Mass General Brigham researchers have developed a new AI tool in collaboration with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to probe through previously collected CT scans and identify individuals with high coronary artery calcium…
Category: 5. Health
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What To Expect As The New Vaccine Advisory Committee Meets This Week
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 29: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for … More
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Examining The Economic Case For College Mental Health
U.S. Dollar Signs
In 2021, the American Council on Education conducted a survey of college and university presidents, which indicated that student mental health was the top-rated pressing issue. Many presidents are currently tasked with…
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Neuralink Is Working On Vision-Enhancing Implants, Elon Musk Says
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has advanced significantly in recent years.
Elon Musk’s latest venture: Using Neuralink to help people with vision loss see.
Elon Musk engaged in a fireside chat Thursday with famed startup accelerator Y…
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What Is ACIP? Inside the CDC Vaccine Panel in the National Spotlight
How will the newly ACIP operate? We’ll soon find out.
A once-obscure federal committee is now at the center of a political firestorm. This week the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which has helped guide national vaccine…
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3 years after abortion rights were overturned, contraception access is at risk
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization eliminated a nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion and returned the authority to regulate abortion to the states.
The Dobbs…
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Here are 3 marketing strategies I use to make Philadelphia healthier
In Philadelphia, the leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer and unintentional drug overdose. While some of these deaths are caused by things out of our control – like genetics – many are largely preventable.
Preventable…
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Cancer Patients Are Overmedicated To Enrich Health Systems
View of doctor’s office with equipment and iv drip bag on the steel pole.
Are patients being prescribed more medications not for their health, but to generate profit? A new economic study published in The Journal of Health Economics reveals…
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Recycled plastic is a toxic cocktail: Over 80 chemicals found in a single pellet
A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study with researchers from University of Gothenburg and Leipzig shows that recycled polyethylene plastic can leach chemicals into water causing impacts in the…
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From cursed tomb fungus to cancer cure: Aspergillus flavus yields potent new drug
Penn-led researchers have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound. After isolating a new class of molecules from Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop fungus linked to deaths in the excavations of ancient tombs, the researchers…
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