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Each year, RSV infections send up to 80,000 kids under 5 to the hospital for emergency treatment. A new antibody treatment could protect the youngest kids — newborns and up infants up to 2 years old.

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  • Health

A single-shot treatment to protect infants from RSV may be coming soon

The illness sends tens of thousands of babies to the hospital each year. If approved, the new injection would be the first broadly available prevention tool.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Tarryn Mento
On Jan. 23, 2020, as the coronavirus spread in China, residents of Wuhan, where it was first identified, donned masks to go shopping. The U.S. didn't officially endorse masks as a preventive measure for the public for a number of weeks.

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  • Global Health

COVID flashback: On Jan. 30, 2020, WHO declared a global health emergency

The World Health Organization issued the statement as the novel coronavirus, calling it an "unprecedented outbreak." Here's what we knew — and didn't know — about the virus at that time.

January 30, 2023
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By:
  • Carmen Drahl
Prairie voles mate for life and are frequently used to study human behavior.

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  • Science

Can you bond without the 'love hormone'? These cuddly rodents show it's possible

The hormone oxytocin plays a key role in long-term relationships. But a study of prairie voles finds that the animals mate for life even without help from the "love hormone."

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
This image shows purified particles of mpox virus, formerly called monkeypox. Viruses like these can be genetically altered in the lab in ways that might make them more dangerous.

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  • Science

When is it OK to make germs worse in a lab? It's a more relevant question than ever

Policymakers have long grappled with how to handle experiments that might generate potentially dangerous viruses. Now, officials are considering whether oversight needs to be expanded.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Medical Minute

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  • Research News

Medical Minute: Chronic Rejection

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a potential new “early warning system” to spot chronic rejection in organ transplant recipients.  

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
A chimpanzee looks out of his enclosure as visitors trickle into Zoo Miami, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Miami.

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  • Research News

Humans can correctly identify several gestures made by apes, a new study shows

On average, half the participants in a study by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland could recognize what either chimpanzees or bonobos were communicating.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman plays in 2019. Swing is an essential component of nearly all kinds of jazz music. Physicists think that subtle nuances in the timing of soloists are key to creating that propulsive swing feel.

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  • Science

What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery

For nearly a century, jazz musicians have debated what gives songs that propulsive, groovy feel that makes you want to move with the music. The secret may lie in subtle nuances in a soloist's timing.

January 21, 2023
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
Medical Minute

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  • Research News

Medical Minute: Subcutaneous Fat

This week’s Medical Minute discusses how subcutaneous fat plays a different role in males versus females when it comes to the brain inflammation that contribute to dementia and stroke.

January 21, 2023
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
Older people who have few social connections and interactions are at a higher risk for developing dementia, a new study has found.

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  • On Aging

Social isolation linked to an increased risk of dementia, new study finds

Socially isolated older adults have a 27% higher chance of developing dementia, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins. The findings suggest that simple interventions could be meaningful.

January 19, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Flat, light rocks like the ones pictured above are favored for skipping stones A new study has found that heavier rocks can also skim the water's surface.

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  • Research News

Study shows heavy stones may give big leaps in water — plus real-world implications

Researchers have studied the physics behind heavy stones skipping across the surface of water. They say these findings could be applied to real-world problems like de-icing airplanes.

January 19, 2023
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By:
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse and
  • Christopher Intagliata
Medical Minute

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  • Research News

Medical Minute: Peripheral Artery Disease

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new study looking directly at whether certain negative social determinants play a role in the prevalence of Peripheral Artery Disease in black adult populations.

January 14, 2023
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
Climate activists protest on the first day of the ExxonMobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019, in New York City. ExxonMobil was found not guilty of misleading investors about how climate change would affect its finances.

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  • Climate

Exxon climate predictions were accurate decades ago. Still it sowed doubt

Exxon's climate research decades back painted an accurate picture of global warming, according to a new scientific paper. Still, the oil company continued climate-denying policy efforts.

January 13, 2023
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  • Jeff Brady

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  • Health

In praise of being late: The upside of spurning the clock

People who lose track of time aren't rude, researchers say — they may just be listening to their inner timekeeper instead of an external clock. Living according to "event time" has its benefits.

January 11, 2023
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By:
  • Pien Huang
An Anolis cristatellus lizard stands on a gate in Rincon, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 22, 2018.

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  • Animals

Forest lizards have genetically morphed to survive life in the city, researchers say

The Puerto Rican crested anole has sprouted special scales to better cling to smooth surfaces like walls and windows and grown larger limbs to sprint across open areas, scientists say.

January 10, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Medical Minute

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  • Research News

Medical Minute: PTSD Treatment

This week’s Medical Minute discusses new laboratory evidence that an old blood pressure medicine may help weaken traumatic memories that lead to debilitating PTSD.

January 07, 2023
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