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Center for Aging presents 24th Annual Friedman Lecture & Awards, April 4

Washington University in St. Louis - Institute for

MARCH 14, 2025

Friedman Center for Aging presents its 24 th annual Friedman Lecture and Awards event. During the past two decades, research on Blue Zones TM has helped to identify how the worlds longest living populations achieve better health and vitality. On April 4, the Harvey A. Keynote lecturer, Kimberly C. communities.

Ageing and Health

Cleveland Clinic presents new findings on triple-negative breast cancer vaccine

News Medical Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Cleveland Clinic researchers are presenting updated findings from their novel study of a vaccine aimed at preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease.

Lupus Research Alliance announces 33 studies to be presented at ACR Convergence 2024

News Medical Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA), the largest private funder of lupus research worldwide, today announced that a total of 33 studies, funded by the organization or supported by its clinical research affiliate Lupus Therapeutics, will be presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

New evidence on the relationship between moderate wine consumption and cardiovascular health

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The study is based on the analysis of a biomarker of wine intake -- specifically, tartaric acid, present in grapes. Light and moderate consumption of wine is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular complications, according to a multicenter study.

Egypt has been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization

NPR Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

WHO declares a country malaria-free when the disease has not been present for at least three consecutive years before the designation. Egypt has been fighting malaria for nearly 100 years. Image credit: James Gathany/AP)

Pope Francis makes first public appearance since hospital stay

The Hill

MARCH 23, 2025

The laboratory tests, chest X-ray, and clinical conditions of the Holy Father continue to present a complex picture, the Vatican said at the time in a statement. Last month, the Pontiff was hospitalized, and the Vatican said he had developed pneumonia in both of his lungs.

New year, new norovirus outbreaks: Let’s add ‘hand washing’ to the resolution list!

Public Health Insider

JANUARY 3, 2025

Its present year-round, but most outbreaks occur during November to April, when people are more regularly in close quarters indoors. If youve been following the news in recent weeks, you may have seen stories about outbreaks of norovirus a highly contagious virus that causes rapid onset of vomiting and diarrhea.

A more severe strain of mpox has been detected in the U.S. for the first time

NPR Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The CDC says the strain does not present a high risk to the general population. The patient was traveling from East Africa, where the mpox disease is endemic. Image credit: Smith Collection)

Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

But which species are hit hardest? And how does altered biodiversity actually affect interactions between plants?

Here are ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time

NPR Health

MARCH 17, 2025

Teenagers who often do not want to be managed present a set of extra challenges. Managing screen time for kids it's one of the issues that defines modern parenthood. The American Psychological Association has a new tool kit full of strategies to help parents.

WSJ asks Kennedy to cast aside 'antivax hooey' amid Texas measles outbreak

The Hill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

an environmental lawyer by trade, has long been part of the problem, and at his Senate confirmation hearings he presented himself as just asking questions, man. "Yet for some people, the reality of measles feels like a sepia-toned history lesson, whereas the antivax hooey featured on podcasts these days sounds current," the Journal added.

Herd Immunity

Models show intensifying wildfires in a warming world due to changes in vegetation and humidity; only a minor role for lightning

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse gas emissions will likely increase the global lightning frequency by about 1.6%

Self Care Builds Resilience for Stronger Climate and Health Engagement

Climate for Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In Florida in late September, I was excited to present a TEDx talk on climate engagement to a national audience of leading neonatologists. Key highlights from my presentation included.

Barbershop Killing Escalates Trauma for Boston Neighborhood Riven by Gun Violence

KFF Health News

MARCH 14, 2025

Brito maintains his innocence and we are looking forward to presenting his defense at trial,” Brito’s attorney, David Leon, said in a statement to KFF Health News. Brito, of Canton, Massachusetts, was arrested in Mattapan in October and is being held without bail.

Mental Health and Public Health

Mental Health and Public Health Health Policy

Waist circumference identified as a stronger cancer risk marker in men

News Medical Health Sciences

MARCH 24, 2025

However, new research to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) and published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that waist circumference (WC) is a stronger risk marker than BMI for developing obesity-related cancers in men, but not women.

Risk Factors

Ten years on, there’s still no way to track kids in NC’s child welfare system online

NC Health News

MARCH 17, 2025

Credit: DHHS NC FAST presentations, DHHS, compiled by the NC General Assembly / Division of Fiscal Research There are still a handful of counties making do with the old system, but eventually it will be completely scrapped. NC child welfare information system development expenditures per state fiscal year ($ in millions). in FY 2022-23.)

