Yes. The sale and distribution of turtles with shells less than 4 inches long has been banned in the U.S. since 1975.
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Time to study up on tick-borne illnesses in Colorado and how to avoid them
When pathologists cut open dead sloths from a planned Florida tourist attraction, they found a plethora of pathogens. Parasites, bacteria and viruses were all lurking in animals weakened by grueling international transport and stressful conditions at the warehouse that received them, according to necropsy records and a state inspection report obtained by Inside Climate News […]
Hoffmann won a $50,000 research grant to search for a cure to Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy, or FSHD, a disease she has battled since childhood.
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Levin spoke with the CEO about AGI, open-source models and what AI should never replace.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern, and understandably, that headline alone sounds alarming. Risk remains low for families in the United States, but if you’re worried — or even if you’re not — it’s a […]
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State public health authorities confirmed that a person in Douglas County died from a hantavirus infection
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Yes. Unclean conditions and crowding at birdbaths can increase transmission of diseases like house finch eye disease and avian pox
This week we welcome a new contributor, Mitchell Rabinowitz. Watch for LEARNING ABOUT WINE every Monday. Why Should You Care How Old Vines Are? You should care about vine age when it tells you something concrete about how a vineyard behaves, how it handles difficult weather, and what kind of wine it can produce without ... Read more
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A Utah listener recalls a story about her German-speaking mother-in-law referring to a childhood illness as the German disease. In English, the term most commonly referred to syphilis, a disease that different cultures blamed on their neighbors with remarkable consistency. The English dubbed it the French pox, the French referred to it with words that […]
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, the treatment for sleeping sickness was nearly as dangerous as the illness itself. One widely used intravenous drug caused a burning sensation in the veins and killed roughly one in 20 patients who received it. The oral replacement that followed required 10 days of pills and came […]
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It's time to treat it as a whole‑body inflammatory disorder.
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA—A team of researchers from Australia and Vietnam examined skeletal remains of […]
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When two bald eagles built a nest in Philadelphia in 2007, it was the first time one had been recorded in the area in 200 years. Today, eagles can be spotted swooping over Wissahickon Creek, flying near Kelly Drive and soaring above FDR Park. Their return to American skies is one of the 21st century’s […]
In Behror, a hot, dusty town in Rajasthan, people queue outside a free mobile medical van. Most have come with minor complaints, but every now and then, there’s a patient who complains of a persistent mysterious cough and unexplained weight loss, or has been in contact with someone who has...
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Every year, mosquitoes in mostly tropical and subtropical countries cause millions of cases of dengue fever, a virus that induces potentially lethal flu-like symptoms. Cases surged in 2019, after rising for decades, making dengue one of the World Health Organization’s top-10 global health threats and the fastest-growing mosquito-borne disease. In 2023, 6.5 million people contracted […]
If you agree with me that what RFK Jr. has done at HHS — particularly when it comes to altering vaccine schedules, approvals, research, and access — is bad well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Kennedy road Trump’s coattails, building his own Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement on the back of the wider MAGA […]
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Salon owner Nicky Richardson was told she was too young for arthritis - but after years of daily pain she went private and was diagnosed with four chronic conditions at once.</p>
As measles cases increase across parts of California and the U.S., Stanford health officials say campus vaccination requirements make an outbreak unlikely — but stress that immunization remains the strongest defense.
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Today, much of the world is fortunate to have sufficient sanitation and methods of treatment to prevent widespread tuberculosis (TB). In the early 20th century, however, this was not the case, and the disease was much more poorly understood and a massive issue. Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, TB patients (known as "lungers") would often seek treatment at sanatoria in places with healthier…
The world of public health can get complicated at times and, like other scientific disciplines, it involves solving a number of mysteries. Last week, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealed an especially daunting problem: analyzing a 2024 county fair held in Brown County, Illinois where between seven and 13 attendees subsequently fell ill […]
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The Abu-Remaileh Lab published an atlas of proteins found in lysosomes across different brain cell types, setting the foundation for future work on neurodegenerative diseases.
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It was May 2011 when herpetologist Robert Zappalorti called scientists about the tadpoles. Researchers at Montclair State University went to see for themselves. At the site in Ocean County, New Jersey, they found green frog tadpoles that looked like something out of a medical drama or a frog horror film—lethargic and swollen, with red lesions […]
Learn about Stanford scientists’ findings from the past few weeks in this week’s Research Roundup.
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During the 2020 Summer Olympics — which, you may recall, actually took place in the summer of 2021 — plenty of athletic achievements made headlines, but so did organizers’ efforts to keep Olympians safe from COVID-19. By the time of this year’s Winter Olympics, the days of a quarantine bubble are long in the past […]
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If you’re based in the United States, you’ve probably gotten used to government bodies issuing nationwide alerts — including ones that relate to public health. These have, historically, been good ways for health-conscious people to know what to look out for and for regional public health experts to develop strategies to help keep potential outbreaks […]
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