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2 children die from the disease in Texas, due to the trade war
A four-year-old US boy has died of measles, marking the second death due to the disease amid the ongoing trade tensions between the US and other countries. The boy’s family said he had been diagnosed with the disease when he was two months old. He is the fourth child who has died of measles in…
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2 children die from the disease in Texas, due to the trade war
A four-year-old US boy has died of measles, marking the second death due to the disease amid the ongoing trade tensions between the US and other countries. The boy’s family said he had been diagnosed with the disease when he was two months old. He is the fourth child who has died of measles in…
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On top of that, the HHS has been ordered to reduce spending on contracts
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts. The cuts apply to all divisions of HHS, which include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies. “These spending cuts will weaken public health in…
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Is social media bad for teens’ mental health?
A new study has found that small effects of “rude measures” like self-reported screen time are found in public-health studies. However, the researchers said that the type of small effects is not unusual in public- health studies based on crude measures, such as self-reported screen time. They argue that the effects are often masked when…
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Many federal health workers are losing their jobs
The US National Institute for Health recently cancelled over a hundred research grants funding HIV and AIDS research in the past few weeks, according to a Nature analysis. The CDC is losing its HIV prevention office as part of the restructuring. The Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and…
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There have been a lot of firings at federal health agencies
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired over 100 executives at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to Nature. The firings include several NIH directors as well as executives at the Food and Drug Administration. “These reductions in the workforce will have a profound impact on key NIH administrative functions…[and]…will…
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Thousands of jobs were cut by the Trump administration
The US Health and Human Services (HHS) has said it plans to cut 20,000 jobs as part of an effort to cut $2 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. “This is about getting rid of waste, inefficiency and duplication,” it said. “The American people shouldn’t have to pay for this destruction of our…
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The antibiotic targets thebacterial ribosome
Researchers at McMaster University in Canada have discovered an antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria, even strains resistant to commercial drugs. Further rounds of screening, genome sequencing and structural analysis revealed that the bacterium produces a molecule which belongs to a group of peptides that form a lasso-shaped knot. The molecule…
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Immune cells bandage wounds
neutrophils play an important role in wound healing and elasticity of the skin of wild-type and TgfbrN mice. They were characterised by atomic force microscopy and were found to be present in skin of wild-type control and TgfbrN mice. The skin of wild-type control and TgfbrN mice was characterized through hematoxylin-eosin staining.
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How bad could it get with measles in the US?
Researchers from Denmark found no difference in autism diagnoses between vaccinated and unvaccinated children during a study of over six lakh children born in the country between 1999 and 2010. The researchers combined those data on measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines with data on autism spectrum disorder diagnoses. Denmark has one of the highest…
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It is an attack on science everywhere in Trump 2.0
Thousands of US scientists held a protest against President Donald Trump’s executive orders on research funding at federal agencies on February 20, the day that Trump took office. The protest, which was attended by 250 students and researchers, was the first of its kind in the US. Scientists had gathered outside the US Department of…
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The rotating crown is new to the watch
OnePlus has announced the OnePlusWatch 3 with sleep tracking and 60S health check-in feature. The OnePlusWatch3 will be available for sale in India from March 9. The OnePlusWatch 3 comes with a bicym battery that can last up to 120 hours on a single charge. Further, the 60S health check-in feature will let users get…
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WhyMitch McConnell voted against RFK Jr
US President Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services, Edward Kennedy, was confirmed by the US Senate on Wednesday. Kennedy has vowed to fire 600 researchers from the National Institute for Health (NIH) and order its work to be done on “the root causes” of chronic diseases. He also said he would give NIH…
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There was a report that said that the DEI staff was Blasted
The US government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed a 15% cap on research overhead costs for new and existing grants, in order to “ensure that as many funds as possible go towards direct scientific research costs rather than administrative overhead”. Indirect costs are paid by the NIH for scientists’ salaries and equipment purchases for…
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The foreign aid cuts exempt HIV/AIDS Relief from the DOGE
The US National Institute for Health (NIH), the world’s largest public health research agency, is under a hiring freeze and restrictions on new research on its campus amid the partial government shutdown. Earlier, President Donald Trump’s administration imposed a blackout on the NIH and other health agencies and banned travel. It also halted recruiting new…
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Patchy regulations can affect the quality of your weed supply
A study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found there are over 600 contaminants in cannabis that is regulated across some 30 US states that had legalized cannabis at that time. The study said the risk of getting brain harmed due to cannabis is much lower if the product has been tested…
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White House response raises confusion about federal funding freeze
The Trump administration has reversed its decision to stop federal funding of aid to healthcare, climate protection and other programs for 30 days. The order was put on hold by a judge after groups including the American Public Health Association sued. The order’s source of authority was not explained, the groups had claimed in their…
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Millions of people will die in Europe without swift action on the extreme heat
A new study has said that “extreme heat” will kill millions of people in Europe without a rapid action on climate change. The study, which was co-authored by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine biologist Pierre Masselot, said that extreme heat will kill millions of people in Europe without rapid action on climate change.
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The policy banning aid to groups abroad that give abortions is re-enacted by Trump
A new study has found that the US’ Mexico City policy produced an increase in a country’s typical abortion rate of 40% during the period when the policy was in place. The researchers found a 14% decrease in the use of contraception and a 12% increase in pregnancies. Because the policy prohibits even discussion of…
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CDC updates some important health data as well as others, but not all of them
The US government has cancelled research-grant reviews, travel and trainings for scientists inside and outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after President Donald Trump took office. The cancellation comes after an “external pause” in external communications by the US Department of Health and Human Services on January 21. The NIH is the world’s largest…
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Mitochondrial swap from cancer to immune cells can cause damage totumour defences
Researchers claim to have discovered that “alien mitochondria” can steal T cell energy from healthy TILs. They found that TILs that had imbibed alien mitochondrial energy showed signs of T cell exhaustion, loss of cancer-killing potential. “My first thought was that this sounds crazy, like science fiction,” Holden Maecker, an immunologist at Stanford University, who…
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These therapies are new and could change women’s health
A review of a study on the effects of hormones on women’s body found inconsistencies in the results. While the study found that there was a lower risk of heart disease and death associated with hormone therapy, it revealed there were inconsistencies in the findings, such as a lowered risk of heart cancer for those…
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The new definition excludes morbidly obese people from focusing on health
A new category of obesity has been recommended based on objective measures of illness. The first category is called ‘clinical obesity’, for people who already have a chronic disease associated with obesity. The second category is pre-clinical obesity and it means that a person has an increased risk of developing a health condition due to…
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What are the Santa Ana winds doing to the LA wildfires?
As the wildfires in California continue to rage, a climatologist from UCLA said, “This situation is likely to get worse over the next couple of days.” Park Williams, who heads aUCLA research group called HyFiVeS, said that the current scenario is an “unbelievable sequence of extreme climate and weather events over the past two years”.