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Mashup Score: 6Chickens’ ability to eat chiles inspires new painkiller - 2 year(s) ago
An experimental pain drug replicates the role of a genetic variant in reducing pain from eating chile peppers.
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Mashup Score: 9Biomarkers could inform individual weight-loss options - 2 year(s) ago
Analysis of data from a yearlong weight-loss study identifies behaviors and biomarkers that contribute to short- and long-term weight loss.
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Metabolic analysis hints at a future of developing individualized diet plans based on biomarkers that can narrow down how each patient loses weight. #WeightLoss #MedTwitter https://t.co/ydp7uvHM2Y
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Mashup Score: 4Rage mirror neurons fire in mice watching other mice fight - 2 year(s) ago
First mirror neurons in mice discovered when their “rage center” neurons fired while they witnessed other mice brawling.
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In a finding researcher Nirao Shah, PhD, calls “pretty shocking,” scientists found mirror neurons in mice for the first time when identical “rage center” neurons fired in a male mouse that witnessed two male mice fighting in a separate cage. #Neuroscience https://t.co/dyxSRRPH8I
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Mashup Score: 5Beyond climate dread — how the medical community is helping - 2 year(s) ago
Amid concerns of a new age of climate cataclysm, myriad projects aim to prevent harm to people and make health care more sustainable.
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“We really have to be intentional about the water used throughout the hospital and per patient.” – Kekoa Taparra, third-year radiation oncology resident and native Hawaiian who is researching ways to conserve water in health care https://t.co/hk1OhFQsbY @KekoaMDPhD #Environment https://t.co/OwAElMKmak
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Mashup Score: 1Beyond climate dread — how the medical community is helping - 2 year(s) ago
Amid concerns of a new age of climate cataclysm, myriad projects aim to prevent harm to people and make health care more sustainable.
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Postdoctoral fellow Britt Wray is trying to bridge the divide between young people experiencing fear for the planet’s health and older people they perceive as not caring or doing enough to combat climate-caused environmental dangers. https://t.co/wuzPbUWOEC #ClimateChange https://t.co/nmmv5wOx1P
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Mashup Score: 0Beyond climate dread — how the medical community is helping - 2 year(s) ago
Amid concerns of a new age of climate cataclysm, myriad projects aim to prevent harm to people and make health care more sustainable.
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A finding by Eran Bendavid and his colleagues that dust pollution is as great a risk to children in sub-Saharan Africa as malaria or the flu leads to search for ways to mitigate the problem. https://t.co/kJiwB74CvC #HealthEquity #Environment https://t.co/H68U9eN9n0
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Mashup Score: 6Beyond climate dread — how the medical community is helping - 2 year(s) ago
Amid concerns of a new age of climate cataclysm, myriad projects aim to prevent harm to people and make health care more sustainable.
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Infectious disease specialist Desiree LaBeaud is growing a nonprofit that helps Kenyans tackle the health hazards of plastic trash — an ideal breeding ground for disease-spreading mosquitoes — lying around in their communities. https://t.co/tyVOQr7fSF #HealthEquity #Environment https://t.co/QuTaBuu7Pc
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Mashup Score: 17Beyond climate dread — how the medical community is helping - 2 year(s) ago
Amid concerns of a new age of climate cataclysm, myriad projects aim to prevent harm to people and make health care more sustainable.
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An infectious disease specialist partners with a professor of oceans and Earth science to engineer and test sunscreens based on viruses that can absorb ultraviolet radiation — to prevent sunburn — without damaging vulnerable ocean creatures. https://t.co/2KAtqiLpbR #Environment https://t.co/cFWmQVMHqV
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Mashup Score: 13Beyond climate dread — how the medical community is helping - 2 year(s) ago
Amid concerns of a new age of climate cataclysm, myriad projects aim to prevent harm to people and make health care more sustainable.
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Jade Benjamin-Chung, an assistant professor of epidemiology and population health, is assessing the health consequences of replacing dirt floors with concrete made with a “green” form of cement on the health of children and their mothers. https://t.co/ZN7eSEbKAR #Sustainability https://t.co/7iMHXkwkw4
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Mashup Score: 1Beyond climate dread — how the medical community is helping - 2 year(s) ago
Amid concerns of a new age of climate cataclysm, myriad projects aim to prevent harm to people and make health care more sustainable.
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Geneticist Polly Fordyce collaborates with engineering experts to develop technology that uses molecularly designed plastic beads to filter contaminants from wastewater to produce drinking water and recover useful materials. https://t.co/GBLJ5fexNF #HealthEquity #Environment https://t.co/za67o3rsyX
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Knowing that chickens can eat chile peppers without experiencing their painful bite leads scientists to find a human genetic variant that blocks those pain sensations and to develop a variant-mimicking drug. #PainManagement #MedTwitter https://t.co/xpo68ReKJW