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Mashup Score: 34Why Elephants Don’t Get Cancer - 2 year(s) ago
Elephants use 20 copies of a key cancer-fighting gene—and humans just have one
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Mashup Score: 34
The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell.
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Such terrible news. Hilary Mantel was among the greats of modern writing. And she still had so much more left to give us. https://t.co/p109xneBrH
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Mashup Score: 32To Kill A Tiger - 2 year(s) ago
The latest from Canadian documentary filmmaker Nisha Pahuja (The World Before Her) is a harrowing, courageous, and universally resonant look at an Indian family’s arduous quest for justice after a teenage girl is brutally assaulted.
Source: TIFFCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
.@NishaPahuja’s gripping film TO KILL A TIGER has its #worldpremiere at #TIFF22 Saturday. Needs to be seen everywhere & I am lucky to be an Exec Producer. The story: What happens when a 13 yr old girl in rural India is raped and her dad seeks justice. https://t.co/dbbHCXmQaA https://t.co/yaC58eN4kv
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Mashup Score: 5Opinion | Big Changes Are Coming for Health Care Costs - 3 year(s) ago
America is determining the shape of health care affordability into the future.
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"The changes to the U.S. health care system in the Inflation Reduction Act are momentous, politically and for the many patients struggling with drug costs." https://t.co/41AEW7KaVw
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Mashup Score: 9Dr. Robert Osteen, surgeon and poet who inspired students, dies at 81 - The Boston Globe - 3 year(s) ago
A poet and a sailor who navigated the page and the waves as deftly as he did the operating room, Dr. Osteen, who lived on Beacon Hill, died July 14 in Brigham and Women’s, the hospital that was his professional home for about 50 years.
Source: BostonGlobe.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The @BostonGlobe’s obituary for Dr Robert Osteen is now out. RIP. Link here: https://t.co/ra53XOZdNI https://t.co/iSC0QdxvAF
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With increased urgency, state officials called for residents to get vaccinated against the disease after it was found in a second county’s wastewater.
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So far one young man paralyzed and virus found in wastewater in 2 counties with a very high 40% of kids <2 yrs unvaccinated against polio. For each one paralysis case, can be hundreds infected. Unvaxed NYers, especially infants: get vaccinated. https://t.co/Pcd7f2xlMB
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Mashup Score: 27Vast New Study Shows a Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and Poor - 3 year(s) ago
An analysis of 21 billion Facebook friendships, covering 84 percent of U.S. adults aged 25 to 44, puts cross-class relationships at the heart of income mobility.
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Landmark, must read new study: “The new analysis — the biggest of its kind — found the degree to which the rich and poor were connected explained why a neighborhood’s children did better later in life, more than any other factor.” https://t.co/LEHz1nFmBz
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Analyses of data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook in the United States reveal associations between social capital and economic mobility.
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“These cross-class friendships — what the researchers called economic connectedness — had a stronger impact than school quality, family structure, job availability or a community’s racial composition.” Here is the full @Nature paper from #RajChetty. https://t.co/wrLPzuvkOF
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Mashup Score: 13Personal Best - 3 year(s) ago
Atul Gawande on the coaching model, its use in professional athletics, and how it can be applied to surgeons and the medical field.
Source: The New YorkerCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Some years ago, in @NewYorker, I got to tell people about Bob Osteen, a remarkable surgeon, friend, and colleague whom I asked to be my coach in the OR: https://t.co/CX2aPd81vx Now, I am sad to report, Bob has died. He will be dearly missed. https://t.co/FRsVqLAgyA
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How the Mozambique Ministry of Health with support from PMI, CDC, and the Global Fund protected families affected by violence in Cabo Delgado
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Displaced families are particularly vulnerable to malaria-carrying mosquitoes because in fleeing their homes many had to leave behind their bed nets. Here's how @pmigov and @GlobalFund helped Mozambique keep malaria rates from rising among IDPs. https://t.co/Hj0GXi3ybH
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Super interesting research. The answer is at least partly that elephants’ cells have an astounding twenty copies of p53, a cancer repair gene. Ours have just one. https://t.co/mNVe4NZ12P