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Founder of the cancer advocacy organization: Rowaca Cancer Group

• Living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development is linked with an increased risk of early death

  By thespecimennews on February 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Prior studies have found connections between UOGD activities and increased human exposure to harmful substances in both air and water, as well as connections between UOGD exposure and adverse prenatal, respiratory, cardiovascular, and carcinogenic health outcomes.

• 2021 Tied for 6th Warmest Year in Continued Trend, NASA Analysis Shows

  By thespecimennews on February 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  According to NASA’s temperature record, Earth in 2021 was about 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.1 degrees Celsius) warmer than the late 19th-century average, the start of the industrial revolution.

• Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wiki Unseen to improve information about Black culture and history on Wikipedia

  By thespecimennews on February 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Wiki Unseen will help address the visual and written underrepresentation of several Black historical figures on Wikipedia and in the media repository Wikimedia Commons. 

• Bill Gates warned about a pandemic; and enough about microchips, he says

  By thespecimennews on February 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Bill Gates has been worried about a pandemic hitting the world for decades. So much so, his foundation spent millions creating fictional scenarios for world leaders to troubleshoot in which mutating viruses infected humans and killed tens of millions before… Read More ›

• Common Skin Bacteria Found Beneficial Against Drying, Aging

  By thespecimennews on February 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The bacterium’s new image is aided by research findings just published by NIAID scientists and colleagues in Cell Host and Microbe.

• COVID-19 increases the risk of pregnancy complications

  By thespecimennews on February 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  “The findings underscore the need for women of child-bearing age and pregnant individuals to be vaccinated and to take other precautions against becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2,” said Diana Bianchi, M.D., director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),

• Suicides by drug overdose increased among young people, elderly people, and Black women, despite overall downward trend

  By thespecimennews on February 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Nearly 92,000 people died from drug overdoses overall in the U.S. in 2020, representing the largest increase ever recorded in a calendar year and reflects a nearly five-fold increase in the rate of overdose deaths since 1999.