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Jan 17 2025HEALTH

Teenagers and Elbow Fractures: A Unique Surgical Challenge

Injuries to the elbow can be tricky, especially when it comes to teenagers. A particular type of elbow fracture, called coronal shear fractures, poses unique challenges for surgeons. These fractures are rare and require careful attention to blood supply, the growth plates, and ensuring the bones are

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Jan 17 2025POLITICS

Trump & Xi Chat: TikTok's Fate & More

Former US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping chatted for the first time since 2021. The topic? TikTok! This call happened just hours before the Supreme Court was set to decide the app's fate. A US law about to take effect would have banned TikTok unless its Chinese owner, ByteDa

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Jan 17 2025SPORTS

NFL's Goodell Eyes 18 Regular-Season Games

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is eager to expand the regular season further, aiming for 18 games. On Bloomberg TV, he noted that switching from 16 regular-season games with 4 preseason games to 17 regular-season games with 3 preseason games has been successful. The next logical step, he suggests, i

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Jan 17 2025BUSINESS

PepsiCo Faces FTC Lawsuit Over Alleged Price Discrimination

You might know PepsiCo as the company behind your favorite soda, but did you know they're in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)? The FTC has filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo, accusing them of something called price discrimination. This means PepsiCo is alleged to have given one big ret

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Jan 17 2025HEALTH

Bridging the Gap: Virtual Learning for Haiti's Heart Health

Heart disease is a big problem in countries like Haiti, where money isn't plenty. Doctors there need more training to handle it. A group tried something new: a virtual course to teach heart health to medical students. They tested it out and found it worked well. Haiti has a shortage of doctors who

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Jan 17 2025HEALTH

Designing Better Bone Scaffolds with 3D Printing

When it comes to growing new bones, scientists are exploring how to design the best scaffolds for the job. These scaffolds need to be good at helping new bone grow and strong enough to hold up. Researchers have looked at different types of materials, like metals, non-metals, and polymers, to make th

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Jan 17 2025HEALTH

Older Adults' Reaction to Medication Risk Warnings

Have you ever wondered how warnings about long-term risks of medication affect elderly people's decision to stop taking it? Scientists decided to find out. They created a hypothetical situation, or vignette, to see what happens when seniors are told about potential dangers of their pills. Imagine b

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Jan 17 2025HEALTH

How Your Diet Might Prevent Heart Failure

Heart failure, a significant health issue, is often linked to inflammation. And guess what? Your food choices can influence this inflammation. The dietary inflammatory score (DIS) is a tool that measures how much inflammation your diet causes. Researchers decided to find out if the DIS could predic

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Jan 17 2025TECHNOLOGY

Building Tiny Tech: Making Nanomaterials Work Together

Imagine if you could build tiny machines that are almost invisible to the naked eye. That's what scientists are doing with nanomaterials. These are materials that are incredibly small—about 100, 000 times thinner than a human hair! To make high-tech devices, scientists need to gather and organize th

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Jan 17 2025SCIENCE

How Arabidopsis Stops Making New Blood Vessels When Hurt

Plants have a fascinating ability to create new vessels after being damaged, right? They can even do this when attacked by bad guys that steal their food! Scientists in Germany wanted to find out what helps or hinders this process, so they looked for genes in Arabidopsis mutants that changed how new

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