Opinion: Caring for Patients from Conflict Zones - undark.org
Dec 12, 2024 · I n recent months, I’ve taken a growing interest in reading the accounts of health care workers from conflict zones, areas of the world caught in a crossfire of warring factions, where men, women, and children bear the collateral damage wrought by bombs and bullets. Health care workers’ harrowing stories are some of the most unvarnished ones we have to hear, and as a physician myself, I ...
What Does It Mean to Be In the 'Post-Genomic' Age?
Dec 5, 2024 · A s 2025 approaches, we can expect the silver anniversary announcements on the completion of a draft of the human genome to be on their way. Many of the people who were involved are still alive and well known. Because of this, we will likely hear reflections from an ensemble cast of characters associated with the 2000 announcement, and those whose more contemporary work is linked to the study ...
Mixed Lessons from Intentionally Infecting People with Covid-19
Jan 1, 2025 · W hen the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, Christopher Chiu and other researchers wondered: Should they inject healthy people with the virus that caused the pandemic?. The idea sounded counterintuitive, but by carefully dosing individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in a controlled setting — like Chiu had been doing for more than a decade with seasonal flu and RSV — scientists could study how the virus ...
The Nobel Prizes Tell a Story About Scientific Discovery
Nov 7, 2024 · The debates around the profession should not distract us from the intrigue in the awarded science. The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was given to Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” This was the second consecutive year that it was awarded for a discovery involving RNA.
Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
Mar 6, 2024 · Back in 1991, after my only Son was born; I started studying about the reasoning behind mandatory water fluoridation and In 2006, I had the honor to meet with Paul Connett, PhD of the famed Fluoride Action Network, up in New York @ St Lawrence University at the 2nd Annual FAN Convention & got to also meet a lot of other people who where Toxicologists , Dr David Kennedy, DDS,Toxicologist among ...
Court Tells EPA to Consider Fluoride Risk, to Dentists’ Dismay
Oct 7, 2024 · A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the public from potential toxic effects of fluoride, which is added to the tap water of around 200 million Americans.. The decision is sure to invite further scrutiny of the contested science behind ...
People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. - Undark …
Mar 11, 2024 · In 2022, Gentry and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues added to that body of research, publishing a study in the journal Time & Society that showed the rate of fatal motor-vehicle accidents was highest for people living in the far west of a time zone, where the sun rises and sets at least an hour later than on the eastern side. Chronobiology research shows that longer evening light can ...
Book Review: How Much Can Animals Really Communicate?
Oct 11, 2024 · O ver the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, they solve problems, they communicate and form complicated relationships, investigators have found.
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Can New Mexico’s Ancient Water System Survive Climate Change?
Oct 9, 2024 · S antiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver the water that keeps his orchard thriving. Those irrigation ditches, scattered across the state and known as acequias (pronounced ah-SEH-kee-ahs), have endured for hundreds of years.