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A New Once-a-Day Pill Brings Hope to HIV’s ‘Forgotten Population’
Is there a once-a-day pill to keep me healthy? That’s a question that Dr. Chloe Orkin hears a lot from her older HIV patients, who take many medications every day to keep the virus under control. “They keep asking: ‘Why can’t I have a single pill? Or can I take injections?’ And you have to…
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A new daily pill promises to help the “forgotten” HIV population
Is there a pill I can take every day to stay healthy? That’s a question that Dr. Chloe Orkin frequently hears from her elderly HIV patients, who take multiple medications daily to keep the virus under control. “They keep asking: ‘Why can’t I take just one pill? Or why can’t I take injections?’ And we…
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Brazilian study warns of accelerated melting of polar ice caps
A study titled Planeta em Degelo (“Thawing Planet”), based on new data from the Brazilian Antarctic Program (Proantar), warns of the acceleration in glacier melting, which totaled 9,179 gigatons since 1976, threatening coastal cities primarily. Nearly all (98%) of this volume reached the oceans in liquid form since 1990, and 41% just from 2015 to…
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Peer Pressure Can Make This Clownfish Change Its Stripes
In the Disney movie Finding Nemo, the clownfish Marlin worries that his son Nemo might have suffered an injury and asks him to count how many stripes he has. Nemo gets the answer right — three. But in another species, the tomato clownfish, all but one of those stripes disappear as the young fish mature.…
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Brazilian study warns of rapid melting of polar ice caps
A study titled Planet in Thaw, based on new data from the Brazilian Antarctic Program (Proantar), warns of the acceleration of glacier melting, which totaled 9,179 gigatons since 1976, primarily threatening coastal cities. Almost all of this amount (98%) reached the oceans in liquid form since 1990, and 41% just between 2015 and 2024. In…
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Peer Pressure Can Make This Clownfish Change Its Stripes
In Disney’s Finding Nemo, Nemo has three stripes. But in the tomato clownfish, they disappear as the young mature, influenced by social pressure from adults in anemones.
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US and Israeli Attacks on Iran Leave More Than 1,045 Dead
More than 1,045 people died in Iran as a result of attacks carried out by the United States and Israel since the beginning of the military escalation in the country. The number was reported by the semi-official Iranian agency Tasnim, as the conflict entered its fifth day on Wednesday (4), with bombings in several Iranian…
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US and Israeli Attacks on Iran Leave More Than 1,045 Dead
More than 1,045 people died in Iran due to attacks by the United States and Israel since the start of the military escalation, as the conflict intensifies with bombings and retaliations.
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Dennis Carvalho Dies
Actor and director Dennis Carvalho died last Saturday (28) at the age of 78. He was hospitalized at Hospital Copa Star, in Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. The specific cause of death was not disclosed by Hospital Copa Star due to lack of family authorization. The facility stated that it did not have…
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30 Years Without Mamonas Assassinas: The Premonitions That Surrounded the Tragedy That Shocked Brazil
Exactly 30 years ago, Brazil woke up in shock with the death of the Mamonas Assassinas members, a musical phenomenon that conquered the country in record time and had its career tragically interrupted on March 2, 1996. The group was returning from a show in Brasília when the Learjet 25D plane they were traveling in…