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Why Experts Are Urging Swifter Treatment for Children With Obesity
A piece offering answers to some common questions about pediatric obesity research and why experts are now advising aggressive treatment.
Source: The New York Times
27 Jan 2023
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Data shows student debt relief applicants in each state as auditors question cost
The Biden administration on Friday released a state-by-state breakdown of people who could get assistance from the president’s embattled student-loan debt relief program, days after the Education Department said independent auditors had questioned the estimated cost of the effort.
Source: The Washington Post
27 Jan 2023
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Flu, MERS and Ebola — the disease outbreaks most frequently reported
A study examined how certain diseases were reported globally, and how the process of reporting and seeing disease reported might change how the actual threat posed by various diseases is perceived.
Source: Nature
27 Jan 2023
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FDA eases blood donation ban on gay and bisexual men after years of protest
Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships will no longer be forced to abstain from sex to donate blood under federal guidelines announced Friday, ending a vestige of the earliest days of the AIDS crisis.
Source: The Washington Post
27 Jan 2023
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Rebellion Over College Rankings Seems Likely to Fail
Hopes that a recent trend of high-profile schools withdrawing from the US News & World Report college ranking system marks the death knell for college rankings may not be well-founded.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
27 Jan 2023
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BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Some of Its Content
BuzzFeed Inc. said it would rely on ChatGPT creator OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize some content for its audiences, becoming the latest digital publisher to embrace artificial intelligence.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
26 Jan 2023
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HIV at center of latest culture war after Tennessee rejects federal funds
Tennessee has rejected millions of dollars from the federal government for HIV/AIDS prevention — a move that public health experts worry will politicize the response to the disease and has the potential to destabilize decades of progress in getting the epidemic under control.
Source: The Washington Post
26 Jan 2023
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Intel Expected to Post Loss as Demand for Chips Wanes
Intel Corp. is expected to report a fourth-quarter loss, hurt by a souring market for its chips and growing competition from rivals.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
26 Jan 2023
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How Rare Island Bunnies Do a Parasitic Plant’s Bidding
Story about a symbiotic relationship between a rare plant/parasite and a rare animal.
Source: The New York Times
26 Jan 2023
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Iranian researchers fear for science after hardline cleric takes important post
Many Iranian scientists are dismayed about last week’s appointment of Abdolhossein Khosropanah as the new secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, a body with considerable power over science, academic life, and culture in Iran.
Source: Science
26 Jan 2023
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UK universities report sharp post-Brexit drop in EU students
Brexit and immigration policies are shaping who studies and works at UK universities, according to data released by the United Kingdom's Higher Education Statistics Agency.
Source: Nature
26 Jan 2023
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How Do Heavy Metals Like Lead Get in Baby Food?
The Food and Drug Administration’s new plan to keep high levels of lead out of baby foods like mashed sweet potatoes, apple sauce and dry cereal is part of a larger effort to eliminate heavy metals from the foods the youngest children eat — it faces many difficult challenges, not least of which being how and where the food is grown in the first place.
Source: The New York Times
26 Jan 2023
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FDA advisers favor retiring original covid shot and using newer version
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously endorsed retiring the original coronavirus shot in favor of one that targets both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron variant.
Source: The Washington Post
26 Jan 2023
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Protein decoys for viruses may battle COVID-19 and more
A strategy for stopping COVID once and for all that is still theoretical involves flooding the body with proteins that mimic the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor, the cell-surface protein that SARS-CoV-2 uses to gain entry into cells. These decoys would bind to the virus’ spike protein, disarming it. The molecules might both protect people from getting infected and help COVID-19 patients clear the virus from the body.
Source: Science
26 Jan 2023
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Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It.
It may seem harmless, but when you enter your email, you’re sharing a lot more than just that. I’m hoping this column, which includes some workarounds, persuades you to think twice before handing over your email address.
Source: The New York Times
25 Jan 2023
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Teachers say parents, laws are changing how they teach race and gender
Teachers are changing their lessons amid increasing scrutiny from parents and a raft of state laws and school policies that circumscribe lessons on race and gender, according to one of the first nationally representative studies of the subject.
Source: The Washington Post
25 Jan 2023
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Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams Down for Thousands of Users
Microsoft Corp.’s popular Teams and Outlook software were hit by a global outage, with thousands of users reporting that the products were down early Wednesday, before the service was restored.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
25 Jan 2023
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Abortion-Pill Restrictions in Two States Challenged in Lawsuits
Two new lawsuits challenge states’ ability to restrict access to abortion pills.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
25 Jan 2023
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Death by a thousand meetings: How to reduce video-call overload
Pre-pandemic, white-collar workers felt meeting exhaustion. Then came Zoom fatigue. Now, they’re experiencing a bit of both, sometimes at the same time.
Source: The Washington Post
25 Jan 2023
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Affordable Care Act Enrollments Reach Record High
Enrollments under the Affordable Care Act have reached an all-time high on the federal and state exchanges, helping drive the nation’s uninsured rate down to record lows despite steeper monthly premium costs.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
25 Jan 2023