When floods sweep through southern Africa, the most visible damage is immediate: homes washed away, crops destroyed, clinics disrupted, families displaced. These images dominate headlines and humanitarian appeals. But as floodwaters recede, a…
Category: 8. Health
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When floods hit, the risk of malaria follows: How disaster systems can prepare better
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The 'Golden Hour': Distance and delay define rural trauma care timelines
Billings Clinic investigators tracked trauma patients arriving directly from the scene versus patients transferred between facilities and found much longer times to reach the tertiary center for transfers, while adjusted mortality aligned with…
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Chocolate Company Announces Plans to Produce Lab-Grown Cocoa
Compared to just about every other trade in the books, the chocolate industry has changed…
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A potential broad coronavirus drug target: Blocking tRNA-modifying enzymes slows viral proteins
Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to produce viral proteins and thus spread more quickly. This is the main conclusion of a study by Pompeu Fabra University…
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Lawmakers Consider Ban on Implanting Microchips Into Workers
For workers at self-service vending company Three Square Market, getting microchipped is as…
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Breakthrough Discovery Could Make Pancreatic Cancer Respond to Chemo Again
A newly discovered gene switch may help turn chemotherapy-resistant pancreatic cancer into a treatable disease. Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have discovered a molecular “switch” that determines whether pancreatic cancer cells…
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Transplanted neural stem cells help preserve vision in retinal degeneration
Cedars-Sinai investigators working to optimize a cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa have uncovered how transplanted neural stem cells interact with host retinal cells to preserve vision. The findings, published in Nature…
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Hormone Therapy May Supercharge Popular Weight-Loss Drugs After Menopause
A new study suggests that a common menopause treatment may influence how effectively certain weight-loss medications work. A new study led by Mayo Clinic reports that postmenopausal women who used menopausal hormone therapy lost significantly…
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Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know This Popular Food Increases Colon Cancer Risk
A new national poll highlights a surprising gap in public awareness about a major dietary risk factor for colorectal cancer. Many Americans still do not realize that processed meat is linked to colorectal cancer, according to a new poll. The…
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Study maps complex interplay between cells, metabolism, and immunity in breast cancer lymph node metastasis
A recent integrative analysis of single-cell sequencing and single-cell spatial mapping of lymph node metastasis in breast cancer reveals novel mechanisms of the metabolic-immune interaction that drive the spread of breast cancer. The findings…
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