When Laura Samuel talks about food insecurity, she often draws upon her own experiences spending part of her youth in a mobile home in coastal Maine, one of six children in a hardworking family that often faced tough choices ...
Oct 4, 2023
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Gentrification can have a ripple effect on communities. While it can improve certain conditions in typically low-income areas, rising housing costs can displace residents, causing social disruption and other downstream effects.
Sep 20, 2023
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Scientists have used genomics to reveal distinct sexual networks for syphilis transmission, defined geographically or by sexual preference, among a background of wider circulation in England. They also show a presence of ...
Sep 15, 2023
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The classic computer science adage "garbage in, garbage out" lacks nuance when it comes to understanding biased medical data, argue computer science and bioethics professors from MIT, Johns Hopkins University, and the Alan ...
Sep 14, 2023
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In a trio of papers appearing in Nature on Sept. 13, 2023, researchers offer the most comprehensive look yet at how malnutrition affects growth in the first two years of life, underscoring a devastating reality for millions ...
Sep 13, 2023
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The lethal mixture of xylazine and fentanyl, also known as Tranq dope, may sound unfamiliar to many, but its impact is harming people who use drugs nationwide.
Sep 8, 2023
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There's been a striking 79% increase in new cases of cancer among the under 50s around the world over the past three decades (1990–2019), finds research published in the open access journal BMJ Oncology.
Sep 5, 2023
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Wearing masks, social-distancing, staying home: Those preventive measures were least likely to be followed by Canadians who were least informed about how best to stop the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Aug 24, 2023
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Many websites selling home fertility tests, also known as the "egg timer" test, directly to consumers are making misleading claims about their usefulness, a University of Sydney led study has found.
Aug 22, 2023
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Over recent decades, there was a large variation in cyclone-related excess deaths by hurricane, state, county, year, and social vulnerability for counties in the United States, with 83% of hurricane-related deaths occurring ...
Aug 16, 2023
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