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Less than half of the YouTube videos on allergic rhinitis provide useful information, study finds

Want to build a spice rack for your kitchen? Pull up a YouTube video to see how it might be done. Got allergic rhinitis (hay fever) symptoms that just won't quit? Don't do a random YouTube search because the information you find there has a good chance of being inaccurate.

10 Aug 2022

NSF-funded institute at Georgetown University aims to advance research around viral emergence

The National Science Foundation has awarded Georgetown University $12.5 million to lead a global team of scientists in establishing a collaborative institute designed to advance research and education around viral emergence -- the process of viruses jumping from animals to humans.

10 Aug 2022

Rapper Fat Joe says no one is making sure hospitals post their prices

Rapper Fat Joe takes on hospital industry executives in an advertisement, contending that many hospitals are disobeying a law that requires them to publicly post the prices they charge cash-paying patients and insurance companies for every service they offer.

10 Aug 2022

Newsom pins political rise on abortion, guns, and health care

Gavin Newsom is fed up with Republicans for attacking abortion rights and blocking gun regulations — and with his own Democratic Party for failing to boldly and brashly take on the conservative right and push a progressive agenda.

10 Aug 2022

EPA action boosts grassroots momentum to reduce toxic ‘forever chemicals’

The intake pumps that once drew 6 million gallons of water a day from the Oostanaula River now sit mostly dormant in this northwestern Georgia city.

10 Aug 2022

‘American Diagnosis’: ‘We need to be at the table’: Native-led medical research aims to rebuild trust

Mending broken trust may be a first step for investigators who want to increase the participation of Native people in medical research.

10 Aug 2022

Understanding the emotions behind memories

In this interview, we speak to Professor Kay Tye about her latest research into memories and how we can start to understand the emotions behind them.

10 Aug 2022

New study quantifies the “woodwork effect” in medical insurance

Not everyone who qualifies for health insurance signs up for it. Consider Medicaid, the national health insurance plan for low-income people. Across the U.S., about 14 percent of eligible adults and 7 percent of eligible children are not enrolled in Medicaid.

9 Aug 2022

Study outlines strategies people with visual impairment use to navigate social challenges

A recent study highlights the range of uncomfortable situations people living with blindness or visual impairment encounter due to interpersonal communication challenges, and outlines strategies people with visual impairment use to navigate these situations.

9 Aug 2022

Gen Zs with Down syndrome have high aspirations and a great zest for life, study reveals

Young adults living with Down syndrome have high aspirations and a great zest for life according to an Australian first study by researchers from The University of Queensland.

9 Aug 2022

€15.7 million Australia-France doctoral training network to be led by RMIT's European hub

The €15.7 million (AU$22.8 million) network will be led by RMIT's European hub in Barcelona – RMIT Europe – and involve 37 universities across France and Australia.

9 Aug 2022

Simulation sessions improve the confidence, preparedness of medical students in providing care for dying patients

Simulated experience of caring for a dying patient and their family can improve the confidence and preparedness of medical students to provide such care, according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) published in the BMJ Journal of Supportive and Palliative Care.

9 Aug 2022

New CDC Vital Signs report: Less than a third of people diagnosed with hepatitis C get timely treatment

Hepatitis C can cause advanced liver disease, liver cancer, and death and affects millions in the United States.

9 Aug 2022

CDC and Task Force for Global Health to co-host 11th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Task Force for Global Health will co-host in person the 11th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases August 7-10, 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotel in Atlanta, GA.

9 Aug 2022

UNH researchers receive $2.8 million NIH grant to develop and test social assistive robots

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire will receive a five-year grant totaling $2.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and test social assistive robots to aid in the care of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in the comfort of their own homes.

9 Aug 2022

Study finds fewer synthetic cannabinoid poisonings in states with cannabis legalization

Synthetic cannabinoids, dangerous designer drugs known by such street names as K2, Spice or AK-47, appear to have less appeal in states that have legalized the natural form of cannabis.

9 Aug 2022

Covid sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox

The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in early detection of covid-19 outbreaks are being adapted for use in monitoring the startling spread of monkeypox across the San Francisco Bay Area and some other U.S. communities.

9 Aug 2022

After ‘a lot of doors shut in our face,’ crusading couple celebrate passage of burn pit bill

The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he'd inhaled from the 10-acre burn pit at Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq.

9 Aug 2022

Inflation problem in the U.S. impacts Black families more than many other Americans

A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll shows that at a time when households across the U.S. widely report experiencing serious problems from inflation, Black Americans are substantially more likely than whites to report they are currently having serious financial problems in this period (55% to 38%).

8 Aug 2022

CDC identifies bacteria that cause rare melioidosis in domestic environmental samples

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified for the first time in domestic environmental samples the bacteria that causes a rare and serious disease called melioidosis.

8 Aug 2022

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Less than half of the YouTube videos on allergic rhinitis provide useful information, study finds

NSF-funded institute at Georgetown University aims to advance research around viral emergence

Rapper Fat Joe says no one is making sure hospitals post their prices

Newsom pins political rise on abortion, guns, and health care

EPA action boosts grassroots momentum to reduce toxic ‘forever chemicals’

‘American Diagnosis’: ‘We need to be at the table’: Native-led medical research aims to rebuild trust

Understanding the emotions behind memories

New study quantifies the “woodwork effect” in medical insurance

Study outlines strategies people with visual impairment use to navigate social challenges

Gen Zs with Down syndrome have high aspirations and a great zest for life, study reveals

€15.7 million Australia-France doctoral training network to be led by RMIT's European hub

Simulation sessions improve the confidence, preparedness of medical students in providing care for dying patients

New CDC Vital Signs report: Less than a third of people diagnosed with hepatitis C get timely treatment

CDC and Task Force for Global Health to co-host 11th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases

UNH researchers receive $2.8 million NIH grant to develop and test social assistive robots

Study finds fewer synthetic cannabinoid poisonings in states with cannabis legalization

Covid sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox

After ‘a lot of doors shut in our face,’ crusading couple celebrate passage of burn pit bill

Inflation problem in the U.S. impacts Black families more than many other Americans

CDC identifies bacteria that cause rare melioidosis in domestic environmental samples

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