A recent study indicates that a U.S. ban on the use of tanning beds among minors would prevent thousands of…
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Geography, job risk should be factors in prioritizing SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations
When setting SARS-CoV-2 vaccine priorities, Canada should take a more nuanced approach that considers geographic and occupational risk exposures, as…
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12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the…
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Fungi are present in your lungs
The lungs were for a long time considered to be sterile in health, while in diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary…
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Canada-wide ban on menthol cigarettes leads to significant increases in quitting among smokers
Bans on menthol cigarettes across Canada from 2016 to 2017 led to a significant increase in the number of smokers…
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What’s the new coronavirus variant in India and how should it change the COVID response?
After genome sequencing of over 10,000 COVID-19 cases in India, researchers have discovered a new variant with two new mutations…
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Sex differences in brain in response to midlife stress linked to fetal stress exposures
Men and women whose mothers experienced stressful events during pregnancy regulate stress differently in the brain 45 years later, results…
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In California, Blue Shield’s Vaccination Takeover Fixes What Wasn’t Broken
In California’s Mendocino County, public health officials and community clinics say they have hit their vaccination stride. Despite the county’s…
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Middle schoolers with mental health problems pre-pandemic showed reduction in symptoms during early stages of pandemic
A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that…
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Researcher develops successful Zika virus vaccine in preclinical studies
UConn researcher Paulo Verardi, associate professor of pathobiology and veterinary science in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources,…
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