It's time to pay attn to indoor air quality, much like we do for outdoor air, or water. We spend 90% of our time indoors, and clean air is essential for our health and wellbeing. With thanks to and
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Drug-resistant UTIs are becoming increasingly common, and that could be a harbinger of antimicrobial resistance in other common infections, writes :
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I waded into the uproar over gas stoves. Here's what the science says about their risks to human health and the climate
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On Jan. 17, 1893, 130 years ago, the Native government of the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown by European and American settler colonialists. How did it happen, and how did this lead to the US annexation of Hawaii? A thread. 🧵 1/
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A study just found that gas stoves are responsible for ~12% of childhood asthma cases.
Recently I installed air quality monitors in our home and measured the pollution from our gas stove.
Here's a video about what I learned.
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Our comprehensive review of #LongCovid has just been published
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Get vaccinated and mask up instead
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It's cold, flu, and immune-pseudoscience season so just FYI turmeric is unstable in your body and is neutralized within 10 minutes, there is no good evidence that Vitamin C fights illness, and it is impossible to "boost" your immune system so don't waste your time and money.
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Why is California getting hammered by atmospheric rivers? Robin Meadows asks extreme weather expert Katerina Gonzales to explain, for :
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More evidence gas stoves are bad for us.
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Researchers just found that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases.
Recently I read dozens of studies about gas stoves and indoor air quality.
I also installed monitors in our home and ran my own tests.
Here's what I learned.
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Have you or anyone you know experienced COVID rebound *without* taking Paxlovid?? Would love to talk. (RT please!)
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46 million people in the U.S. live in a rural community.
That's 15% of the country.
So why are we standing by while rural residents die at higher rates than urban residents?
It's time to act. scientificamerican.com/article/people
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"Scientists who analyzed wastewater samples taken from 29 flights in Kuala Lumpur have found the coronavirus in 28 of them"
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Testing wastewater from planes found that almost all flights had passengers with COVID.
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Cats know when their human is speaking to them, even if they don't always listen. (For all my fellow cat parents out there) :
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We're hiring a head of communications! This person will work closely with our Scientific American team as we transition to a wider digital audience. Here's the link to apply (deadline Jan 13):
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Check out this A+ vid by my colleague on how Tiktok star and med student is tackling racism and disparities in medicine.
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Medical influencer @joelbervell is challenging racism in health care, one TikTok at a time.
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Stigmatizing rather than normalizing masking represents one of the many enduring failures of the US COVID response. Absent policies, public health and clinical leaders, the media, and cultural institutions can influence social norms that support masking.
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When you’re stuck isolating with Covid, why not make a Corsi-Rosenthal box? It’s the perfect Christmas gift for your lungs!
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This may be my favorite study of all time: the silly walk burns more calories than a normal gait, researchers find. #montypythonscience (By for )
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If the ambulance takes you to NYU Langone’s emergency room, you may find yourself awaiting lifesaving treatment while a hypochondriac famous actor or a rich board member with a boo-boo cuts the line. Enraging reporting by and
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Scientists tie third clinical trial death to experimental Alzheimer’s drug science.org/content/articl. Adds to case for a REMS.
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In a first, scientists have created male (XY) and female (XX) cells from a single person. The cells could open up new ways to study sex differences in health and development, writes in :
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Research shows that the COVID vaccines don't harm fertility. They may, however, affect menstrual cycles, but the changes are minor and short lived, writes in this opinion piece for :
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It's been a busy year on the health beat. From an AI that can predict the structure of most known proteins to the ability to track viruses in our poop, here are some of the biggest discoveries you may not have heard about.
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The 2022 Headline of the Year Nominees
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FYI for anybody subjected to Christmas movies about how rural life is better than city life -- it's actually very dramatically the opposite scientificamerican.com/article/people by & on
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Why have journalists had their Twitter accounts suspended? Please explain. And it had better be a GOOD explanation.
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So far, thankfully, I’ve had a fairly mild case. I am so grateful for access to great vaccines, good health care, and a job that lets me work remotely so I don’t infect others. I hope this thread has been helpful, and I wish everyone a happy—and healthy—holiday season.
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Perhaps I was unlucky. But I see it differently. For nearly three years, I didn't get covid—or even a cold. Yes, I was privileged to be able to work from home and I don’t have small children, which were huge advantages. But getting sick doesn’t have to be inevitable.
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At this point in the pandemic, with plentiful vaccines and antiviral treatments available, I decided it was worth taking some calculated risks to do things I enjoy.
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So how did I finally get it? I don’t know for sure, but I suspect it was from an office holiday gathering where most people were unmasked. I wore an N95 except for briefly taking bites or sips and avoided crowded areas, but I was in the building all day. And time = risk.
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If I was going to visit an elderly/immunocompromised family member, I took lots of tests. PCR tests before traveling, and rapid tests for several days after arriving. I avoided possible exposures for a week or more before traveling.
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Because we know the coronavirus is airborne, I only ate at restaurants with outdoor seating (not a sealed-in "outdoor" shack). I bought portable air purifiers and a C02 monitor to measure ventilation levels at home. I opened windows.
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As soon as vaccines became available, I got mine. I’ve gotten every booster I could since then, including the new bivalent booster that targets Omicron. (Despite its effectiveness, only 14 percent of people in the U.S. have gotten one!)
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I did get on planes a few times to visit a sick parent who needed my help. But from the moment I left my apartment to the moment I arrived, I didn’t take off my mask. I opened the windows in taxis. I didn’t eat or drink on the flights except to sip water while holding my breath.
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For the first year or two, I avoided spending time indoors in public as much as possible, with the exception of grocery stores or doctor’s offices. I avoided the subway for a while, although studies suggest trains weren’t the biggest vectors for spread.
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I didn’t just wear it some of the time. I wore it anytime I was indoors in public, or even outdoors if I was in a crowd. I wore one in the hallway of my apartment building, even if there was no one else around, because aerosols can linger in the air for a while.
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From the moment we had evidence that COVID might be airborne, I wore a mask. But not just any mask—an N95 or well-fitted KN95. At first these were really hard to come by, but now it’s quite easy to find them. Here’s how you can find a good one:
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Well, it happened. After nearly three years of covering COVID and thinking about it almost constantly, it finally got me. But rather than focus on how I got it, I’m going to tell you how I *didn’t* get it for this long. [Thread]
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Important viewing for anyone with or without a clitoris!
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The clitoris has been lost to science for centuries, but it’s making a comeback.
The final episode of our documentary series "A Question of Sex" explores what it means for science to prioritize female pleasure. bit.ly/3HJVp1D
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