments.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been proven unmatched in recent years. It is no longer a subject of our imagination. AI has become a reality, and it is becoming clearer by the day that it can change the world for the better. But can artificial intelligence help us in enhancing data security?

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Nominated for five Academy Awards and with the tag line "discomfort and joy," The Holdovers is a Christmas film and a Valentine, and a promise that despite the harshness of winter, spring will be ours.

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Gideon

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The story of the Machupo virus is interesting. It rarely spreads from person to person and its biggest outbreaks were in the sixties and localized to a region in Bolivia. Also, effective vector control significantly curbed the spread. But why are we still talking about it? Well, Machupo causes Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever, a disease with no cure but a high mortality rate.

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Public Health Newswire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Measles cases increase as vaccine uptake slips

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

On this month’s podcast, the National Association of County and City Health Officials ’ (NACCHO) Lauren Mastroberardino, Government Affairs Senior Specialist, gives an update on the FY2024 appropriations negotiations and what to expect from Congress. Later in the program (2:36), Timothy McCall, NACCHO’s Director of Research, was joined by NACCHO staff, Adriane Casalotti, Chief of Government and Public Affairs, and Victoria Van de Vate, Director of Government Affairs, to discuss on the recent rel

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study. The results, which are contrary to prevailing opinion, are based on DNA analysis of skeletons and teeth found in what is now Denmark.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In a world increasingly reliant on data analytics for decision-making and strategic planning, the importance of data recovery cannot be overstated. Data loss or corruption can have severe consequences, disrupting business operations, compromising valuable insights, and potentially leading to financial losses or reputational damage.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We all experience poopy times. With a good enough focus and some gratitude, this, too, shall pass.

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Sheffield DPH

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This one is a working note style. More so than normal:) my working list of why weight loss drugs aren’t the ansa (sorry not terribly well organised) is below. Before you read this, you must read Phil’s New Statesman article on GLP1 agonists. 1. cost. current list price, the annual cost of treatment would be £2275 + clinical time. Opportunity cost ??

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Public Health Newswire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Over 40% of health workers plan to look for new job following pandemic stresses, study says

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Inspired during field work in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, geoscientists have proposed that all-time low volcanic carbon dioxide emissions triggered a 57 million year-long global 'Sturtian' ice age.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Circumpolar Current works as a regulator of the planet's climate. Its origins were thought to have caused the formation of the permanent ice in Antarctica about 34 million years ago. Now, a study has cast doubt on this theory, and has changed the understanding of how the ice sheet in Antarctic developed in the past, and what this could mean in the future as the planet's climate changes.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A new study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer's patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients' behavior or environment has caused changes that affect the way their genes work. Many of these altered immune genes are the same ones that increase an individual's risk for Alzheimer's. Scientists now theorize the cause could be a previous viral infection, environmental pollutants or other lifestyle factors and behaviors.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Researchers have succeeded in generating a logical qubit from a single light pulse that has the inherent capacity to correct errors.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Scientists have found soundwaves from low-intensity focused ultrasound aimed at a place deep in the brain called the insula can reduce both the perception of pain and other effects of pain, such as heart rate changes.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Research involving has shown that a 'swarm' of more than 100 autonomous ground and aerial robots can be supervised by one person without subjecting the individual to an undue workload.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study shows there is a gender gap between women and men when it comes to exercise. The findings show that women can exercise less often than men, yet receive greater cardiovascular gains.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It's an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Researchers have discovered a change in what scientists already knew about global warming dynamics. It had been widely accepted since the 1950s that global temperature rises were not consistent throughout the day and night, with greater nighttime warming being observed. However, the recent study reveals a shift in dynamics: with greater daytime warming taking place since the 1990s.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A drug that binds to allergy-causing antibodies can protect children from dangerous reactions to accidentally eating allergy-triggering foods, a new study found.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You can mend a broken heart this valentine s day now that researchers invented a new hydrogel that can be used to heal damaged heart tissue and improve cancer treatments.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Fake news works for wallabies and elephants. Herbivores can cause substantial damage to crops or endangered or protected plants, with traditional methods to deter foraging lethal, expensive or ineffective. Biologists are now using aromas from plants naturally repellent with remarkable success to deter the animals.

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