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In a new study presented to heart specialists from around the world, researchers at the Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute in Salt Lake City found that simple “nudges” in the form of texts, emails and phone calls, not only help patients fill that first statin prescription, but also continue to help them take their medications over the long term.

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Keywords: statin adherence, statin guidelines, Statin Use, Heart Disease, Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute , intermountain healthcare, nudge, nudge theory, nudge application, American Heart Association, american heart association scientific sessions, Heart Research, Medical Research

The tread on the tyre is worn out, new tyres are needed. Everyday life for many drivers. But where do these lost centimetres of tyre tread "disappear" to? As micro-rubbers, they mainly end up in soil and water and, to a small extent, in the air. And the amount of these particles in our environment is anything but small, as Empa researchers have now calculated.

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Keywords: Marine Life, Sustaibability, Coral Bleaching, Coral Ecology, Coral Ecosystems, Marine Aquaculture, enviromental research, Enviromental Health, Environmental Science

A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, published by Elsevier, found that nearly two-thirds of infants (61 percent) and almost all toddlers (98 percent) consumed added sugars in their average daily diets, primarily in the form of flavored yogurts (infants) and fruit drinks (toddlers).

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Keywords: journal of the academy of nutrition and dietetics, added sugars, Infants, Toddlers, fruit drinks , eating patterns, kirsten herrick, Cavities, Obesity

Schistosomiasis is one of the most devastating tropical diseases in the world, second only to malaria in its prevalence. The only treatment currently used is extremely limited in its effectiveness and in who it can help. The Newmark Lab wants to develop something that protects people from being infected in the first place.

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Keywords: Schistosomiasis, Parasite, Parasitic Disease, regenerative biology, Basic Science, Stem Cell, Neglected Tropical Diseases, neglected diseases, Tropical Disease

Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a five-year study assessing the pain-relieving effects of cannabis and cannabinoids, the chemicals in the cannabis plant.

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Heliobacter pylori infection, quite common around the world, is linked to gastric cancer. Now, a Penn study shows that successfully wiping out the infection lowers the cancer risk.

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Keywords: Gastric Cancer, Gastroenterology, Heliobacter pylori, Penn Medicine

In this Q&A, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Dan Jacobson talks about his team’s work on a genomic selection algorithm, his vision for the future of environmental genomics, and the space where simulation meets AI.

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Keywords: AI, high-performance computing , climate and environmental sciences, Energy and Environmental Science, Supercomputing

Delivering palliative care to rural, frontier areas is difficult, but the lack of infrastructure makes developing programs for three Northern Plains Indian tribes even more challenging.

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Keywords: Palliative Care, American Indian health, Northern Plains, Walking Forward, Avera Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, National Institutes Of Health (NIH) And The National Cancer Institute (NCI)