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When kindness becomes a habit, it improves our health

NPR Health

Whether it's volunteering at a local school or taking soup to a sick neighbor, improving the welfare of others can also improve our own physical and mental health, a sizable body of research shows.

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Hospitals cannot refuse free medical treatment to rape, acid attack victims: Delhi High Court

The Hindu

It ordered that every medical facility in the capital will put up a board saying: Free out-patient and in-patient medical treatment is available for victims/ survivors of sexual assault, rape, gang rape, acid attacks, etc.

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Most Americans partly blame high insurance profits for UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: Poll

The Hill

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans think that profits made by health insurance companies had either a great deal or moderate amount of responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, a new poll found. Thompson was shot and killed last week outside a midtown Manhattan hotel where UnitedHealth Group was holding its annual investor conference.

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Groundbreaking technology converts cancer cells into normal cells

News Medical Health Sciences

Despite the development of numerous cancer treatment technologies, the common goal of current cancer therapies is to eliminate cancer cells.

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Costco egg recall for salmonella receives FDA's most severe designation

NPR Health

The FDA has classified its recall of eggs sold under Costco's Kirkland brand as a Class I recall, a designation reserved for instances of the highest potential health risk including death.

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111 drug samples tested in November found ‘not of standard quality’

The Hindu

Identification of drug samples as NSQ is done based on failure of the drug sample in one or the other specified quality parameters

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“Good neighbors”: supporting veterans’ caregivers in WNC post-Helene

NC Health News

By Grace Vitaglione John David Large, 42, is a caregiver for his father, John Meade Large, a veteran with esophageal cancer in Buncombe County. The 75-year-old served in the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1971. Hes undergone radiation and is now on home hospice care. Large does the cooking, cleaning and shopping and takes care of his fathers medications so his mother can stay with his father.

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This Christmas I'll be grieving. Here's how I'll be finding joy.

NPR Health

Since her husband's death, newscaster Windsor Johnston has been looking for ways to recapture joy and continue her healing journey one that's taken her to a place she'd never expected.

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Pet food recalled after cat death linked to bird flu contamination

The Hill

The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) alerted cat owners to throw out a brand of frozen food after it tested positive for bird flu. One house cat has already died due to the contamination. We are confident that this cat contracted H5N1 by eating the Northwest Naturals raw and frozen pet food, Ryan Scholz, ODA state veterinarian, said in a statement.

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News: Q&A: Angela Gonzales (Hopi), on New Indigenous Health Research Dashboard

Rural Health Information Hub

Interviews the director of a new project offering a dashboard of Indigenous health research. Describes how the project involves tribal communities, can impact Indigenous health disparities, future plans, and more.

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Twisted Edison: Bright, elliptically polarized incandescent light

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic vision systems and other applications for light that traces out a helix in space.

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Bird flu has killed 20 big cats including cougars at a U.S. wildlife sanctuary

NPR Health

The sanctuary in Washington state said it was working with officials to determine the cause of the outbreak, which has killed over half of its cats in recent weeks.

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Bird flu virus in Louisiana patient likely mutated to be more transmissible, CDC says

The Hill

A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed mutations that may result in the virus becoming more transmissible among humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency in its latest update released Thursday said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patients infection.

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Simple device could be a gamechanger for asthma patients

News Medical Health Sciences

A device costing just pennies, based on an idea by a University of Manchester Professor to help his son use an inhaler, could be a gamechanger for asthma patients.

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Bird flu virus shows mutations in first severe human case in U.S., CDC says

The Hindu

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The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles

NPR Health

The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn't authorized for food, including edibles, because it doesn't meet safety standards.

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Covid-19, influenza, and RSV increasing around the holidays in New York

HEALTHBEAT

Sign up for Your Local Epidemiologist New York and get Dr. Marisa Donnellys community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. Have questions, comments, or ideas for future topics? Just reply to this email. I would love to hear from you. Well be taking a break for the next two weeks to recharge (and recuperate after getting sick myself ), but we wanted to share the latest data on respiratory viruses in time for holiday travels.

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Crossing the Uncanny Valley: Breakthrough in technology for lifelike facial expressions in androids

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Even highly realistic androids can cause unease when their facial expressions lack emotional consistency. Traditionally, a 'patchwork method' has been used for facial movements, but it comes with practical limitations. A team developed a new technology using 'waveform movements' to create real-time, complex expressions without unnatural transitions.

