Every day, the Ohio River sends billions of gallons of water flowing past Louisville’s pumping station, where the Kentucky city’s utility sucks it up to turn it into tap water.
Category: 8. Health
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Louisville found PFAS in drinking water: Trump administration wouldn't require any action
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Study uses urine screening to detect alcohol use in early pregnancy
Previous reports have indicated that between 20% and 60% of pregnant women in Ireland consume alcohol during pregnancy. Data on alcohol consumption by pregnant women in Ireland have previously only been collected through self-reporting in…
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Bone marrow cell atlas created for improved leukemia research
What do healthy bone marrow cells in children look like? For the first time, researchers have mapped this out. Scientists at the Princess Máxima Center examined nearly 91,000 individual bone marrow cells from healthy children. Their findings…
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Study shows screening increases survival rate for stage IV breast cancer by 60%
Women with stage IV breast cancer detected through screening have a 60% chance of survival 10 years after diagnosis. This is in comparison to a survival rate of under 20% of those with stage IV breast cancer which was not detected through screening.
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Integration of intragraft transcriptomics and urinary cytokines identifies CXCL10 and FasL signature in subclinical acute rejection
Rush, D. N., Jeffery, J. R. & Gough, J. Sequential protocol biopsies in renal transplant patients Clinico-pathological correlations using the Banff schema. Transplantation 59, 511–514 (1995).
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Plasma lipid remodeling during the early recovery phase after myocardial infarction
World Health Organization. World Health Statistics 2024: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals. (2024). https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376869/9789240094703-eng.pdf?sequence=1
Medina-Leyte, D. J. et al….
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Zuckerberg asked about Meta’s targeting of ‘teens’ and ‘tweens’ : NPR
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the Los Angeles Superior Court ahead of the social media trial tasked to determine…
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FDA’s abrupt flip-flop on Moderna’s mRNA flu shot highlights growing risks to drug-makers of investing in vaccines
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision, made public on Feb. 10, 2026, to not review an application to approve Moderna’s proposed mRNA-based flu vaccine set off a firestorm of criticism from public health experts.
But just a week…
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Booster shots reduce the risks of COVID-19 deaths, study finds
Booster vaccines reduced the risk of COVID‑19-related hospitalization and death, according to a new study of over 3 million adults who had the autumn 2022 vaccine in England. The research, led by the universities of Bristol and Oxford, provides…
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Menopausal hormone therapy not linked to increased risk of death, study shows
Menopausal hormone therapy (commonly known as hormone replacement therapy or HRT) is not associated with an increased risk of death, finds a Danish study of over 800,000 women published in The BMJ. The findings support current guidelines that…
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