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Mashup Score: 1Studying the link between the gut and mental health is personal for this scientist - 10 month(s) ago
Calliope Holingue researches how the microbiome and mind affect each other. She’s part of a growing field, exploring how that connection could ultimately improve treatments for mental conditions.
Source: NPRCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 115 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go? - 10 month(s) ago
So far, tobacco companies have paid more than $100 billion to state governments as part of a 25-year, $246 billion settlement. Though the money was meant to be spent on prevention and smoking-related programs, it didn’t come with a mandate.
Source: NPRCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
2013 NPR on Tobacco Settlement 15 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go? https://t.co/rDA6FIe3Q2 #ssfacc
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Parents are struggling to find day care for their children — yet, day care centers are having a hard time staying open. Our Planet Money team looks at America’s broken day care system.
Source: NPRCategories: Latest Headlines, PediatricsTweet-
Parents are struggling to find day care for their children — yet, day care centers are having a hard time staying open.https://t.co/zi0vX0ClBZ
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Mashup Score: 8The COVID-19 emergency is over. So why are hospital emergency rooms still crowded? - 10 month(s) ago
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to American College of Emergency Physicians head Dr. Aisha Terry about why U.S. emergency rooms are overcrowded even after the end of the COIVD emergency.
Source: NPRCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Why are emergency departments still so overcrowded? "This is not because, you know, we're not moving quick enough.... it should probably be called health system overload." Patients - and healthcare workers - deserve better. @ACEPNow @AishaTerryMD 👏 https://t.co/xdWDl3datD
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Mashup Score: 7What to know about the drug price fight in those TV ads - 10 month(s) ago
At least nine bills introduced in Congress take aim at pharmacy benefit managers, the powerful middlemen that channel prescription drugs to patients. Here’s what the fuss is all about.
Source: NPRCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Read up on why all those drug price ads are taking aim at PBMs, the middlemen that steer drugs from manufacturers to patients and control prices and terms. 📝: @ArthurAllen202, KFF Health News-NPR https://t.co/SrUqssPEAt
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Mashup Score: 5Is gun violence an epidemic in the U.S.? Experts and history say it is - 10 month(s) ago
Deaths and injuries from guns in the U.S. have increased for years, mirroring the 1990s – the last time gun violence was considered an epidemic.
Source: NPRCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The number of gun deaths in 2021, 48,830, was the largest on record, according to @CDCgov. https://t.co/H0C8HzTnWY
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Mashup Score: 0Is Threads really a 'Twitter killer'? Here's what we know so far - 10 month(s) ago
Meta’s new app, Threads, may be the latest in a long-string of Twitter’s competitors, but it appears to have an edge in the game thanks to its ties to Instagram. Over 30 million users have joined.
Source: NPRCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
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Mashup Score: 4U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk - 10 month(s) ago
The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.
Source: NPRCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
See this post on the NPR Shots blog on the @JAMA_current study. (/end) https://t.co/X6KqvfbYtl
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Mashup Score: 0U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk - 10 month(s) ago
The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.
Source: NPRCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#US maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk - #maternalmortality more than doubled in the last 20 years @npr https://t.co/8Pc7D56pO7
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Mashup Score: 1For the intersex community, 'Every Body' exists on a spectrum - 10 month(s) ago
Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen’s new documentary. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose “anatomy doesn’t fit super neatly into a binary box.”
Source: NPRCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
For the intersex community, 'Every Body' exists on a spectrum https://t.co/TiRi7rO9t5
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“Gut microbes make chemicals that affect your brain..They can be carried by blood directly to your brain, or they can be carried through nerves that connect to your brain. And your brain can speed up your gut and change what your microbes are." https://t.co/04XvQGemnT