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The auto strike threatens a supply chain already weakened by Covid
The United Automobile Workers (UAW) has announced a strike against General Motors, Ford and Ford affiliate Stellantis on October 3. UAW President Shawn Fain has said that the union will pay the health benefits of striking workers. UAW has built up a strike fund of $835 million, enough to last about three months if all…
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The death toll has gone up due to flooding in the city of Derna
At least 3,000 bodies have been buried by Thursday morning after a flash flood in eastern Libya, the country’s Health Minister said. The floods have caused the displacement of over 30,000 people in Derna, as well as forcing many others to leave their homes in other eastern towns, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM)…
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There is a correlation between eye disease and Parkinson’s
A comparative study comparing the efficacy of convolutional neural networks (CHAN) and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for omic tasks with identical training and evaluation details has shown that CFP and OCT contain different levels of information. In three-year incidence prediction of ischaemic stroke,Found with OCT performs better than with OCT on both MEH-AlzEye and UK…
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Maternity care suffers as abortions Drive Obstetricians from Red States
Idaho, a state in the US, is the only jurisdiction in the country that bars abortions at any point in a pregnancy with just two exceptions. A federal judge has issued a temporary order permitting abortions in certain cases when the health of the woman is at risk. The American College of Obstetricians and obstetricians…
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Scientists are in a fight against cancer
The US National Cancer Institute (NCI) has the largest amount of grants awarded for cancer research in the world at $10.1 billion in 2018-19, according to Nature Index’s latest data. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are clear of other…
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A Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites is unconstitutional
The US federal judge who blocked a state-mandated age verification for online pornography said people will be “particularly concerned” about accessing controversial speech when the state government can log and track that access. Social media sites, however, would be exempt from the age restrictions because they likely do not meet the one-third sexual material standard,…
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The ruling was aimed at blocking the care ban
A transgender woman has filed a lawsuit against the Broome County, New York for housing her in jail consistent with her gender identity under a settlement with another transgender woman. Under the settlement with Jena Faith, the county agreed to respect an individual’s name and pronoun changes and provide gender-affirming care. Holland had filed the…
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There were more asthma sufferers in the emergency room due to the smoke
Asthma-associated emergency room visits were 17% higher than normal during the 19 days of wildfire smoke in late April and early August, according to a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Wildfire smoke led to about 10% more ER visits compared to other times of year. It also had lower…
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A rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals are caused by the abortion ban
A lawsuit against the state of Texas argues that language in the medical exception is vague and confusing, causing hospitals and doctors to delay care, which harms patients. Doctors can legally provide abortions in the state only if a patient is “in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major…
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The lawmaker is trying to expand abortion access in Texas
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a law that gives doctors leeway to provide abortions in Texas when a patient’s water breaks too early and for ectopic pregnancies. The law will allow abortions in Texas when a patient’s water break too early and for ectopic pregnancies. A lawsuit against the state argues that language in…
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850 people are still missing in Maui
A mental health official in the US state of Maui has said that the Maui wildfire was the worst mental health disaster in the state’s modern history. Maui’s chief mental health administrator, John Oliver, said that a fresh influx of mental health clinicians are being sought by state and federal officials. At least 18 people…
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The Tuohy family responded to the allegations of false adoption by Michael Oher
Michael Oher, a former US football player, has filed a lawsuit against Michael Lewis, the author of the book ‘The Blind Side’, and film producer Sean Tuohy, asking a court to dissolve the established conservatorship by Tuohys. In his petition, Oher said that the Tuohy family earned millions and profited off Oher’s name, image and…
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Lahaina isn’t suppose to burn like this any more
Native Hawaiian dry land plants are not necessarily more fire-resistant than native Hawaiian plants, Arizona State University ethnoecologistKatie Kamelamela said. The amount of dry fuel on the land is less important than how carefully land is cared for, Kamelamela added. This comes after a wildfire in Maui, Hawaii destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at…
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Pollution and fishing can help protect coral reefs, but not enough
Researchers compared data from 20 years of ocean data from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center to examine how factors like wastewater runoff and fishing intensity shaped the coral reef’s response to back-to-back coral bleaching events. The data included an unprecedented marine heatwave in 2015. They found that reefs with more fish, particularly herbivorous scrapers…
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The living descendants of enslavement are revealed through ancient DNA
Researchers at the Smithsonian’s College of Science, Harvard Medical School and the Catoctin Historical Society have used genetic data to identify the living relatives of African-Americans who were buried in the remains of 27 workers from the world’s first black coal mine in Washington DC. The researchers analysed the remains using genetic data from 23…
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Texas Medicaid has been dropping since April
The number of people on Medicaid in the US is likely to drop by a total of 20 million in the next few months due to the pandemic, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The number of people on Medicaid rose from 93 million in March to more than 95 million in…
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The United States is going to cool off after a historic heatwave in the Southwest
The US state of Arizona has reported 25 deaths due to heat as of July 21, with 249 more being investigated, the county’s Public Health Department said. Meanwhile, Phoenix saw its first major monsoon storm since June 15. The overnight low at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport fell under 90 degrees Fahrenheit for the first…
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Air quality in some cities can be worse because of fireworks
The US’ Canada Day celebration in Montreal was cancelled due to poor air quality. The event was supposed to take place with fireworks, but they were called off amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this month, La Jolla in California and Ocean Beach in Florida had switched to drone displays for Fourth of July celebrations after…
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Meet the first responders of the boom
US’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance for designing clinical trials of psychedelic therapies. It said that clinical trials have yet to answer several questions about efficacy, the safety of long-term repeat and optimal psychotherapy protocols. The FDA added that clinical trials have yet to answer questions about efficacy, the safety of long-term…
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The U.S. has an air quality alert out from Canada’s smoke
The US’ Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis and New York were among the 10 cities worldwide with worst air quality and pollution on Thursday, according to international air quality monitoring website IQAir.com. People with respiratory problems should avoid outdoor activities and people without respiratory problems should reduce their exposure to air pollution, according to AirNow agency.
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Scientists face challenges in the elimination of Malaria
Researchers from Germany and Japan claim they have isolated a vaccine candidate that could help prevent malaria. The vaccine, CIS42LS, is a monoclonal antibody against Plasmodium falciparum. The researchers are hopeful that the antibody could be administered subcutaneously in adults too. Malaria is the second-largest killer of kids in the world with an estimated one…
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How genetically modified mosquitoes could be eliminated from the world
A study has suggested that incorporating genetically modified mosquitoes into a mosquito genome could break malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but no gene-drive mosquitoes have yet been released in the wild. The study analysed the distribution of 22 species of mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa between 1898 and 2016 to assess the shifts in mosquito ranges…
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South Korea is becoming more anxious as Japan prepares to release wastewater
Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said that the water released into the ocean from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami “poses no health or environmental threat”. According to the watchdog, the amount of tritium in the water is less than what TEPCO says is the concentration of tritium in the…
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The hunter-gatherer lifestyle is good for the gut
Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, are developing scientific capabilities to support Diarrheal Disease research at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh. The program allows people from the centre who are coming for six months at a time to come for six months at a time.
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Growth is caused by Y chromosomal loss in cancer
Scientists have found that Y chromosome, which is often found in men, can be spontaneously lost during cell division. Researchers said they have also found that Y chromosome, which isOften found in men, can be spontaneously lost during cell division. A number of conditions, including heart disease and neurodegenerative conditions, can be related to the…