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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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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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A Potential Drug to Treat Acute Respiratory

WebAfter the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are acutely aware of how viral infections can decimate our bodies. Severe influenza A virus (IAV), much like the virus …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When Correlation Does Not Imply Causation: Why your gut …

WebIn retrospect, doing scientific research and practicing clinical medicine, may actually require irreconcilable mind sets. My intellectual start began in the arts and …

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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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Mining DNA for Disease Prediction: The polygenic risk score

WebThe polygenic risk score is an evolution of medical genetics. Much of the history of medical genetics has been finding one-to-one disease relationships: mutations …

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Reconsidering the Risks of Nuclear Power

WebReconsidering the Risks of Nuclear Power. by Jordan Wilkerson. figures by Shannon McArdel. The United States emits an immense amount of carbon dioxide into …

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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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