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Placebos reduce stress, anxiety, depression -- even when people know they are placebos

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A study found that nondeceptive placebos, or placebos given with people fully knowing they are placebos, effectively manage stress -- even when the placebos are administered remotely.

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Leveraging Annotation Tools for Accessible Web Design: A Guide for Inclusivity

Smart Data Collective

AI technology can do a lot to help make web design more inclusive and help people with disabilities use websites more easily.

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Bloomberg Gave a $600M Gift to HBCU Medical Schools

Black Health Matters

On August 6th, Michael Bloomberg announced a move that could reshape the future of healthcare. His recent $600 million gift (through Bloomberg Philanthropies) to four historically Black medical schools is to help bolster their endowments is more than a financial boost. It’s a step towards a more equitable healthcare system. Where is the Donation Going?

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Federal task force report calls for social media providers to protect youth

Public Health Newswire

Ninety-five percent of teens use social media digital sites

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Hydrogels can play Pong by 'remembering' previous patterns of electrical simulation

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report. The researchers hooked hydrogels up to a virtual game environment and then applied a feedback loop between the hydrogel's paddle -- encoded by the distribution of charged particles within the hydrogel -- and the ball's position -- encoded by electrical stimulation.

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Six Signs It’s Time to Master Big Data Management

Smart Data Collective

You are going to need to know how to use big data wisely if you want to be successful in business.

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Addressing extreme heat as a significant public health challenge

Public Health Newswire

APHA’s climate center prioritizing threat to health

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Mitochondria are flinging their DNA into our brain cells

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study finds that mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the cells' nucleus, where the mitochondrial DNA integrates into chromosomes, possibly causing harm.

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Why You Need to Work With A Dietitian to Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals

Black Health Matters

When you have obesity, embarking on a weight management or maintenance plan can be full of peaks and valleys, and getting guidance from the right dietitian can help you achieve your goals. We asked L. Casey Flowers, MS. RD, LDN, a Program Dietitian at Morehouse School of Medicine, to guide us on what to look for in a dietician, the assessment process, goal setting, lengths of visits, and the insurance process so they have an idea of the process.

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Exciting news for elementary school kids: Guaranteed recess!

Public Health Insider

Thanks to a new law signed in 2023 by the Governor, all students in grades K-5 are now guaranteed recess to support their physical and mental health. The post Exciting news for elementary school kids: Guaranteed recess! appeared first on PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER.

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Every NYC school building now has Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses. Is it enough?

HEALTHBEAT

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat New York. Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Vince Muccioli will never forget the terror he felt waiting for paramedics as one of his students lay unresponsive on the classroom floor, color draining from his face. It was a quiet Friday afternoon in March 2022, and Muccioli, a math teacher at West Brooklyn Community High School, had given the student permission to lay his head on his desk.

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Life from a drop of rain: New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research shows that rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to every bacterium, plant, animal, and human that ever lived.

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Siskiyou County Health Department Achieves Historic Milestone with PHAB Pathways Recognition

PHAB

Media Contact Keith Coleman, VP of Communications and Public Affairs communications@phaboard.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2024 — Today, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) announced that Siskiyou County Health and Human Services — Public Health Division, located in California, has been recognized as the first local health department to achieve the prestigious Pathways Recognition.

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The Bald, The Bold & The Beautiful

Black Health Matters

Hair loss is a profoundly challenging experience affecting millions worldwide, particularly for us, where hair often plays a significant role in our identity and social and cultural acceptance. Close to 50% of Black women experience hair loss , with Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CA) being the most common diagnosis in about 15% of us, according to The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).

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New York City reports the year’s first human cases of West Nile virus

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported the year’s first human cases of West Nile virus, in four city residents, on Monday. One person was diagnosed with West Nile fever and three others were hospitalized with West Nile neuroinvasive disease — a rare and serious condition — beginning in late July, the Health Department said.

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Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporary bother, in many parts of the world it can be scary. One mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, spreads the viruses that cause over 100,000,000 cases of dengue, yellow fever, Zika and other diseases every year. Another, Anopheles gambiae, spreads the parasite that causes malaria. The World Health Organization estimates that malaria alone causes more than 400,000 deaths every year.

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What We Know About Coffee and Parkinson’s Disease

Evidence Based Living

Across the globe, more than 10 million people suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder that leads to unintended and uncontrollable movements such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with balance and coordination. Scientists are working to better understand the mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s disease.

