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What Does a Public Health Scientist Do

The experience of data analysis varies a lot based on the purpose of the work, but the main goal of observational and experimental studies in public health is to draw conclusions about causality. Data can reveal … See more

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My Doctor Told Me I Have High Cholesterol, Now What

WebDespite lack of concrete evidence of the effects of dietary cholesterol, it is known that reducing saturated fats (often present in foods high in cholesterol) is …

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Will GMOs Hurt My Body

Webby Megan L. Norris. Summary: As the prevalence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) continues to rise, there has been an increasing public interest for …

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All About That Mucus: How it keeps us healthy

WebMucus is a protective substance that’s excreted from multiple areas of the body, such as the mouth, sinuses, throat, lungs, stomach, and intestines ( Figure 1 ). …

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“Nature itself is the best physician”

Webby Jessica Schiff. figures by Rebecca Senft. For millennia, people have held to the notion that spending time in nature is healing and restorative. Hippocrates stated …

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Health Data Privacy: Updating HIPAA to match today’s technology

WebFigure 1: History of US health data privacy law. HIPAA has been updated several times since it was initially passed in 1996. To start, even though it was passed in …

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A Stressful New Decade: The latest information on how stress …

WebKevin Dervishi is a PhD candidate studying cancer genetics in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard Medical School. Opinions and additional …

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The Mental Health Crisis in Science

WebThe COVID-19 pandemic also, unsurprisingly, worsened the situation, with a more than 10% jump in the number of students with depression and anxiety symptoms. …

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How Pain Led to an Opioid Epidemic: Learning from the past to …

Webby Beatrice Awasthi figures by Tal Scully . Opioid use was a crisis in the United States long before the COVID-19 pandemic—among the 76,000 deaths due to drug overdoses in the …

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Biodiversity and human health

WebThe more tangible and immediate reasons to protect ecosystems and genetic diversity become clear when one examines the direct implications for human …

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Bilingualism: Start early, and earn all your benefits!

WebOne of the most recent and striking discoveries is that bilingualism may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease involves memory loss and other …

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Something in the Sewage: What watching our wastewater can tell …

WebWastewater surveillance is a powerful tool to detect and track infectious disease transmission, as demonstrated by the monitoring of COVID-19 levels. …

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Can Calorie Restriction Extend Your Lifespan

WebAt first glance, calorie restriction is a counter-intuitive way to approach longevity. Here, we use this term to refer to up to a 50% reduction of calories from a …

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Can Microdosing Psychedelics Improve Your Mental Health

WebFor example, in one international survey, 79% of respondents reported improvements in their mental health after microdosing. In other surveys, participants …

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Genetically Modified Organisms: The good, the bad, and the future

WebGenetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are some of the more recent and controversial tools that have been developed. According to the companies and scientists …

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Liquid-within-liquid compartments: a groundbreaking discovery in …

WebThe existence of liquid-like cellular compartments within the liquid environment of cells has an intuitive explanation from the macro world: combinations of …

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Biodiversity Loss Can Increase the Spread of Zoonotic Diseases

WebBiodiversity is a measure of the variety of organisms that live in a habitat. When animal species are lost from a habitat, disease transmission in that habitat tends …

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A Second Brain: How microbes in your gut may affect your body …

Web2. Gut microbes may also stimulate immune cells to produce cytokines that could travel through the blood to the brain. 3. Gut microbes produce metabolites that when released …

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A New Way to Beat the Heat: Scientists Develop an ‘Elastocaloric

WebElastocaloric devices produce cooling through four steps as described in Figure 2: (1) the application of an external force increases the material’s internal temperature; …

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Later school start times may help improve school performance

WebWe can all relate to the dreaded early morning alarm, and the oh-so tempting snooze button. Sufficient sleep is critical for health, cognitive function, and overall quality …

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