In the four years after the border wall height was increased from 17 feet to 30 feet along the US-Mexican border, drowning deaths of migrants in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego increased by 3200%, according to ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Fun in the summer often means kids spending time in the water, whether at a pool, the beach, a lake or river. A pediatric safety expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) stresses proper training and supervision ...
May 24, 2013
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Close to half of America's tap water contains PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. These "forever chemicals" are in thousands of products, from clothing and cosmetics to cleaning products, and are linked ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Exposure to a large-scale disaster, such as a tsunami, impacts population health over a decade later. A new study by an inter-disciplinary team of researchers in the United States and Indonesia has found that women who lived ...
Oct 16, 2023
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In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico released millions of gallons of crude petroleum into the water creating slicks miles wide. To break up those slicks, disaster response ...
Jun 8, 2022
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An outbreak of mumps has hit a community of Marshall Islanders in northwest Arkansas particularly hard, according to health officials.
Dec 20, 2016
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Sodium in the form of table salt helps make French fries a tasty snack and bacon a delicious indulgence, but it is also a vital nutrient for the proper functioning of our bodies, playing a role in the movement of your muscles, ...
Nov 20, 2023
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A crew are rowing across the Indian Ocean to shake up our understanding of Parkinson's disease—and break a world record while they're at it.
Jun 25, 2018
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(Medical Xpress)—The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda, according to a team of researchers who are the first to demonstrate that these brain infections are linked ...
Jan 4, 2013
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An extraordinary opportunity to study memory and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a group of Air Transat passengers who experienced 30 minutes of unimaginable terror over the Atlantic Ocean in 2001 has resulted in ...
Aug 13, 2014
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