Public Health Officials Move To Protect Native Americans Against Measles Outbreak
26 Jul
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Public Health Officials Move To Protect Native Americans Against Measles Outbreak

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RAPID CITY, S.D. — Native American tribes and health organizations are responding to concerns about low measles vaccination rates and patients’ difficulty getting care as an outbreak of the disease spreads around the country. They’re hosting mobile vaccine clinics, running social media campaigns, making sure health providers are vaccinated, reaching out to the parents of unvaccinated children, and hosting online training sessions. The push to ensure Native American communities are protected from the virus comes as the U.S. is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since 1992. The South Dakota health department announced in early June that the first case in the state was an adult from the Rapid City area. Cassandra Palmier and her son, Makaito Cuny, have benefited from this outreach. Palmier jumped at the opportunity to get her 5-year-old vaccinated after learning that a mobile clinic...
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Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to keep us healthy
24 Jul
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Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to keep us healthy

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Health Many people like to check that they have walked 10,000 steps over the course of a day, but falling short of that target still seems to bring serious health benefits By Chris Stokel-Walker Monitoring daily step counts can be an easy way of gauging how active you have beenVolkerpreusser/Alamy LONDON, UK – 25th July 2025 – For years, the widely promoted target of 10,000 steps a day has been the golden standard for health enthusiasts. However, emerging research and a growing consensus among medical professionals suggest that a more achievable goal of 7,000 steps daily may be perfectly adequate for maintaining good health and significantly reducing the risk of chronic diseases. The findings, which challenge the ubiquitous 10,000-step recommendation (often attributed to a marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer in the 1960s), offer a welcome dose of realism for...
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Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent
24 Jul
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Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent

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The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment, health care, and more. But as the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term have unfolded, these scientists say they have found themselves as pawns in what they call a strongly antiscience administration.Some are speaking out publicly. Several hundred staffers at the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA have banded together to write to their leaders and other government officials. The resulting letters, published by the nonprofit organization Stand Up for Science, decry deep cuts at the agencies and changing priorities that belie their traditional missions and go far beyond the shifts that typically occur under new presidents. (A fourth letter, made public late July 22 by the New York...
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Excessive yawning is telling you about these health dangers
23 Jul
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Excessive yawning is telling you about these health dangers

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We believe yawning is a natural process. You’d be surprised to know that while yawning occasionally is quite normal, yawning too much is not. When excessive yawning becomes a part of your daily routine, it could be indicating an underlying problem What happens when you yawn? When you yawn, you open your mouth wide and breathe in air, filling your lungs. Your eardrums stretch, and extra oxygen is carried to your brain and other parts of the body. A yawn can be both long and short in duration. What does yawning do? It increases our alertness by forcing oxygen and blood into our brain. That is why it happens when we are less alert or tired. We yawn when we go to bed at night, when we wake up or when we are bored as in these situations our brain becomes...
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