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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Tweet by NPR on Twitter

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    NPR ⁦‪@NPR‬⁩ Researchers say diseases that spread between humans and animals, like COVID and monkeypox, will become increasingly commonp...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

‘Very Harmful’ Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks

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'Very Harmful' Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks Major data gaps, the result of decades of underinvestment in public he...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Her Discovery Changed the World. How Does She Think We Should Use It?

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…What about the ethics of all those gene-editing possibilities? That's something you've been talking about for years now, but what w...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

A huge side benefit of the new climate bill

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Air pollution sickens and kills millions every year. Here’s how the new measure will help tackle the problem. ...the law will avert heart a...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor

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Doctors are people too. "…the word 'doctor' comes from the Latin 'to teach.' By writing stories, we as doctors aim to t...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Time for a national public health system

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Since the early months of the covid-19 pandemic, it's been clear that the U.S. public health system needs major improvements. Now, a  bl...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

BCSP/HT Change Your Mind

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Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics   Friends, readers, viewers,  I’m happy to share that  the four-part Netflix series  based o...
Friday, July 8, 2022

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  CRISPR cure for sickle cell nearly 100% effective after three years Newly released data shows nearly universal efficacy with no drop...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Authors Michael Lewis and Malcolm Gladwell | C-SPAN.org

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Michael Lewis on The Premonition— https://www.c-span.org/video/?518489-2/authors-michael-lewis-malcolm-gladwell
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Australia’s solution

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    CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 ⁦‪@CBSSunday‬⁩ In Australia, there have been only one mass shooting, and gun homicides decreased nearly 60%. After...

Sandy Hook to Uvalde

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    CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 ⁦‪@CBSSunday‬⁩ Francine and David Wheeler, whose son Ben was among the 26 students, teachers and staff killed in t...

The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier

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A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal cons...

Anti-vax, an old story

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    The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe ⁦‪@SkepticsGuide‬⁩ Anti-vaccine propaganda is nothing new. This cartoon is a response to the use...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

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  How Public Health Failed America The U.S. clearly failed to heed expert advice, but there’s plenty of blame to go around. By  Jay Varm...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

How America Reached One Million Covid Deaths

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THE MAGNITUDE OF THE country's loss is nearly impossible to grasp. More Americans have died of Covid-19 than in two decades of car crash...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Can Anyone Out-Plan a Pandemic?

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Bill Gates has a strategy to save the world from the next infectious threat. He’s not the first. ...To believe that you need only a plan re...
Friday, May 6, 2022

Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots

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...Today’s addictive Web sites and sleekly packaged DNA kits rest on deep, if not always acknowledged, assumptions about the fixity of statu...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Something in the Way We Move

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We may each have a movement "signature" that, like our face or fingerprints, is unique to us. Each of us appears to have a unique ...
Monday, May 2, 2022

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 Joke: The student asked the professor how many problems there would be on the final exam. The professor looked the student over and replied...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Racial disparities in US healthcare

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    CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 ⁦‪@CBSSunday‬⁩ Oprah Winfrey's Smithsonian Channel documentary, "The Color of Care," examines how CO...