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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

Medical Xpress

This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science. This region governs essential behaviors like the circadian clock, sleep, energy balance , and feeding.

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Episode 169: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 7 – Antiracism, Global Health Equity, and the COVID-19 Response

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The Global COVID-19 Response Must Be Anti-Racist An anti-racist COVID-19 response means that quality care, quality vaccines, and quality public health information must be provieded to all. From social distancing to contact tracing to vaccin distribution, every step should be considered through an anti-raicst framework.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. Alex 15:37 Yeah. generation.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine.

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Arsenicum album for Kerala school students: a bogus prophylaxis

Tiny Physician

On the brighter side, daily case count drastically decreased and vaccination drive is happening at top speed. Almost 1 billion doses of vaccine have been administered so far and the situation is currently under control. Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Condemns Inhumane Immigration Enforcement

Doctors for America

Children and families are experiencing severe psychological distress, toxic stress, and long-term harm to physical and mental health due to forced separations and the constant threat of deportation. These actions disproportionately impact communities already marginalized by structural racism, xenophobia, and inadequate access to care.