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U.S. approves first drug treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea

The Hindu

The drug Zepbound, from drugmaker Eli Lilly, is already approved for people who are obese or overweight and have a related health condition, such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or high blood pressure

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For homeless seniors, finding stable housing takes a village — and a lot of luck

NPR Health

'/> The number of unhoused seniors is expected to triple by 2030. As rents rise, it becomes tougher to find affordable housing that's accessible for those with medical conditions and disabilities.

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Spatial aging clocks reveal how T cells and neural stem cells shape brain aging

News Medical Health Sciences

Researchers developed spatial aging clocks to map brain cell aging, revealing how T cells accelerate aging and NSCs rejuvenate neighboring cells, offering new insights into brain health and interventions.

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Urgent action needed to protect the Parma wallaby

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The creation of more fox-free safe havens and greater collaboration between government and landowners is needed to ensure the survival of a species of wallaby, an expert argues. The Parma wallaby, also known as the white-throated wallaby, is listed as a vulnerable species in Australia, while the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies it as Near Threatened.

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IIT Bombay researchers develop painless needle-free shock syringes  

The Hindu

Researchers at IIT Bombay develop a shockwave-based needle-free syringe that ensures painless and safe drug delivery with lesser damage to skin and lower risk of infection.

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Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library

NPR Health

The Gold Coast Yesterday and Today, published in the early 1940s.'/> Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back and made it happen.

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Mapping cerebellar nuclei outputs in an autism mouse model

News Medical Health Sciences

The cerebellum plays a critical role in both motor and non-motor functions, and its dysfunction is linked to various mental disorders, including autism.

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Adoption of 'hospital-at-home' programs remains concentrated among larger, urban, not-for-profit and academic hospitals

Science Daily - Public Health

Hospitals that have adopted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 'hospital-at-home' program, which serves as an alternative to admission to brick-and-mortar facilities, are concentrated in large, urban, not-for-profit, and academic hospitals, highlighting need for targeted incentives to expand program to smaller, rural, and non-teaching hospitals.

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Indian Council of Medical Research develops AI tool to predict IVF outcomes in men with infertility

The Hindu

The tool was developed in collaboration with researchers from Amity University; it predicts sperm retrieval rates and success rates of assisted reproductive technology in men with Y chromosome microdeletion

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I discovered one way to fight loneliness: The Germans call it a Stammtisch

NPR Health

Modern life can be lonely. Some are looking to an old German tradition of drinking and conversation to deepen connection through regular meetups.

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Study reveals how societal inequities influence brain aging and dementia

News Medical Health Sciences

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have collaborated with international partners to explore if societal inequality affects our brain.

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Why health journalists should write more about shooting survivors 

Association of Health Care Journalists

Gun violence coverage often focuses on people killed in shootings. And thats for good reason more than 48,000 Americans are shot and killed each year, according to recent research. However, only focusing on fatalities misses a big part of the problem. A majority of people who are shot survive about 115,000 nonfatal shootings occur each year. Survivors sometimes wrestle with the physical, emotional, and mental impacts of a gunshot wound for the rest of their lives.

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Pandemic preparedness: Learning from COVID-19 and Nipah to build a resilient future

The Hindu

For India to mitigate future pandemics effectively, it must expand the One Health model nationally, creating a network of One Health centresdedicated to monitoringpotential disease outbreaks, studyingenvironmental factors, andtrackinganimal-human disease transmission patterns

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'May love rest gently in your broken heart': What to say to a grieving friend

NPR Health

When a good friend's loved one passes away, it can be hard to find the right thing to say. NPR readers share words of comfort they've shared with others or wish they'd heard themselves.

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Advancements in DNA storage through epi-bit technology

News Medical Health Sciences

In the era of big data, global mass data flow has presented data storage systems with a looming challenge. As DNA has incredibly high storage density a single gram of DNA can store 215,000 terabytes, the same size as 10 million hours of high-definition video (Imburgia & Nivala, 2024) and long-term stability, it is an attractive medium for data storage.

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Journalist uncovers high cancellation rates for veterans’ mental health appointments

Association of Health Care Journalists

Veterans should be able to receive mental health care as a benefit through the Veterans Health Administration. Sadly, thats not always the case, as AHCJ member and frequent Military.com contributor Patricia Kime discovered. Her recent investigative story, Canceled Appointments, Unexplained Mixups Veterans Facing Challenges Getting VA Mental Health Care , revealed that the cancellation rate for in-person and telehealth mental health appointments across VA facilities averaged 10.6% from 2020-202