Ageing and Health

Ageing and Health Health Policy

History of the Self: Smell and Memory

NPR Health

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Today on the show, the science and politics of smell, and how it links our past and our present. What if we told you that the key to time travel has been right in front of our eyes this whole time? Well, it has: it's in our noses.

When did human language emerge?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MARCH 18, 2025

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

La historia de Concho, el sapo en peligro que aparece en el nuevo álbum de Bad Bunny

Environmental Health News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Un cortometraje que le dio la vuelta al mundo present a un pequeo anfibio que disfruta de ver fotografas antiguas y escuchar los sonidos del barrio, sentado en el jardn de un viejo amigo. Tiene botas azules y ganas de comer quesito, un postre hecho de masa de hojaldre, tradicional en Puerto Rico. Es un […]

Food Packaging Forum updates database on migrating food contact materials

Environmental Health News

MARCH 13, 2025

The Food Packaging Forum updates their Database on Migrating and Extractable Food Contact Chemicals ( FCCmigex ), identifying 1,060 new chemicals present in or migrating from food packaging and other food contact articles.

Environmental Health

Forever Chemicals found in bottled and tap water from around the world

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Scientists have discovered toxic 'Forever Chemicals' present in samples of drinking water from around the world.

The risk of global water scarcity is greater when accounting for the origin of rain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers are now presenting an alternative method for quantifying the global risk of water scarcity. Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Climate & Health at TEDx

Climate for Health

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In Florida in late September, I was excited to present a TEDx talk on climate engagement to a national audience of leading neonatologists. Key highlights from my presentation included.

Study finds bone density loss associated with levothyroxine

News Medical Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

may be associated with bone loss, according to a study being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Levothyroxine, the second most commonly prescribed medication among older adults in the U.S.,

Georgia health agencies work to contain metro Atlanta measles outbreak

HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

After her presentation, Dorian Freeman, GNR Public Healths Director of Clinical Infectious Disease, told the board that her team was notified of an active case of pulmonary tuberculosis in a South Gwinnett High School student in December. Over the last few years, were seeing these trending upward, Francis-Christian told the board.

First conclusive evidence that a terrestrial leech species can jump

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 20, 2024

A new study presents video evidence that at least one species of terrestrial leech can jump, behavior that scientists have debated for more than a century.

Organic material from Mars reveals the likely origin of life's building blocks

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 1, 2024

The study presents solid evidence for a prediction made over a decade ago that could be key to understanding how organic molecules, the foundation of life, were first formed here on Earth. Two samples from Mars together deliver clear evidence of the origin of Martian organic material.

Heart failure patients benefit from dapagliflozin after TAVR procedure

News Medical Health Sciences

MARCH 30, 2025

Patients with heart failure who took dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor, after undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were significantly less likely to die or experience worsening heart failure at one year compared with patients who did not take the drug, according to a study presented at the American (..)

COVID-19 pandemic led to significant decline in cardiac arrest survival rates

News Medical Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates dropped significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued to remain lower than in the pre-pandemic years of 2015-2019, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2024.

An ant that selectively amputates the infected limbs of wounded sisters

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 2, 2024

When experimentally testing the effectiveness of these 'treatments,' not only did they aid in recovery, but the research team found the ants' choice of care catered to the type of injury presented to them.

Return of the elephants seals: From a few to thousands

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The research shows that this species narrowly escaped extinction by hunting, resulting in lasting genetic effects in the present population. A new international study has revealed the genetic impact of hunting in northern elephant seals.

New evidence pushes back arrival of early hominins in Europe

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Research reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought.

Healthy plant-based diets linked to longer life for people with cardiometabolic disorders

News Medical Health Sciences

MARCH 18, 2025

People with cardiometabolic disorderssuch as obesity, diabetes and heart diseasecould increase their chances of living longer by adopting a healthy plant-based diet, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session (ACC.25).

Ancient DNA reveals Indigenous dog lineages found at Jamestown, Virginia

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing of this replacement, researchers sequenced mitochondrial DNA from archaeological dogs.

The Sick Times’ long COVID coverage philosophy and writing opportunities

Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 4, 2025

Betsy: A friend who has long COVID recently told me that her employer added COVID-19 precautions for a staff retreat after she presented why this is important, using some of our articles as sources. Our socials continue to grow and have formed an incredible community online that we feel privileged to cover.

Some mice may owe their monogamy to a newly evolved type of cell

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 15, 2024

Scientists discover the cells and hormones that inspire mice to nurture their young; the same hormones are also present in humans. The answer may be a previously unknown hormone-generating cell.

