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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”.
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A polarization angle swings from a radio burst
The baseband recording system on CHIME/FRB is funded in part by a CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund grant to IHS. The baseband recording system on Effelsberg I is funded in part by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The research is also supported by a grant from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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The World Health Organization’s chief says he was near the scene of Israel’s strikes
An Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight, the Health Ministry said early Thursday. The Israeli military said it had targeted a group of militants. A reserve soldier was killed in fighting in central Gaza on Thursday, the military said. eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations…
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This molecule is key in slowing down the aging process
A study in Nature has found that a component of bile, lithocholic acid (LCA), triggers many of the age-defying and potentially lifespan-extending health benefits of low-calorie diets. LCA was found to extend lifespans of nematodes, fruit flies and mice when fed with lithocholic acid. The study also showed that 2 a day of added LCA…
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The CDC has confirmed the first US case of Severe Bird Flu
The US has confirmed its 61st case of bird flu since April. “There’s no indication the person spread bird flu to others, and the case doesn’t change the CDC’s assessment that the risk to the general public remains low,” the agency said. People who came in contact with animals that have been killed are now…
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The Internet has a fixation with Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione, the accused of killing health insurance executive Brian Thompson in US’ Pennsylvania, has become a meme in the country. Several stores are selling Luigi’s t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, stickers and other merchandise with phrases like ‘In this house, Luigi Mangione is the person who murdered Brian Thompson’. Mangione was captured after staff at McDonald’s…
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The UnitedHealthcare CEO killed was arrested in connection with the software developer
Luigi Mangione, the suspected shooter in the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was arrested on Monday after he was identified by a restaurant employee in Pennsylvania. An employee recognised Mangione from a photo of him that was taken by police at the restaurant, police said. Police say he was carrying a manifesto that…
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The police have arrested an app developer for shooting a CEO
Luigi Mangione, a man suspected of killing the CEO of New York City-based non-profit health care organisation Rise Against, has been arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, police said on Monday. Police said he was taken into custody on “unrelated charges”. Rise Against CEO Brian Thompson was killed last week by a gunman who shot…
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The Supreme Court’s Trans Health Care Case is based on normal things that make a big difference
The US Supreme Court is being asked to hear a challenge to a state law that bans gender-affirming medical treatments for minor children. The law bans access to treatment for kids who want to transition from their sex assigned at birth, but permits those same medications to be used when treating minors suffering from other…
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The Supreme Court’s Trans Health Care Case is about normal things that make a big difference
The Supreme Court has been hearing the case of a 15-year-old transgender girl from Tennessee, who is seeking gender-affirming medical treatments. The girl has sought hormone treatment for gender dysphoria since she was 3. Her parents said they couldn’t afford to pay for it and had to send their daughter to a clinic. Tennessee’s law…
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The FDA fought the e-liquid industry at the Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the approval of flavored e-cigarettes to be sold in the country. The FDA had stopped looking at the marketing of e-cigarettes to children because it concluded that there was no way to allow flavoured e-cigarettes to be sold without harming large numbers of children. According to the…
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The main Gaza crossing is being stopped because it is too dangerous
The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that northern Gaza is on the brink of famine as over 400,000 people remain in the area. According to the Health Ministry in Gaza Strip, over half of the 44,000 people killed by Israel were women and children. More than half of the WFP’s aid workers are women…
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millions of people are heading home to face snow and an artic blast
The US Air Force has declared a state of emergency in New York state and imposed travel bans along I-86 from the Pennsylvania state line to I-390 and other roads on Friday. The state has reported nearly 2 feet (61 cm) of snow in parts of New York, Ohio and Michigan, and 29 inches (73…