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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

Smart Tech Helps Manage High Cholesterol

High cholesterol, or dyslipidemia, is a serious problem that raises the risk of heart issues. Imagine having a smart helper that can understand a lot of information. This kind of helper is called a Generative AI or GenAI, and it can be used to help manage high cholesterol. Think of it as a smart fri

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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

Close Calls: When Babies Arrive Too Soon in Ethiopia

Imagine a country where every year, thousands of women face a dangerous situation. It isn't a war zone; it is Ethiopia. A baby is born every 33 months. When it is less, it is considered too close or short. This puts the mother at a higher risk of complications. In many countries this isn't a big pro

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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

The Journey of Mother's Milk in Ethiopia

Ethiopia's dedication to boosting child health is something it is known for, but when it comes to breastfeeding it's not always clear how things are evolving. For a long time, information about breastfeeding trends and how policies affect these trends stayed scattered about. People didn't k

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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

Faith at Work: How Beliefs Shape ICU Choices

Intensive care units (ICUs) are high-stakes environments where every decision can have life or death consequences. Imagine a team of doctors, nurses, and specialists working together to save lives. Now imagine that it's decision time. Should they continue treatment, or is it time to let go? This is

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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

Mind Mysteries: Young Adults and Life's Big Questions

Young adults wrestling with psychotic vulnerability face tough challenges. These challenges can shake up their lives. They face issues that can affect them in the long run. These experiences often lead to big questions about life. These questions arise during a stage of life where identity and purp

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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

Unpacking Shrink-Speak

A lot of us talk about how kids feel inside their heads and bodies. Scientists have a fancy name for this: psychosomatic complaints. While teens might just call it "feeling off. " There's this checklist, which is a list of things you might be feeling. Like headaches, stomach pain or just feeling ti

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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

Uncharted Territory: Kids' Hospitals Pause Gender Care

Many parents and their transgender children are now facing a difficult situation. A major hospital in Los Angeles stopped accepting new patients for a specific kind of treatment. This treatment was for kids and young people called hormone therapy. This therapy helps transgender people's bodies matc

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Feb 06 2025SCIENCE

Bird Flu Jumps to Cows: What You Need to Know

Cows in Nevada are facing a new type of influenza. This is not like the one which has been around for a while. The virus, named H5N1, has jumped from birds to cows. This is not the first time this has happened. It is the second time in the past year. This shows that cows might be at risk from this

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Feb 06 2025POLITICS

Jailed, Jailed Again and Out of luck: Trump's Trans Ban

So a bunch of trans women were dumped from their US jail lockups with just their hardened lives in their hands. The problem was because of Donald Trump's rules. Trump commandered the USA prison bros to get trans people out of women's lockups and into men's. Also, hormones? Out for the trans folks.

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Feb 06 2025HEALTH

Smoke's Effect on Heart Health: A Closer Look

The Framingham Heart Study took a deep dive into how smoking affects these key measures: central arterial pressure and other hemodynamic indicators. The study was interested in seeing if smokers had different results on these heart measures. They also wondered if these results would stay the

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