Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportions of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found.
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Wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES)—the analysis of water and environmental samples like sewage to enable early, noninvasive tracking of biological and chemical markers across a population—is a powerful and increasingly ...
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Age 45: You've made it to middle age, you're ideally entering your prime earning years and, if you're like most adults, your doctor tells you that it's time to consider your first colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer.
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From the first hint of cold winter mornings, supermarkets and pharmacies begin heavy marketing to coax us to stock up on vitamin C to get through cold and flu season.
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Famines were once thought to be fading into history. But after devastating crises in places such as Somalia and Sudan—and with levels of extreme food insecurity rising worldwide—researchers are asking whether a better understanding ...
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Bedbugs are sometimes called the vampires of the insect world—hiding during the day and coming out at night to feast on human blood. Generations of children have been told: "Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite."
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Recent Cyclospora outbreaks have renewed public attention to foodborne parasites, but they also highlight a broader reality: These diseases continue to affect millions of people around the world and remain a significant global ...
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A good way to follow the health of a nation is to glance at what is known as period life expectancy. This calculates how long a person born today would live if the current death rates remained exactly the same for the rest ...
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What do "epigenetic clocks" actually measure? These lab tests have become popular tools for studying biological aging, or how the body's cellular function changes at a faster or slower rate than expected. However, the underlying ...
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AI-based "tissue clocks" can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Ludwig Boltzmann ...
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