Data security: Breakthrough in research with personalized health data

Science Daily - Public Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The European research project 'Federated Secure Computing' presents a new approach that allows patient data from different institutions to be analysed securely and anonymously.

Dinosaurs roamed the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously thought, according to new analysis of the oldest North American fossils

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 7, 2025

A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were recently uncovered is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously known.

CSTE’s Latest Epidemiology Capacity Assessment (ECA) Sounds the Alarm on State of Epi Workforce

CSTE

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The ECA also helps us monitor changes in the applied epidemiology workforce, including the number of epidemiologists presently working, the number of epidemiologists still needed, and the skills most sought after in state, Tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments.

Territorial Health

Nearly one-third of Americans exposed to unregulated contaminants in drinking water

News Medical Health Sciences

JANUARY 22, 2025

Researchers assess socioeconomic disparities in exposure to unregulated contaminants present in public water systems throughout the United States.

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A new study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The study is based on a new analysis of metatranscriptomic data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Biodegradable 'living plastic' houses bacterial spores that help it break down

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Researchers have developed a biodegradable form of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) filled with bacterial spores that, when exposed to nutrients present in compost, germinate and break down the material at the end of its life cycle. A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry's environmental footprint.

No surge in respiratory illnesses says Union Health Ministry; advises States to strengthen awareness on HMPV

The Hindu

JANUARY 6, 2025

The direction were issued following a virtual meeting of chaired by Union Health Ministry Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava with States and UTs to review the present situation of respiratory illnesses and HMPV cases in India

Neuroscientists spark shelter-seeking response by reactivating memory circuit

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Using a sophisticated brain-imaging system, neuroscientists say they have successfully reactivated a specific memory circuit in mice, causing them to seek out shelter when no shelter is actually present.

Center for Aging presents 24th Annual Friedman Lecture & Awards, April 4

Cleveland Clinic presents new findings on triple-negative breast cancer vaccine

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Lupus Research Alliance announces 33 studies to be presented at ACR Convergence 2024

New evidence on the relationship between moderate wine consumption and cardiovascular health

Egypt has been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization

Pope Francis makes first public appearance since hospital stay

New year, new norovirus outbreaks: Let’s add ‘hand washing’ to the resolution list!

A more severe strain of mpox has been detected in the U.S. for the first time

Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age

Here are ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time

WSJ asks Kennedy to cast aside 'antivax hooey' amid Texas measles outbreak

Models show intensifying wildfires in a warming world due to changes in vegetation and humidity; only a minor role for lightning

Self Care Builds Resilience for Stronger Climate and Health Engagement

Barbershop Killing Escalates Trauma for Boston Neighborhood Riven by Gun Violence

Waist circumference identified as a stronger cancer risk marker in men

Ten years on, there’s still no way to track kids in NC’s child welfare system online

History of the Self: Smell and Memory

When did human language emerge?

La historia de Concho, el sapo en peligro que aparece en el nuevo álbum de Bad Bunny

Food Packaging Forum updates database on migrating food contact materials

Forever Chemicals found in bottled and tap water from around the world

The risk of global water scarcity is greater when accounting for the origin of rain

Climate & Health at TEDx

Study finds bone density loss associated with levothyroxine

Georgia health agencies work to contain metro Atlanta measles outbreak

First conclusive evidence that a terrestrial leech species can jump

Organic material from Mars reveals the likely origin of life's building blocks

Heart failure patients benefit from dapagliflozin after TAVR procedure

COVID-19 pandemic led to significant decline in cardiac arrest survival rates

An ant that selectively amputates the infected limbs of wounded sisters

Return of the elephants seals: From a few to thousands

New evidence pushes back arrival of early hominins in Europe

Healthy plant-based diets linked to longer life for people with cardiometabolic disorders

Ancient DNA reveals Indigenous dog lineages found at Jamestown, Virginia

The Sick Times’ long COVID coverage philosophy and writing opportunities

Some mice may owe their monogamy to a newly evolved type of cell

Data security: Breakthrough in research with personalized health data

Dinosaurs roamed the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously thought, according to new analysis of the oldest North American fossils

CSTE’s Latest Epidemiology Capacity Assessment (ECA) Sounds the Alarm on State of Epi Workforce

Nearly one-third of Americans exposed to unregulated contaminants in drinking water

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins

Biodegradable 'living plastic' houses bacterial spores that help it break down

No surge in respiratory illnesses says Union Health Ministry; advises States to strengthen awareness on HMPV

Neuroscientists spark shelter-seeking response by reactivating memory circuit

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