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WOX9: A jack of all trades
Over evolutionary time scales, a single gene may acquire different roles in diverging species. However, revealing the multiple hidden roles…
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Optum to acquire Atrius Health as it continues to grow physician network
UnitedHealth’s Optum plans to acquire Atrius Health, the largest independent physicians network in Massachusetts. The deal was first reported by The Boston…
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What Happens When You Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
By now, you’ve seen friends and loved ones post pictures of their COVID-19 vaccination cards on social media. Those posts…
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Determination of glycine transporter opens new avenues in development of psychiatric drugs
Glycine can stimulate or inhibit neurons in the brain, thereby controlling complex functions. Unraveling the three-dimensional structure of the glycine…
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This Popular Retinol-Infused Oil Is On Major Sale Today
Around the time I turned 30, I started noticing a crease below my left eye that would not go away…
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Democrats push FDA to regulate toxic metals in baby food after investigation finds high levels
Democrats push FDA to regulate toxic metals in baby food after investigation finds high levels. Chris Tobin | DigitalVision |…
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AHIP, BCBSA team to boost vaccine access for seniors
America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association are joining forces to boost access to vaccinations for…
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Do You Bleed After Sex? When to See a Doctor
When you have sex for the first time, it’s normal to expect some bleeding right away or even for a couple of days afterward.…
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Mississippi is lifting COVID restrictions while thousands of residents can’t even wash their hands
Get weekly climate politics updates from Grist Subscribe to The First 100 Texas’ experience of last month’s deadly winter storm…
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How to Clean Your Medical or Sports Brace — and Why It Matters
If your provider has recommended a medical or sports brace for an injury, you might be wondering how often to…
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House Energy and Commerce leaders unveil sweeping climate change legislation
Pallone, Environment Chair Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Energy Chair Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) unveiled the bill at a virtual press conference.…
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Best Buy’s Lively app now available on Apple Watch as retailer pushes further into healthcare
Best Buy Health is teaming up with Apple to make its Lively health and safety app available on the tech…
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Why Are Certain Foods so Addictive?
Are there certain foods you just can’t eat one (or one bite) of? Maybe you’ve been known to polish off…
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Coronavirus Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News This story also ran on USA Today. It can be republished for free. There’s a…
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Surviving college with cancer – Reliable UK
Aimee Comanici wanted a freshman year full of friends and football games. Instead, she spent her first year at UNC…
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Antarctica Is Running Out of Wilderness
One reason the status of a station is so hard to establish is that, with limited access and grueling conditions,…
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Facebook enabling Amazon land grabbing, deforestation, finds investigation
BBC Brasil, in a new TV documentary, penetrated deep within criminal networks illegally selling and deforesting conserved lands — even…
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The Possible Meat: A Brazilian farmer shows ranching can regenerate the Cerrado
Matheus Sborgia, a Brazilian chef, decided to bet on regenerative agriculture after inheriting his grandfather’s cattle ranch in the heart…
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Officials grill water utility over response to earlier Luke AFB spill | Cronkite News – Arizona PBS
Luke Air Force Base recently alerted nearby residents to the presence of chemicals PFOA and PFOS, which were used in…
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Why Salish Sea researchers are targeting superbugs in marine mammals
“Porpoises are always in the water, so it tells us that […] either it’s the genes in the porpoise, or…
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Walgreens expands digital health services to offer cancer screenings, mental health support
Walgreens is expanding its digital health partnerships so consumers can try on glasses virtually, take an at-home COVID-19 test and access…
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Who’s Going to Take Responsibility for Air Pollution in Texas?
The chemical disaster at the Intercontinental Terminals Company in March 2019 was the beginning of the end of AJ Cole’s…
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Dietary fats interact with grape tannins to influence wine taste
Wine lovers recognize that a perfectly paired wine can make a delicious meal taste even better, but the reverse is…
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Could plastic roads make for a smoother ride?
On a road into New Delhi, countless cars a day speed over tonnes of plastic bags, bottle tops and discarded…
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Accelerating gains in abdominal fat during menopause tied to heart disease risk
Women who experience an accelerated accumulation of abdominal fat during menopause are at greater risk of heart disease, even if…
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Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What’s the Cost for Locals?
