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The article reports on scientific findings related to the field of medicine. A team of Chinese scientists has achieved a milestone for biomedical research when they successfully created the first cloned primates. A study published in May 2018 has described a biosensor capsule that detected gastric bleeding in pigs. An HIV vaccine, developed by a team of researchers led by immunologist Dan Barouch, is in an efficacy trial which will determine if it can protect people from the virus.

The article reports on scientific findings related to flora and fauna. Two new Adélie penguin colonies were discovered on the Danger Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, just miles apart, and were spotted using satellite imagery and drones. A study published in May 2018 has found that the origin of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in frogs is the Korean Peninsula. Hybrid rhino embryos were created by a group of researchers which may revive the last male northern white rhino.

The article discusses the ancient hunter-gatherer society in Europe, highlighting Burial 7/I which is the ancient remains of a barrel-chested man found at a fishing camp near the Danube River. Several archaeologists who studied the man believes that he was born a hunter and died a farmer. The sites in the Danube reportedly represent the oldest examples of the interaction between foragers and farmers in Europe. Also discussed are the lifestyles of the communities.

The article reviews the architectural structure of pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

The article offers several information related to autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), which is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behavior. Topics discussed include no association between vaccination and autism; impact of genetic and environmental factors over brain development; and use of behavioral therapies and medications for treatment of ASD.

The article presents information on the Antikythera shipwreck's treasure and human remains that has long been a fascinating site for archeologists for DNA analysis. It mentions the statement of several experts including Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist at Lund University, Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University, and Hannes Schroeder, a DNA analyst at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

The article discusses about one thing has become clear in the run-up to APHA's 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo, Going virtual has opened the door to innovation. Topics include engagement opportunities include speed networking, has match up people via video and allow to talk in real-time, and a live public health tweetup sponsored by the de Beaumont Foundation; and th views of Chris Chanyasulkit, an APHA member and chair of the Association's Executive Board, on health.

The article offers news briefs related to actions on public health by American Public Health Association (APHA). Topics include proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to relax air pollution standards for power plant emissions would harm the health of Americans, including pregnant women and infants; and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the leading national public health body guiding public health, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.

The article reports that Millions of children globally have been orphaned because of parental or caregiver deaths from COVID-19. In a May letter, APHA and other members of the COVID Collaborative urged President Joe Biden to call on all countries to bring care to children orphaned due to the pandemic.

The article reports that Emboldened by inroads against COVID-19 vaccination requirements, a surge of bills in state legislatures are taking aim at routine vaccinations for children. What started as a campaign against workplace vaccination mandates for adults has expanded to target proven vaccines that protect children from dangerous diseases.

The article focuses on the National Public Health Week 2019 events. It discussed the celebrations like Yoga sessions in Chicago, mindfulness training in Rhode Island, shelter-dog walking in Santa Barbara, and a vegan challenge in Florida; and also highlights the variety of events that showed creativity of public health workers.

An interview with Brent Seales, a commputer scientist, is presented. He mentions the methods and the technology he had used in unraveling the damaged scrolls. He discusses the scanning data from tomography that helps him identify the letters from the scans. He also states how the project change his prospect on the software programming.

The article offers information on physicist Albert Einstein. Topics discussed include his general theory of relativity which explains black holes and gravitational waves; views of theoretical physicist James Overduin on the popularity of Einstein; and his research on relationship between matter and energy, Brownian motion, and photoelectric effect.

The article presents several topics related to science. Topics discussed include a question and answer related to how ear processes sounds coming from inside the body; a quotation on gravitational field by physicist James Overduin; a study published in the journal "Space Weather" which states that coronal mass ejections could result in blackouts.

The article focuses on strengthen public trust.

The article reports that school meals should be required to limit how much added sugar is served to students, according to APHA. Topics include considered that on January 31, 2022 APHA joined the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the American Heart Association in urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to include a sugar standard in school meal requirements.

The article reports that the U.S. cities and counties receives federal money on a scale that could be transformative for public health and social services. Topics include considered that the temporary windfall for local governments comes on the heels of harms caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which recently entered its third year in the U.S.

The article reports that New Orleans and New York City, resilience programs are providing jobs and skills for pandemic recovery, disaster preparedness and maintenance of public spaces. Topics include national disaster, these workers will be invaluable to reaching people who are not able to be reached by phone or internet; and Community-led resilience programs can serve regions that Federal Emergency Management Agency dollars seldom reach.

The article focuses on mental health workforce taxed during COVID-19 pandemic.

The article offers information related to a study published in the journal "Science Translational Medicine" that describes a computer model that predicted which 6-month-old infants would display symptoms for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The article informs that a 13 million-year-old skull from Kenya hints at what a common ancestor of all living apes looked like and mentions that the fossil found is from an infant, is the lineage's most complete skull between 7 million and 17 million years old.

The article offers information related to a study published in the journal "Nature Genetics" found seven genes linked to insomnia and concluded that lack of sleep hurts people's concentration, mood and health.

The article informs that an international team located genetic traces of Neanderthals and Denisovans, both distant hominin, who died off 40,000 years ago,using DNA filtering techniques that sifted through trillions of genetic fragments from plants and modern humans to pinpoint hominin sequences.

