In the U.S., Hispanic women have been disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic in recent years. Yet they’ve been less likely to take advantage of PrEP, a medication that significantly…
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The important gap community health workers and care managers can fill in high blood pressure care
Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels People who experience sustained hunger because of food insecurity aren’t thinking about checking their numbers, taking medication or getting to a doctor’s appointment, she said.…
India launching Earth-observing satellite tonight on 3rd mission of new rocket
India plans to launch an advanced Earth-observing satellite tonight (Aug. 15), on the third-ever mission of its new SSLV rocket. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s EOS-08 spacecraft is scheduled to…
Bone fracture rates in women found to vary dramatically by race
Credit: Liliana Drew from Pexels A new paper finds that bone fracture rates in older women differ by race, quite significantly. While researchers have known for years that the risk…
NASA telescopes work out black hole’s feeding schedule
Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers has made important headway in…
How the Brain Learns to Make Inferences
Summary: Researchers have uncovered how the brain processes inferential reasoning by recording neuron activity in individuals as they learned through trial and error. The study revealed that specific brain regions,…
Adults with learning disabilities three times more likely to die from cancer, researchers find
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Glasgow have found that adults with learning disabilities are more likely to die from cancer compared to the general population. The…
