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‘High on the Hog’ Celebrates Black Contributions to Global Food and Culture | Civil Eats
In the first episode of Netflix’s new docuseries, High on the Hog, host Stephen Satterfield meets a woman who runs…
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Are Salt Substitutes a Healthy Way to Lower Your Sodium Intake?
It’s hard not to acquire a taste for salt when it’s hidden in so many foods (especially the processed foods popular in America). So…
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This scorecard will tell you the environmental impact of your new H&M T-shirt
If you browse for a shirt on H&M’s website, you might now see a new scorecard—a little like a nutrition…
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Schools spent millions on high-tech air purifiers. But are they actually making things worse?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a…
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Chutes & Ladders—Obama-era CMS vet joins Babylon Health; UnityPoint Health names Sioux City regional head
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…
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How we can help coral and seabirds survive a warming world
Global warming is not just increasing average temperatures on land, it’s heating up the oceans as well. As marine heat…
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J.D. Power: Telehealth use boosts members’ satisfaction with health plans
Increased telehealth use under the pandemic is encouraging members to engage more with their health plans, according to a new…
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How to Get Back to Exercising After Joint Replacement Surgery
Hip and knee replacements can get you back to an active life in no time. Know this, though: You are…
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Opioids like ‘Lean’ Permeate Hip-Hop Culture, but Dangers Are Downplayed
Nykerrius Williams knows about the close relationship between hip-hop and opioid use. Williams, 27, an independent rapper from Gibsland, Louisiana,…
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E.P.A. to Modify Trump-Era Limits on States’ Ability to Oppose Energy Projects
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday said it planned to revise a Trump-era rule that limited the ability of states…
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Caring for an Aging Nation
Lydia Zuraw, Kaiser Health News and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News USE OUR CONTENT This story can republished for…
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How Many People Die When Polluters Exceed Their Limits?
Measuring air quality is inherently a measure of excess—any amount of toxic nitrogen oxides, ground-level ozone, and fine particulate matter…
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Ottawa dollars can save B.C.’s old-growth forests
A coalition of conservationists is urging the B.C. government to use federal funds to end the province’s new war in…
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Technologies to slow climate change could give 20% population growth in northern Sweden
Construction work is in full swing at Northvolt in Skellefteå, where large-scale battery production for electric vehicles is set to…
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How the Texas Legislature could change the state’s power grid this session
Most Texans will likely have higher charges on their power bills for years to come to cover gas utilities’, electric…
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The Texas Grid Came Close to an Even Bigger Disaster During February Freeze
The Texas electric grid came within five minutes of a complete collapse in mid-February. The problem could have been much worse. A…
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Drugs, fire, settlers poised to wipe out one of Paraguay’s most biodiverse forests
San Rafael National Park/Proposed National Reserve encompasses one of the most unique, biodiverse and threatened forests in Paraguay. Fires in…
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Brazil’s Xingu River Basin feels the heat from Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric
An area six times larger than New York City has been destroyed by loggers, land grabbers and illegal miners from…
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Blink Charging Taps Cash Pile in Electric Car Bet
Blink Charging Co. is using cash acquired in a recent stock offering to expand its network of charging stations ahead…
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How more inclusive lab meetings lead to better science
A new paper, published recently in PLOS Computational Biology by a team including UMass Amherst researchers, seeks to help scientists…
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Key early steps in gene expression captured in real time: Capturing how RNA polymerase enzymes kick off transcription
On scales too small for our eyes to see, the business of life happens through the making of proteins, which…
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How a Frenzy for Echinoderms Exposed and Entrenched Inequities in a Fishing Community | Hakai Magazine
Article body copy For Ann Singeo, being in the ocean has always been a way of life. Growing up…
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Global microbiome study discovers thousands of new species, maps urban antimicrobial resistance and reveals new drug candidates
About 12,000 bacteria and viruses collected in a sampling from public transit systems and hospitals around the world from 2015…
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Think like a virus to understand why the pandemic isn’t over yet – and what the US needs to do to help other countries
Kill every human on the planet. This is the first assignment I give students in my public health classes, filled…
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‘Cataclysmic day’ for oil companies sparks climate hope
A “cataclysmic day” for three major oil companies in which investors rebelled over climate fears and a court ordered fossil…
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Artificial neurons recognize biosignals in real time
Current neural network algorithms produce impressive results that help solve an incredible number of problems. However, the electronic devices used…
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Miami’s new ‘chief heat officer’ urges US to fight the ‘silent killer’ of climate crisis
