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Study finds ATV-related head and neck injuries among youth continue to remain high

Eurekalert.org 

A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital analyzed data regarding ATV-related head and neck injuries treated in U.S. emergency departments from 1990 through 2014 involving patients younger than 18 years of age.

UT southwestern levels the playing field for testicular cancer patients

Eurekalert.org 

DALLAS - Aug. 10, 2020 - By offering the same level of care and expertise to two very different populations, UT Southwestern physicians were able to eliminate the sociodemographic disparities in survival and cancer recurrence rates typically seen nationally in testicular cancer patients.



KIST finds clue to improve artificial vision for patients with retinitis pigmentosa

Eurekalert.org 

A Korean research team has reported important findings that could potentially improve the performance of retinal prostheses creating artificial vision for blind individuals. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) had found retinal neural signals arising from electric stimulation are altered depending on disease progression in mice affected by outer retinal degeneration. This research was done in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital.

New treatment targets found for blinding retinal disease

Eurekalert.org 

When the eye isn't getting enough oxygen in the face of common conditions like premature birth or diabetes, it sets in motion a state of frenzied energy production that can ultimately result in blindness, and now scientists have identified new points where they may be able to calm the frenzy and instead enable recovery.

Berkeley Lab science snapshots

Eurekalert.org 

Subtropical weather phenomenon likely to bring greater rainfall - and drought - by 2100. A Q&A with scientist Bin Wang on how Berkeley Lab is helping cities prepare for a major shift in our transportation and grid sectors. Berkeley Lab founder, cyclotron inventor, and Nobel laureate Ernest Lawrence, honored with a memorial highway in his home state.

Games of Chance

CBC 

What are the odds that your grandmother met your grandfather, that your mother met your father, and that now you exist? We explore the role chance plays in our lives, from being born to winning the lottery.

A Whole Stack of Memories

CBC 

What's your first memory of being alive? Are you swinging at a pinata at your 4th birthday party? Are you throwing a snowball at your pet cat? We explore why we remember some things and forget others.

Greed (Pt.7 of Seven Deadly Sins)

CBC 

We explore what has been called the root of all evil, the mother of all sins: greed. A man thinks he's struck gold with a new career cycling tourists around New York City, and Jonathan is greedy for experience as he tries to cram 7000 years of history into a 3 day visit to China.

Learn Some Manners

CBC 

Do you clip your fingernails in public? Chew with your mouth open? Interrupt people? We speak with manners expert Henry Alford about etiquette in the modern world.

AP Top U.S. News at 12:21 a.m. EDT

Wtop.com 

Puerto Ricans, upset at botched primary, demand answers States on hook for billions under Trump’s unemployment plan No parties, no…

AP Top Political News at 12:40 a.m. EDT

Wtop.com 

Trump end run around Congress raises questions on his claims States on hook for billions under Trump’s unemployment plan Pelosi…

Zimbabwe Wants to Raise Money Through a Sovereign Bond. This is a Terrible Idea

The National Interest 

Misheck Mutize

Zimbabwe, Africa

Instead, Zimbabwe should focus on demonstrating the political will to restore business confidence.

The Zimbabwean government recently signed an agreement to pay 4,500 white farmers US$3.5 billion for infrastructure improvements on the land expropriated by the government during the chaotic land reform programme of 1997/8.

The initiative shows commitment to constitutionalism and respect for property rights and restoring the rule of law. Читать дальше...

It was WWII not the New Deal that rescued the US economy

Scoop 

Damien Grant writes: Few myths are as damaging, however, as that surrounding Franklin Roosevelt and his ‘New Deal’ of the 1930s. Most readers, guided by legend and popular wisdom, will believe that FDR’s big government programmes were responsible for ending the Great Depression. … Hoover was quick to action, pushing large scale capital works and […]

Tablet interactive: Coronavirus outbreak

Sydney Morning Herald 

PM doubts border restrictions will lift before Christmas; Australia records deadliest day; NSW's reluctance to move aged care residents to hospital "intolerable", commission hears. News updates here.





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