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Category: 5. Health
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Legal Cannabis and Workers’ Compensation: A Policy Perspective
What impact does cannabis have on workers’ compensation benefits? This is what a recent study conducted by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) hopes to address as a team of researchers…
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Lack of Sleep Increases Cardiovascular Disease Risk
A new study published in the journal Biomarker Research has shown that insufficient sleep, even over relatively short time periods, can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The study, which had a…
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FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts
A decades-old dental health treatment may soon vanish in the United States. Access to fluoride supplements, prescribed to prevent cavities in children without access to fluoridated water, is now under threat from a controversial move by…
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Two HIV vaccine trials show proof of concept for pathway to broadly neutralizing antibodies
A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional approaches haven’t worked — largely because HIV…
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Particles carrying multiple vaccine doses could reduce the need for follow-up shots
Around the world, 20 percent of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths each year from diseases that are preventable by vaccination. About half of those underimmunized children received at least one vaccine dose but…
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World’s largest bat organoid platform paves the way for pandemic preparedness
Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world’s most dangerous viruses, including those responsible for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2),…
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Key player in childhood food allergies identified: Thetis cells
A decade ago, a clinical trial in the U.K. famously showed that children who were exposed to peanuts in the early months of life had reduced risk of developing a peanut allergy compared with children who avoided peanuts.
Now, researchers at…
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Asians made humanity’s longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas
An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and Asian School of the Environment (ASE) has shown…
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Dismantling Medicine’s White Wall Of Silence
Medicine’s White Wall is harmful in more ways than one.
In law enforcement, the “Blue Wall of Silence” refers to the unwritten code among officers that discourages reporting a colleague’s misconduct. The message is clear: if you come…
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