Onboard the Lu Lao Yuan Yu 010 were seven Chinese officers and a crew of four Gambians and thirty-five Senegalese.…
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New, highly precise ‘clock’ can measure biological age
Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at the University of Cologne have developed an ‘aging clock’ that reads the…
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Toxic wasteland to fertile wetland: Transformation at former dumpsite complete at CVNP
BOSTON TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A once noxious and toxic dumping ground for the waste of Northeast Ohio’s heavy industry, a…
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Researchers discover that privacy-preserving tools leave private data anything but
Machine-learning (ML) systems are becoming pervasive not only in technologies affecting our day-to-day lives, but also in those observing them,…
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Bill seeks to ban the use of aerial herbicides in Maine forests
AUGUSTA — The Maine Legislature is considering a bill to ban aerial application of an herbicide used by large forest…
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Study reveals details of immune defense guidance system: Results could lead to better drugs used to fight inflammation
At the beginning of an immune response, a molecule known to mobilize immune cells into the bloodstream, where they home…
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High life satisfaction linked to better overall health
New research from UBC finds that higher life satisfaction is associated with better physical, psychological and behavioural health. The research,…
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Fort Nelson First Nation, municipality reject criticism of proposed wood pellet plant | The Narwhal
The Fort Nelson First Nation and the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality are voicing their support for a proposed wood pellet…
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Researchers illuminate potential precursors of blood cancers
Utah researchers report significant new insights into the development of blood cancers. In work published today in Blood Cancer Discovery,…
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Blackjewel’s Bankruptcy Filing Is a Harbinger of Trouble Ahead for the Plummeting Coal Industry – Inside Climate News
A federal bankruptcy judge in West Virginia could soon decide whether to allow the Blackjewel coal mining company, once the…
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There Could Enough Be COVID-19 Vaccines for All Adults By May—Here’s What to Expect
There will be enough COVID-19 vaccine doses for all adults in the U.S. sooner than expected, according to President Joe…
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Whoopi Goldberg Says Her Migraines Are ‘Like a Monster’
Whoopi Goldberg has had painful migraines for about 40 years now. And people don’t always understand the intense physical and…
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COVID-19 helped slash 2020’s carbon dioxide emissions. How will we keep it going?
The COVID-19 pandemic may have cut 2020’s global greenhouse gas emissions, but it won’t offer a lasting benefit unless similarly…
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Oscar Health brings in $1.4B in stock listing, eyes $7.9B valuation
Oscar Health raised $1.4 billion in its stock listing. The tech-enabled insurer listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange on…
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6 Ways to Cope With Having No Sense of Smell (From Coronavirus or Anything Else)
AbScent manages three moderated Facebook groups: one for people who became anosmic due to COVID-19 (with more than 23,000 members),…
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DispatchHealth brings in $200M to scale up in-home medical care
DispatchHealth has secured an additional $200 million in Series D financing, less than one year after closing a $135.8 million Series…
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New study gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects
A large proportion of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatment to…
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Planting trees helps fight climate change—but we need billions more seedlings
Planting trees has quickly emerged as a seemingly simple way to soak up carbon emissions. Everybody likes it: Environmentalists, politicians,…
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Humana, University of Houston launch value-based care specialization course
Humana and the University of Houston have teamed to launch a specialization course aimed at assisting health professionals in learning…
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Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes
Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to…
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Oregon’s Logging Industry Says It Can’t Afford New Taxes. But Prices Have Never Been Higher and Profits Are Soaring.
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‘It’s a slow murder’ for communities of color: NJ moves on environmental justice
Amanda Oglesby | Asbury Park Press Coronavirus NJ: The Sawtooth Group CEO talks about their future work environment plans Coronavirus…
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Key steps discovered in production of critical immune cell
WEHI researchers have uncovered a process cells use to fight off infection and cancer that could pave the way for…
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‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing
In 1992, 1,700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later,…
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Drug target could fight Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease
Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease are in the firing line after researchers identified an attractive therapeutic drug…
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