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Medical Xpress / Alcohol, sex and violence: A dangerous cocktail that makes young women vulnerable to HIV

South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with adolescent girls and young women ages 15–24 at the highest risk of getting HIV. HIV prevalence among girls and women in this age group is roughly double that of ...

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Medical Xpress / No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes, study finds

There is no statistically significant evidence that taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, during pregnancy negatively affects how early a child is born or a child's birth weight, according to new research led by environmental ...

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Medical Xpress / New research identifies challenges to human rights for people with disabilities during lockdown

Australia's health care system aims to protect society's most vulnerable and hidden people, including those with disabilities.

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Phys.org / Fourth-year vet students reveal clues to horse MEED and dog bone cancer

Texas Tech University's School of Veterinary Medicine fourth-year students Kayden Tanner and Marshall Mays have both been published in international journals after putting hundreds of hours into their research papers.

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Phys.org / Worried about booking a holiday abroad? How travel operators can provide reassurance

Flying abroad for a summer vacation is not as simple as it used to be. Geopolitical uncertainty has already disrupted flight schedules and fuel prices this year. For many, staying closer to home will seem like a sensible ...

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Medical Xpress / Coffee and heart health: How many cups of caffeinated coffee are safe to drink each day?

Previous studies have found that caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant and psychoactive substance, and coffee is the most common way people consume caffeine. The latest research supports the conclusion that, for ...

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Tech Xplore / Analysis reveals exponential increase in e-bike injuries in California

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that injuries involving electric bicycles, or e-bikes, have increased dramatically across California, rising from just two reported collisions in 2018 to 1,506 ...

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Tech Xplore / EV test drives are supposed to boost adoption—but they can backfire

One of the biggest obstacles to wider adoption of electric vehicles (EV) is completely invisible and unquantifiable: the belief in many consumers' minds that the range limitations of EVs make them a bad option. Doubts about ...

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Medical Xpress / Drug-resistant gonorrhea on the rise in Europe, ECDC warns

Alongside growing evidence of the domestic spread of such resistant strains in Europe over the past two years, this poses a significant challenge for future treatment options for one of the most common sexually transmitted ...

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Phys.org / Where do the world's biggest diamonds come from? Geology now has answers

Some of the most extraordinary gems ever found belong to a rare class of diamonds known as CLIPPIRs (Cullinan-like, Large, Inclusion-Poor, Pure, Irregular, Resorbed). They make up less than 1% of all diamonds on Earth and ...

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Phys.org / Researchers advance tech that could help scientists detect habitable worlds beyond our solar system

Are we alone in the universe? For scientists working on NASA's proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, that question is no longer purely philosophical. It is increasingly becoming an engineering problem.

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Phys.org / Scientists map how the flu virus rewires the human cell from the inside

Researchers at EMBL Hamburg and collaborators at the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) have mapped how the influenza A virus rewires infected human cells in unprecedented detail. To do this, the ...

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