With Fall Migration, Bird Flu Flies Back Into Town
Zoos, bird rescue groups and other animal facilities are grappling with a “radically different” outbreak of avian influenza. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Anthes Tags: your-feed-science your-feed-animals Birds Avian Influenza Zoos Wildlife Die-Offs Animal Migration Viruses Flamingos European Center for Disease Prevention and Control San Diego Zoo University of Minnesota California Canada Flor Source Type: news
How a Suicide in a Clinical Trial Turned a Bioethicist Into a Whistleblower
(MedPage Today) -- The case of Dan Markingson was the one that plunged bioethicist Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, of the University of Minnesota (UMN), into whistleblowing.
In November 2003, 26-year-old Markingson was involuntarily committed to Fairview... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - October 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Ambition Is Out
When Rafy Evans, 25, was a teenager, she adopted a mantra to guide her blossoming career aspirations: “I want my work to be about my life, and I want my life to be about my work.”
Evans came of age in what she calls the “girlboss” era, idolizing female entrepreneurs like Nasty Gal’s Sophia Amoruso and Glossier’s Emily Weiss. After graduating college, she threw herself into demanding jobs in Los Angeles’ influencer economy, building a reputation for being available 24/7 and valuing career achievement above all else.
Today, however, Evans’ teenage slogan makes her cringe. After...
Source: TIME: Health - October 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized futureofwork healthscienceclimate Psychology Source Type: news
Similar medications cost more for humans compared to pets
In a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota researchers compared the prices of 120 medications commonly used in humans and pets. The authors found the price of human medications was generally higher than the price of pet medications with the same ingredients at common human-equivalent doses. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - September 27, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Eat a handful of walnuts a day to lower your blood pressure, study suggests
Scientists at the University of Minnesota found participants who ate the nuts had about 0.6 ounces a day - equivalent to seven kernels. They said more research was needed. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Infectious Disease Outbreaks Are Becoming So Common
SARS-CoV-2. Monkeypox. Polio. Marburg. These viruses are no longer familiar just to public-health experts, but household names around the world, thanks to their recent incursions into human populations. People have always confronted pathogens of all sorts, but the attacks are becoming more commonplace, and more intense, than they ever have before.
“We are going through an era of epidemics and pandemics, and they are going to be more complex and more frequent,” says Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome, a global health charitable foundation that addresses health challenges. “We tend to see each [outbreak] i...
Source: TIME: Health - September 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Disease feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Stratasys wraps up merger of MakerBot with Ultimaker
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - September 13, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Off With the Talking Heads: A Plea for One COVID Voice
(MedPage Today) -- "We don't have one consolidated voice."
Those were the words of Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, on NBC's Meet the Press approximately... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - September 10, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Early metformin use may cut Covid hospitalisation, death risk by half: Study
The researchers from the University of Minnesota noted that metformin has been used in the 1950s as an anti-viral called "Fluamine." (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - August 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Metformin drastically reduces COVID hospitalization
The widely available diabetes drug metformin reduced serious outcomes by more than half if started within 4 days of COVID symptoms in a large, randomized, double blind controlled trial, the University of Minnesota announced today. The results were published Aug. 18 in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - August 19, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
New method of nasal vaccine delivery could lead to better vaccines for HIV and COVID-19
A University of Minnesota assistant professor is part of a team that has developed a new way to effectively deliver vaccines through mucosal tissues in the nose that could lead to better protection against pathogens like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - August 11, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
A Hotter World Means More Disease Outbreaks in Our Future
As global temperatures have risen in recent decades, so have the number of outbreaks of infectious diseases. SARS, MERS, Zika, West Nile, COVID-19, and now clusters of monkeypox and polio have all recently threatened public health.
That’s no coincidence. In a study published in August in Nature Climate Change, researchers tried to understand the relationship between major environmental changes related to higher greenhouse gas emissions—including global warming, rising sea levels, storms, floods, drought, and heat waves—and the outbreaks of 375 human infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, and oth...
Source: TIME: Health - August 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized climate change COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Scientists use new technique to identify changes in lakes and reservoirs around the world
A team of researchers led by University of Minnesota, Twin Cities data scientists and supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation has published a first-of-its-kind global dataset of lakes and reservoirs. It shows how these waterbodies have … (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - August 3, 2022 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news
Seminal Alzheimer's study may have been manipulated
A six-month investigation uncovered 'shockingly blatant' tampering of results in a seminal 2006 University of Minnesota study. The paper pointed to a particular protein as the cause of Alzheimer's. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To tame lake-fouling algal blooms, try an ecosystem approach
Every summer, surges of toxic green muck plague lakes worldwide, sickening hikers who fail to purify drinking water, closing favorite swimming holes, and killing fish. The most feared—and studied—cause of these freshwater “algal” blooms is a genus of cyanobacterium called
Microcystis
. Its explosive summer growth is thought to be spurred by rising levels of phosphorus, nitrogen, and other nutrients, perhaps from fertilizer run off or other pollution sources. But new research, driven by advances in DNA sequencing, suggests other types of microbes also play key roles in these massive overgrowths.
Acco...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 6, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
