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Novel therapy shows promise for lung cancer patients with rare EGFR mutation
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States, regardless of ethnicity.…
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Under “Chief’s Orders” Ohio Operates a Radioactive Industry Off The Record
Without detailed reporting requirements for the Chief’s Orders facilities, there’s no way Public Herald could find out how much waste…
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The music of silence: Imagining a song triggers similar brain activity to moments of mid-music silence
Imagining a song triggers similar brain activity as moments of silence in music, according to a pair of just-published studies…
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PWSA’s stormwater director says Pittsburgh needs to fix flooding even if it raises costs
PWSA: After the Crisis Although the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has typically focused on providing clean water and transporting…
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Line 5 pipeline between U.S. and Canada could cause ‘devastating damage’ to Great Lakes, say environmentalists | CBC News
An aging pipeline that carries oil along the bottom of the ecologically sensitive and turbulent Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan…
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Phytoplankton blooms hint at changing Arctic waters – ArcticToday
A summer phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea creates brilliantly colored whorls. (NASA Earth Observatory) During the spring and summer…
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An overactive sweet tooth may spell trouble for our cellular powerplants
The average American eats roughly 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day — more than three times the recommended amount…
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Red Tide isn’t just bad for fish, as a Tampa Bay man learned in the ER
ST. PETERSBURG — In late June, Bill Sanders dozed in a lounge chair behind his home in Tropical Shores, about…
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Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn
The new, highly-contagious Delta variant — spread with the ease of chickenpox — is causing COVID-19 cases to skyrocket across…
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Experimental model of ovarian cancer shows effect of healthy cell arrangement in metastasis: Link between defects in the arrangement of healthy cells, how quickly tumor cells invade tissue
Ovarian cancer devastates more than 20,000 women in the U.S. every year, due in part to its tendency to evade…
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Nightbirde Drops Out of ‘America’s Got Talent’ as Her Cancer ‘Takes a Turn for the Worse’
Singer Nightbirde announced she will have to drop out of America’s Got Talent to focus on her “fight with cancer.”…
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Group donates $243k worth of machines for Sri Lanka cleanup
A Singapore-based non-profit group, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, has donated beach cleanup equipment worth US$180,000 (S$243,000) to the…
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Insight into underlying causes of seizure disorder in babies
Researchers report that infantile spasms, a rare but serious seizure disorder in babies, appear to be the result of a…
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Teddi Mellencamp Reveals Lingering COVID-19 Symptoms May Have Led to Her Vertigo Fall
Teddi Mellencamp shared more details about a scary vertigo-related fainting episode she experienced last week—including how the incident may be…
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Despite One Big Dissent, Minnesota Utilities Approve of Coal Plant Sale. But Obstacles Remain – Inside Climate News
A plan to sell, rather than close, the largest power plant in North Dakota has received approval from the boards…
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Boris Johnson ‘missing in action’ ahead of vital climate talks, says Keir Starmer
Vital UN climate talks are at risk of failure because Boris Johnson is “missing in action” while his climate spokesperson…
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NYC Is the First Major U.S. City to Require COVID-19 Vaccination to Enter Gyms, Restaurants, and Venues
Thanks to a new NYC vaccine mandate, you’ll soon need to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to enjoy…
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Tracking circadian rhythms from your smartwatch
Smartwatches are handy devices for people to keep track of the number of steps they take per day or to…
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39 Last-Minute Deals on Activewear to Score at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale
Every year, Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale is reliably one of the best places to score deals on your favorite products. The…
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John Kerry on the Unfathomable Stakes of the Next U.N. Climate-Change Conference
As wildfires, floods, and extraordinary storms ravage parts of the globe this summer, as glaciers cleave and collapse and the…
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Delta Variant and Children: What You Need to Know
Variant B.1.617.2, otherwise known as the delta variant, has been on the CDC’s radar since December of 2020. First detected…
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Here’s How Olympic Steeplechaser Emma Coburn Stays Focused on Race Day
“I’m usually just chatting with Joe [Bosshard, her coach and husband] or texting with my sister,” she says. “Or, just…
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Russian Arctic losing billions of tons of ice due to climate change
Glaciers and ice caps in parts of the Russian Arctic are losing meltwater equivalent to nearly five million Olympic-sized swimming…
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Icahn Mount Sinai and historically Black medical school Meharry partner to address racism, improve diversity in science
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Meharry Medical College in Nashville announced a partnership on Tuesday to…
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New study details enzyme that allows coronavirus to resist antiviral medications
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has demonstrated a stubborn ability to resist most nucleoside antiviral treatments, but a new study…
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The Weird, Sustainable Booze of the Future Tastes … Good?
When Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen founded the Denmark-based microdistillery Empirical Spirits four years ago, they weren’t actually sure…
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‘Not just a Lytton problem’: Tragedy highlights climate change dangers
In the extreme heat of late June, apples were literally baking on the branches of a tree in John Haugen’s…
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Miniature brain models developed to study causes of Alzheimer’s disease and to test drugs in development: Most people suffering from the memory condition have late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, yet most studies have focused on early-onset inherited Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers led by City of Hope have developed a powerful miniature brain platform to study the mechanistic causes of Alzheimer’s…
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Quebec’s relationship with forestry industry under scrutiny as pressure mounts to protect woodlands | CBC News
As it runs from the Otish Mountains south to Lac-Saint-Jean, the Péribonka River cuts through a valley in Quebec that…
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Practices facing ‘existential’ threats, uncertainty about future of primary care, survey finds
As the country makes progress on the vaccination front, primary care practices and clinicians are now more involved in COVID-19 vaccinations.…
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How sex cells get the right genetic mix – An interdisciplinary approach solves a century-old puzzle
A new discovery explains what determines the number and position of genetic exchanges that occur in sex cells, such as…
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IPCC aims to elevate women’s voices in climate science
For too long, the world’s foremost scientific body on global warming has overlooked the contributions of female scientists and the…
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23 Essential Gardening Tools, According to Horticulture Experts
It doesn’t matter if you have a green thumb or the touch of death when it comes to plants—if you…
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Starving cows. Fallow farms. The Arizona drought is among the worst in the country
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — The cotton’s gone. The alfalfa barely exists. “Can you even call this a farm?” asked Nancy Caywood,…
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Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just a quick walk through the parking lot of Choices-Memphis Center for Reproductive Health in this legendary…
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A Health Care Giant Sold Off Dozens of Hospitals — But Continued Suing Patients
Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Tennova Healthcare-Lebanon doesn’t exist anymore as a hospital. But it still sued Hope Cantwell. A…
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As water table lowers, Tehran and much of Iran are slowly sinking
TEHRAN — Pari Rahmanian and her daughters were sitting down to dinner in her brother’s third-floor apartment in south Tehran when…
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N.C. House energy bill still stirring debate
Democrats say the bill, which could govern electricity generation for decades to come, was drafted in secrecy. Rep. John Szoka,…
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Nassau supervisor wants more testing around toxic superfund site
NASSAU – More testing for PCB-contaminated sediments that possibly moved downstream during recent flooding must be done along the Little…
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Pennsylvania among worst states in nation in outdoor economic value, says study | Pennsylvania Capital-Star
By Kimberly Rooney Pennsylvania has more than 300,000 acres of state parks where people can hike, picnic, camp, fish, hunt, and…
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The race to save the Underground from flooding
It was when the water started coursing through Covent Garden and Pudding Mill’s Docklands Light Railway Stations on July 25…
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Smoking and vaping limits have unclear impact in New Hanover County
It’s been more than six months since a new rule made smoking and vaping illegal in some public and county-owned…
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Cutting 250 calories daily and exercising may improve heart health in obese older adults
Cutting just 250 calories a day with moderate exercise reaped bigger rewards than exercise alone for older, obese adults. Among…
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Going to HIMSS21 in Vegas? Here’s what you need to know
HIMSS21 will kick off one week from today in Las Vegas as the first and largest on-site healthcare conference since the…
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Molecular switch regulates fat burning in mice
Linked to serious health problems including cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, obesity affects more than a third of adults in…
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Global Competition Over Fish Stocks Increasingly Affects Hawaii
In the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 1, 2020, the Robin II, a Honolulu-based fishing longliner, was confronted by a larger…
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Hospitals’ volume, margin gains held in check by rising costs in June, Kaufman Hall reports
Hospitals made gains in margins and admissions throughout June, yet the recovery still lags behind what the provider organizations were…
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Majority of nursing homes missing broad safety, quality inspections due to the pandemic
States have fallen behind on federally mandated surveys of quality and safety measures at nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.…
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Scientists boost gene knockdown in human cells via chemically modified RNA CRISPR: Modified RNA guides improve gene targeting for next-generation CRISPR tools and therapies
In the latest of ongoing efforts to expand technologies for modifying genes and their expression, researchers in the lab of…
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New treatment option for advanced urothelial cancer patients shows promise in a phase 2 clinical trial
A new treatment for advanced urothelial cancer was effective with tolerable side effects in an international, multi-center phase 2 clinical…
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