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Whether the cryptocurrency hype makes you crypto curious or crypto skeptical, there are many ways your life could be affected by crypto’s underlying technology, blockchain.
The link between antidepressant use and increases in suicidal thoughts or behaviors among treated youth is unproven.
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In the first published survey of users of the hemp-derived compound, respondents highlight some important therapeutic effects.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 8, 2015. A long-awaited report on sexual abuse faulted his handling of four cases.
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A German report accused retired Pope Benedict XVI of mishandling several cases of sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s. Here are a few of our related articles on the Catholic Church’s crisis.
Reverse vaccination teaches the immune system to ignore rather than attack self-proteins.
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A recent lab-stage study finds that preexposure to the proteins used to treat conditions like hemophilia A could help train the immune system to tolerate rather than attack therapies.
People pray for the victims of child sex abuse during a special service at a Catholic church outside Paris on Oct. 5, 2021. A new French report estimates that more than 200,000 children were abused by clergy since 1950.
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A French report on the scale of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is the latest revelation in the crisis, but its roots go back decades – or more. Here are a few of our many related articles.
Poisons have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over two millennia.
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The usefulness of a drug is typically measured by its active ingredient. But traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s more to healing than using the right chemical.
Los grupos de salud y apoyo del VIH ofrecieron pruebas de COVID-19 y otros servicios comunitarios durante la pandemia
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Las comunidades gay en los EEUU estaban bien equipadas para dar servicios sociales y de salud al principio de la pandemia actual, cuando la respuesta COVID-19 del gobierno se retrasó.
The meditation market is expected to grow to over $2 billion by 2022.
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Roundup may be taking a beating in the US, where three juries have concluded that it gave plaintiffs cancer, but it’s still widely used around the globe.
HIV health and support groups offered COVID-19 testing and other community services during the pandemic.
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Having survived the HIV/AIDS pandemic, gay communities in the US were well equipped to get residents health and social services early in the pandemic, when the government’s COVID-19 response lagged.
Surface parking in downtown San Jose, California.
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When Buffalo, New York, changed its zoning code so that developers no longer had to provide specified amounts of parking, space was freed up for public transit and people.
Seattle police officers deploy pepper spray as they clash with protesters in Seattle, Washington, on July 25, 2020.
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New research confirms that unfair police treatment is psychologically damaging and that the consequences are decidedly worse for certain racial and ethnic groups.
This skull, found in France, was among the first fossils to be recognized as belonging to our own species.
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Al perdernos las reuniones y las observaciones casuales que despiertan nuestra curiosidad y sacuden esos momentos de “¡ajá!”, las nuevas ideas, grandes y pequeñas, quedan sin descubrir.
Toilets in space are a bit more complicated than those on Earth.
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Going to the bathroom is much more complicated in space without any gravity. To solve this problem of tricky orbital potty breaks, NASA builds special toilets that work without gravity.
Gene-based vaccines had never been approved for humans before the coronavirus pandemic.
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The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. But just as some of the social changes are likely here to stay, so are some medical innovations.
In our final days, relationships can be resurrected, love revived and forgiveness achieved.
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Quand nous sommes privés des rencontres et des moments d’observation qui titillent notre curiosité, de nouvelles idées, petites ou grandes, restent dans les limbes.
Professor of Medical Informatics and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo