image: Air pollutants form the condensation nuclei for ice clouds or cirrus clouds (here: Cirrus spissatus). When ammonia, nitric acid and sulfuric acid are present together, they form such condensation nuclei particularly effectively. view more Credit: Joachim Curtius, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany FRANKFURT. The Asian monsoon transports enormous amounts of air from atmospheric layers close to Earth’s…
Newswise — ROCHESTER, Minn. — Public health experts report that members of immigrant and refugee communities continue to be disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with higher rates of infection and death. Health disparities can be associated with job type, immigration status and English proficiency. A team of Mayo Clinic medical experts and community leaders…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from Penn State found that children with positive, early interactions with their care givers—characterized by warmth, responsiveness, and a sitmulating home environment—were at reduced risk of childhood obesity. “A lot of the discussion around childhood obesity and other health risks focuses on identifying and studying the exposure to risk,”…
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“Healthy habits are learnt in the same way as unhealthy ones, through practice.” To change old habits or adopt new ones, is always in our hands. Every day, we make a thousand choices and one of the important choices is to decide our everyday consumption. Our overall development depends on the food we consume. An…
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A collaboration between seven community health clinics with more than 30 locations across the state are working together to make treatment for opioid use disorder easier for Mainers to access. Starting Nov. 18, Penobscot Community Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center with eight locations in the Bangor area, and the Maine Primary Care Association…
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