The article presents news briefs related to American Public Health Association (APHA). Topics discussed include information on H.R. 3755/S. 1975, the Women's Health Protection Act, which would create a statutory right for abortion providers to offer abortion care and for patients to receive it; rise in highway fatalities; and regulations on methane to protect human health and the environment.

The article discusses Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice, an initiative of APHA, the de Beaumont Foundation and the National Collaborative for Health Equity. Topics discussed include focus on topics such as law enforcement, economy, racial healing and relationship building; potential to improve health and address inequities; and impact of racism on community health.

The article reports that global COVID-19 vaccination rates are influenced by other factors aside from wealth, as of October 2021. Topics covered include the role of geography and population size in the success of vaccinations, as in the case of Bahrain, Singapore and Bhutan, the reasons why economically developing nations are succeeding and why Brazil is struggling despite being an upper middle income nation. It also cites the strategy of Morocco in acquiring and delivering vaccines.

The article offers Alliance of Professional Health Advocates news briefs. Topics include vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. is a major barrier to getting enough people immunized to defeat COVID-19, the ordinances making public buildings smokefree have helped reduce tobacco use and protect nonsmokers from the dangers of secondhand smoke, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deadly consequences of underfunding the public health system.

The article focuses on Americans without health insurance, a growing number of states are working to fill gaps by offering their residents another option for coverage. Topics include the states pursue government-led health insurance programs, and the government has sponsored health plans, also known as public options, allow people to buy health insurance from a program overseen by the state.

The article reports that Minnesota is poised to become one of the next states to launch its own public health corps. Thanks to a $4.2 million grant from Americorps, which is funding over 80 local and state organizations nationwide, state organizers are slated to launch the Minnesota Public Health Corps in August. ServeMinnesota, in partnership with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, will oversee the program.

The article reports that Researchers extracted data from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, between 2007 and 2019 on women who gave birth to an infant. About 2,300 women participated in the WIC program each year. Almost half were ages 21 to 30 and nearly 90% were not married.

The article reports that Benjamin Edwards, a geologist at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania has explored scores of volcanoes in British Columbia, Iceland, South America and Russia. It mentions Edwards and his team understand a volcano's climate history and better estimate flooding in nearby communities when snowcapped volcanoes erupt. It also mentions peak was drooling lava across the rugged, snowy terrain and studied how the flowing molten mass and snow do their dance.

The article looks at a study by researcher Florian Winau and others and published in periodical "Nature Immunology" which identified the specific molecule in the skin that plays a role in inflammation and mentions that CD1a comes in contact with plants' oily resin urushiol triggers inflammation.

The article reports that according to a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, tree-dwelling creature gray mouse lemur has been found to be closest living approximation in terms of evolutionary development of primitive primate fossils discovered in Gujarat, India.

The article reports that according to the U.S. geological survey, Oklahoma has experienced high magnitude of human-induced earthquakes because of hydraulic fracturing process and offers a map showing natural seismic hazard with human-induced earthquakes.

The article reports that two amateur archaeologists discovered a sword with a blade that was still sharp placing it in the late Nordic Bronze Age; and views of archaeologist Arne Hedegaard Andersen on the same.

The article reports that bacteria resistant to a medicine considered the last defense against superbugs has arrived in the U.S.; and mentions that a woman was infected with a strain of Escherichia coli that wards off many antibiotics like colistin has been considered as a last-resort drug.

The article presents the American Public Health Association advocates. Topics include the Capitol riot in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was an egregious act of violence against the U.S. government on American democracy, the climate change is a health emergency and immediate action needs to be taken to protect the health, and the U.S. public health workers have been working to immunize people against COVID-19 while also trying to inoculate Americans for other dangerous diseases.

The article offers information on supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, ethicists are striving to ensure that people at greatest risk for severe disease and death are prioritized. Topics include ethicists have been advising on COVID-19 vaccination trials, care in hospitals and, vaccine prioritization, and the health care personnel in the U.S. were recommended to be vaccinated first because of their important role on the front lines of the pandemic.

The article focuses on the impact of the war in Ukraine and other armed conflicts across the globe on public health services. Topics discussed include the humanitarian abuses resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the deaths and destruction resulting from conflicts in Myanmar and Yemen, and concerns of the medical community on increased morbidity and mortality as a result of violence.

An interview with Carole Johnson, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is presented. Topics discussed include the health equity strategies to be prioritized by the HRSA for its fiscal 2023 budget, lessons to be learned form the COVID-19 pandemic about U.S. health, and ways to to increase and retain the public health workforce.

The article presents information on the National Public Health Week (NPHW) celebrated by health advocates and professionals, students and community leaders, led by the American Public Health Association (APHA), across the U.S. from April 4 to 10, 2022. Topics discussed include the events' theme, the virtual activity sessions of APHA's Physical Activity Section, and a proclamation of the NPHW by U.S. President Joe Biden.

This section offers news briefs on public health research from the American Public Health Association in the U.S. as of June 1, 2022. These include a study showing the low number of COVID-19 testing sites in minority neighborhoods during the first wave of the pandemic, a study revealing that medical crowdfunding fails to generate funds for low-income and uninsured individuals, and the harassment and violence being experienced by public health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article presents the list of APHA ADVOCATES.