As the first official appointed in the U.S. to focus on heatwaves, Miami’s chief heat officer is warning about the…
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CMS delays requirement for drugmakers to offer multiple best prices for Medicaid value-based deals
The Biden administration has delayed for six months the implementation of a Trump-era rule aimed at incentivizing the use of…
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When cancer cells ‘put all their eggs in one basket’
Normal cells usually have multiple solutions for fixing problems. For example, when DNA becomes damaged, healthy white blood cells can…
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Blue Shield of California, Gemini Health see $20M in savings through drug cost reduction partnership
Blue Shield of California has seen more than $20 million in drug cost savings through its partnership with Gemini Health…
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Escape from oblivion: How the brain reboots after deep anesthesia: Innovative experiment demonstrates the resilience of the healthy human brain despite deep general anesthesia
Millions of surgical procedures performed each year would not be possible without the aid of general anesthesia, the miraculous medical…
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Republican infrastructure counteroffer slashes Biden’s electric vehicle and climate spending
Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, left, speaks as Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, center,…
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Founders of Flatiron Health, Hims & Hers back $20M seed round in startup targeting chronic pain
A digital health startup has launched a new platform to provide opioid-free pain relief with the aim of reaching the 50…
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Causal mechanism of link between cancer and obesity
A review study led by Maria D. Sanchez-Pino, PhD, an assistant research professor in the departments of Interdisciplinary Oncology and…
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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Return of the Public Option
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. You can also listen on on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts…
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Children’s Hospital Colorado sounds alarm on ‘unsustainable’ spike in pediatric mental health cases
A children’s hospital system in Colorado is pleading for increased state and federal government assistance to treat an overwhelming spike…
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Sometimes, even 3-year-olds just want to fit in with the group: As young children develop they start to go along with the crowd, not just follow the leader
What makes preschoolers eat their veggies? Raise their hand? Wait their turn? “Because I say so” is a common refrain…
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Climate Activists Defeat Exxon in Push for Clean Energy
HOUSTON — Big Oil was dealt a stunning defeat on Wednesday when shareholders of Exxon Mobil elected at least two…
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‘Rescue mutations’ that suppress harmful DNA changes could shed light on genetic disorders
New insights into the ability of DNA to overcome harmful genetic changes have been discovered by scientists at the Wellcome…
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Industry Voices—Delay in codifying ‘reasonable and necessary’ undermines healthcare enforcement
In a rule issued in the waning days of the last administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sought…
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Suficiente para arruinar el descanso: le cobran $10,322 por un estudio del sueño
Los ronquidos de José Mendoza eran malos, pero para su esposa Nancy era peor cuando dejaba de respirar. El repentino…
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A COVID-fighter’s guide to T cells: New review shows how T cells target more than 1,400 sites on SARS-CoV-2
In a new paper, scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) bring together research findings from COVID-19 researchers around…
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President Biden Wants To Replace All Lead Pipes. Flint Has Lessons To Share
Harold Harrington is a master plumber. Fixing people’s pipes is what he does. But it was something he found in…
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A new data map will help track systemic health disparities across the country
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionately devastating toll on communities of color and exposed existing healthcare disparities. But efforts…
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Truepill launches virtual primary care, diagnostics services to flesh out its white label digital pharmacy platform
San Mateo, California-based digital pharmacy startup Truepill is building upon last year’s funding momentum with the formal launch of two…
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Stripe funds 6 new ideas to suck carbon out of the atmosphere
The online payment software company Stripe announced on Wednesday that it is spending $2.75 million to support six early-stage carbon…
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DOJ charges telehealth executives, doctors with exploiting COVID-19 to rake up $143M in fraud
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged 14 people, including telehealth executives and physicians, for alleged healthcare fraud schemes that exploited…
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East Coast AGs criticize Louisiana plastics plant; local leaders say it’s none of their business
Raising concerns about “environmental justice,” five Democratic attorneys general for New York, the District of Columbia and three other states…
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In California’s Drier Future, What’s the Best Investment for Securing Water?
Experts agree that cities need diverse water supplies, but desalination plants remain controversial. May 26, 2021 Once again, California is…
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Hospitals decry public option as top Dems seek feedback on a potential bill
Top Democrats in Congress have issued a request for information on a potential public option bill, and hospitals are already…
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