Category: Medicine
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How the Brain Changes with Learning New Languages
There are numerous reasons to learn a new language: work, love, or personal interest in the culture or people of a region. Research also shows that learning languages benefits the overall health of the brain. Learning a new language is like exercising the brain. Just as muscles strengthen with physical training, neural pathways remodel when…
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Brazil Inaugurates World’s Largest Biofactory for ‘Good’ Mosquitoes
The Molecular Biology Institute of Paraná (IBMP) and the World Mosquito Program (WMP) inaugurated on Saturday (July 19) Wolbito do Brasil, the world’s largest biofactory specialized in breeding Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inoculated with Wolbachia bacteria, which prevent the development of viruses causing diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. In a statement, the biofactory reported…
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As Women Have Far Fewer Children, U.S. and World Face Unprecedented Challenges
As more women in the US and around the world choose to have fewer children or none at all, declining birth rates create unprecedented demographic challenges for governments and societies.
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Brazilian Indigenous Researcher Catalogs 150 Medicinal Plants from His Territory
The initial goal was to find treatments for the three most recurrent illnesses of the Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãi people, from the Caramuru/Paraguassu Indigenous Land, in southern Bahia: worms, diabetes, and hypertension. This is how the research by ethno-botanist Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó Hãhãhãi began, who—as his name indicates—belongs to the ethnicity and is a PhD…
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Brazilian Indigenous Researcher Maps 150 Medicinal Plants from His Territory
Indigenous researcher from Bahia catalogs 175 medicinal plants used by his people to treat diabetes, hypertension, and parasitic infections.
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Brazilian Ports and Airports Must Display Informational Materials on Mpox
Brazilian ports and airports must display informational materials on the symptoms and preventive measures for mpox. These posters must be placed in international arrival areas during the validity of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern related to the disease. Similarly, airlines must issue an audible announcement about measles on board aircraft during the disease…
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Brazilian ports and airports will have to display informational materials about mpox
Brazilian ports and airports must display informational materials on mpox symptoms and prevention measures.
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Bowel cancer that struck Preta Gil is the 3rd most common in the country
Cases of bowel cancer, like the one that struck singer and businesswoman Preta Gil, usually only manifest symptoms in advanced stages, which makes treatment difficult and reduces the chances of cure. Therefore, people with risk factors should begin screening exams before the age of 50, which is the recommended age for the general population. “When…
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Brazil inaugurates world’s largest biofactory for ‘good’ mosquitoes
The Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Paraná (IBMP) and the World Mosquito Program (WMP) inaugurated on Saturday (19) the Wolbito do Brasil, the world’s largest biofactory specialized in breeding Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inoculated with the Wolbachia bacterium, which prevents the development of viruses causing diseases like dengue, chikungunya, and zika. With 70 employees, the biofactory…
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Manhattan Shooter Believed He Had CTE. What Does That Mean?
The shooter accused of entering a skyscraper on Park Avenue in Manhattan and killing four people suspected he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE — a degenerative brain disease often associated with American football players. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that Shane Tamura, 27, possibly targeted the offices of the NFL located in…