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How to Fight the High Cost of Dental Stigma

Black Health Matters

It doesn’t take a ton of doom-scrolling before encountering smile shaming, a name for the social stigma faced by those with visible dental health issues. Memes and skits that shame people for less than stellar oral health are frequently posted on social media. The premise of the jokes is to label the person with a missing or chipped tooth as lazy, ignorant, unattractive, and untrustworthy.

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World Humanitarian Day 2024: Five women leaders on how to stay safe in a humanitarian crisis

Care

As we mark World Humanitarian Day on Monday August 19, CARE is putting the spotlight on women leaders who are bringing needed relief to people facing crises.

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Scientists discover new code governing gene activity

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A newly discovered code within DNA -- coined 'spatial grammar' -- holds a key to understanding how gene activity is encoded in the human genome. This breakthrough finding revealed a long-postulated hidden spatial grammar embedded in DNA. The research could reshape scientists' understanding of gene regulation and how genetic variations may influence gene expression in development or disease.

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NACCHO’s Podcast From Washington: Experts Discuss Key Findings From NACCHO’s New 2024 Public Health Informatics Profile

The NACCHO Podcast Series

Washington, DC, August 23, 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 for federal funding this fall, amid the summer Congressional recess and the upcoming election season.

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Addressing extreme heat as a significant public health challenge

Public Health Newswire

APHA’s climate center prioritizing threat to health

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Public Health community approach to climate. Our carbon footprint or our narrative?

Sheffield DPH

Climate change is the most important public health crisis of the next 200 years. We haven’t seen it play out fully in the UK yet, by a long way. It is one of the priorities for Yorkshire and Humber Directors of public health. The actions that are good for the planet are good for health. A health-centred response to climate change will deliver huge improvements in the health of our communities through the associated co-benefits of climate action.

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Bed-sharing has no impact on children's psychological development

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Parental bed-sharing is unlikely to impact children's psychological development, new research has found. The study looked at nearly 17,000 British babies and tracked them for 11 years -- finding kids who shared beds were happy and healthy.

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Covid cases surge in Georgia, FDA approves new vaccines

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. As the United States heads toward a new summer record for Covid cases, rates in Georgia are “very high,” with related deaths and hospitalizations on the rise. The surge comes as updated Covid vaccines were approved Thursday and granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Federal task force report calls for social media providers to protect youth

Public Health Newswire

Ninety-five percent of teens use social media digital sites

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Bearing witness to the destruction in Gaza

Care

"Since this crisis started 10 months ago," she said. "Every day I woke up thinking it can't get worse, and every next day I realize I was wrong.

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Red and processed meat consumption associated with higher type 2 diabetes risk, study of two million people finds

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Meat consumption, particularly consumption of processed meat and unprocessed red meat, is associated with a higher type 2 diabetes risk, an analysis of data from 1.97 million participants.

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Mpox clade I: what you need to know

UK Health Security

Credit: CDC/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) This blog post was reviewed and updated in October 2024. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern because of the rapid spread of a mpox virus strain, clade I, after its emergence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last year, and the potential for the virus to spread further across countries in Africa and outside the continent.

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DNA tech offers both data storage and computing functions

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have demonstrated a technology capable of a suite of data storage and computing functions -- repeatedly storing, retrieving, computing, erasing or rewriting data -- that uses DNA rather than conventional electronics. Previous DNA data storage and computing technologies could complete some but not all of these tasks.

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Explanation found for X-ray radiation from black holes

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have succeeded in something that has been pursued since the 1970s: explaining the X-ray radiation from the black hole surroundings. The radiation originates from the combined effect of the chaotic movements of magnetic fields and turbulent plasma gas.

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Scientists propose guidelines for solar geoengineering research

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

To guide future research into solar geoengineering, an international group of scientists is making specific recommendations for evaluating proposals in order to identify the most feasible and legitimate scenarios for stratospheric aerosol intervention.

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New gels could protect buildings during wildfires

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have developed a sprayable gel that creates a shield to protect buildings from wildfire damage. It lasts longer and is more effective than existing commercial options.

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Humpbacks are among animals who manufacture and wield tools

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers suggest a new designation of the humpback whales they study: tool wielders. Researchers have known that humpback whales create "bubble-nets" to hunt, but they have learned that the animals don't just create the bubble-nets; they manipulate this unique tool in a variety of ways to maximize their food intake in Alaskan feeding grounds.

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