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2025年2月12日 · However, several major medical organizations support GLP-1 treatment for obesity. One of those groups, the American Medical Association, has even urged insurers to cover the medications.. Now, a growing chorus of advocates are calling on legislators to solve the price-access conundrum by, in part, strong-arming drug makers into lowering prices.

2025年2月21日 · E fforts to promote diversity in research predate the Biden administration. A half a century ago, the NSF established a goal of increasing the number of women and underrepresented groups in science. The agency began targeting programs for minority-serving institutions as well as minority faculty and students.

2024年12月3日 · Indeed, skeptics sometimes associate geoengineering with supervillain behavior, like a famous episode of The Simpsons in which the robber baron Mr. Burns blocks the sun. They warn that outdoor experiments could set humanity down a slippery slope, allowing powerful billionaires or individual countries to unleash hazardous technologies without input or agreement from the public more broadly, all ...

2025年1月30日 · Instead, the United States has focused its efforts on strategies that are largely centered around carbon capture, which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and from emission point sources such as large industrial facilities and power plants. Most of these carbon capture strategies are costly, complex to implement, and not well studied, whereas kelp farming is cheap and technologically ...

2025年1月27日 · I have decades of direct exposure to PFAS, likely making me — and my breastmilk — a reservoir. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry found that the residents in my hometown of Westfield, Massachusetts, had four times the national average of certain PFAS in their blood. . Numerous times, I considered getting my ...

2024年3月6日 · Back in 1991, after my only Son was born; I started studying about the reasoning behind mandatory water fluoridation and In 2006, I had the honor to meet with Paul Connett, PhD of the famed Fluoride Action Network, up in New York @ St Lawrence University at the 2nd Annual FAN Convention & got to also meet a lot of other people who where Toxicologists , Dr David Kennedy, DDS,Toxicologist among ...

2025年2月4日 · Trump’s order seeking to disrupt insurance coverage for young people, the Williams Institute said in a brief, “will likely at least limit the availability of gender-affirming care or make it more difficult to access in the short term and could increase risk for both providers and recipients of the care.”. Much of what the order calls for …

2025年2月7日 · J ames was in his late 30s and weighed more than 500 pounds when he fell in the bathroom and found himself wedged between the wall and shower enclosure. Unable to get up because of his size, and too embarrassed to call for help, he lay there for three days. Firefighters eventually had to wreck the bathroom to free him.

2025年2月6日 · The first waves of interference included the suspension of public communication and study sections (groups that review grants) at the National Institutes of Health, and the aggressive dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, programming at NASA. Other activities then followed: the freezing of global health funds and the breaking of communication between the U.S. Centers for ...