In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at New Mexico’s plans to build a quantum computing ecosystem, a startup that can take methane and turn it into clean fuel for cheap, shocking your immune system for faster healing and more. To…
Category: 5. Health
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HHS Is Not Releasing Study On Alcohol And Its Harms, Not MAHA Priority
The federal government won’t release a major study on alcohol and its health harms, signaling MAHA doesn’t prioritize it.
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Despite mounting evidence that connect drinking to multiple diseases and high levels of morbidity and mortality, the…
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Florida’s Vaccine Rollback Would Put Children and Communities at Risk
The immunization section is seen at the Orange County Health Department on May 6, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of measles cases in the United States as of May 6, 2019 has…
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Are Our children and Senior Citizens At Risk?
I was shocked and saddened when I read about the potential new vaccine policy in Florida yesterday. As a pediatrician, I’ve seen many sick children over the years, many unvaccinated and struck by diseases that could have been prevented.
I…
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Is TikTok Making Us Sicker? Inside Medical Misinformation
Medical misinformation: half of ADHD TikToks mislead; your feed isn’t your doctor.
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The priciest thing in American healthcare right now isn’t a biologic or a breakthrough device. It’s bad information. Medical misinformation from social…
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Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws – new research
Infant mortality has risen in states that enacted tighter abortion restrictions in the wake of the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. This occurs for newborns – those less than a day old – as well as older infants –…
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Colorado has one of the nation’s highest suicide rates − an ER doctor explains how to bring it down
Colorado has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, at 20.9 per 100,000 in 2023. Of the state’s 940 gun deaths that year, nearly 72% were by suicide.
Nationally, firearms are the leading cause of death for American youth ages 1…
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Kennedy hearing deepens crisis over dismantling of CDC leadership
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation’s – if not the world’s – premier public health organization, is mired in a crisis that not only threatens Americans’ health but also its very survival as a…
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What Florida Is Doing To Vaccine Mandates Is Sick
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and Governor Ron DeSantis are moving to end vaccine mandates for schoolchildren in Florida. (Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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What Florida is doing to vaccine mandates…
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Scientists watch Parkinson’s protein drill holes in brain cells
A toxic protein forms dynamic pores in the membranes of brain cells – and that may be the key to understanding how Parkinson’s disease develops. This is the conclusion of a new study from Aarhus University, where researchers have developed an…
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