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If motivation feels harder to access, sex drive has dipped, or attention span is fleeting, dopamine could be the missing piece. Dopamine, often dubbed the “motivation…
Category: 5. Health
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Ivermectin: The mosquito-killing pill that dropped malaria by 26%
Ivermectin administered to the whole population significantly reduces malaria transmission, offering new hope in the fight against the disease. The BOHEMIA trial, the largest study on ivermectin for malaria to date, showed a 26% reduction in new…
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Oregon’s Bold Stand Against Private Equity In Healthcare: What’s Next?
Private Equity Has Skyrocketed In Healthcare
Complex economic forces shape the U.S. healthcare landscape, with private equity (PE) firms promising efficiency and growth in the medical sector while simultaneously sparking debate. On June 9,…
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This sugar substitute does more than sweeten — it kills cancer cells
Stevia may provide more benefits than as a zero-calorie sugar substitute. When fermented with bacteria isolated from banana leaves, stevia extract kills off pancreatic cancer cells but doesn’t harm healthy kidney cells, according to a research…
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This DNA test can predict if a 5-year-old will be obese as an adult
What if we could prevent people from developing obesity? The World Obesity Federation expects more than half the global population to develop overweight or obesity by 2035. However, treatment strategies such as lifestyle change, surgery and…
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The Emotional Cost Of Dating Men And How Women Are Rewriting Rules
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A new cultural lexicon is emerging, and at the center of it is a term that captures the private exhaustion and public irony many straight women feel toward modern relationships…
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Bringing Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Back To The U.S.
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a federal program to bring advanced semiconductor R&D to Florida, a quantum computing milestone for biotech, a new way to get forever chemicals out of the water supply and more. You can sign…
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S.
As birth rates decline in the U.S. and throughout the world, voices from Silicon Valley to the White House are raising…
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The 3 worst things you can say after a pet dies, and what to say instead
I saw it firsthand after my cat Murphy died earlier this year. She’d been diagnosed with cancer just weeks before.
She was a small gray tabby with delicate paws who, even during chemotherapy, climbed her favorite dresser perch – Mount…
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Millipedes make ants dizzy — and might soon treat human pain
Millipedes get a bad rap — their many legs put people off and could classify them as “creepy crawly.” But these anthropods’ secretions could hold the key to new drug discovery for the treatment of neurological diseases and pain.
Chemist Emily…
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