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Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. We invite you to order a delicious sandwich for lunch today and join Isa Cueto and Lev Fascher for office hours as they discuss alcohol consumption as a public health crisis, industry lobbying, and potential policy solutions. 1pm EDT. Questions are welcome! As for Mr. Fauci’s testimony, keep these questions in mind Anthony Fauci will appear before a Senate committee this morning to once again answer questions about the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s former top infectious disease expert was…

A survey of infant foods available at 21 Texas grocery stores found that ultra-processed products dominated the shelves. Four out of five items fell into that category, and 49% did not meet at least one nutrient benchmark in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Nutrition Promotion Profile Model (NPPM) for commercial foods for children aged 6 to 36 months. The findings come as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers updated rules covering front-of-pack nutritional information, health product claims, and food marketing to children. Unlike some countries, the United States does not require warning labels on foods that contain high levels…

People who exhibit traits of a particular type of narcissism experience different levels of personal well-being, depending on the cultural values ​​of the society in which they live. While admiration-seeking is consistently associated with greater happiness around the world, more hostile forms of narcissism impose greater psychological strain on individuals living in highly individualistic countries. These findings were recently published in the Journal of Personality. Psychologists generally view grandiose narcissism as a combination of two different behavioral strategies rather than a single trait. The first strategy is narcissistic praise. This includes a confident approach to enhancing one’s own image, characterized…

The Angelman Syndrome Foundation has partnered with startup Citizen Health to provide families with access to Ari, an artificial intelligence-powered advocate designed for the rare disease community. The organization said ASF was one of the first foundations to bring AI advocacy tools directly to families. “A fundamental part of ASF is how we make your journey easier. So if there’s anything we can do at the Foundation to help ease that burden a little bit, we’re happy to do it. This partnership was a really natural alignment in our mission,” said Amanda Moore, CEO of the Angelman Syndrome Foundation. In…

Europa has fascinated scientists for decades because it may harbor a vast ocean of liquid water beneath its frozen surface. This buried ocean makes Jupiter’s icy moons one of the solar system’s most promising locations for investigating whether conditions suitable for life exist beyond Earth. But new research led by Rutgers University scientist Rugendra Ojha shows that getting materials from Europa’s deep oceans may be much more difficult than previously thought. Testing potential routes through Europa’s ice In a study published in natural astronomyOjha and his colleagues used computer simulations to examine whether water from Europa’s global ocean could migrate…

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the stories. Please take a look at our AI policy and give us your feedback. Matt Long stood before the Granbury City Council at its April city planning meeting and opposed the influx of data centers planned for Hood County, likening them to spiritual abominations. “We consider ourselves a Christian city within a Christian county,” said Long, a member of the county’s Development Commission who lives near Granbury. “As a Christian, do you think trading 2,100 acres of natural beauty for a godless technological complex brings you closer to creation,…

Earth’s hidden “golden kitchen” may be operating far beneath the ocean floor. Island arcs are series of volcanoes that develop above subduction zones where one oceanic plate subducts beneath another, and are often unusually rich in gold. Scientists have long debated why these regions become so rich. A new study led by Dr. Christian Timm, a marine geologist at the GEOMAR Kiel-Helmholtz Center for Marine Research, provides a deeper explanation. “Our study shows that the melting hydrous mantle beneath the island arc is the primary driver of gold enrichment,” Tim says. “In these environments, the mantle behaves like a multi-stage…

On a recent summer day, rain poured down outside climatologist David Easterling’s Hendersonville home. He made his way through the garage to the back door.”This is a standard 4-inch rain gauge. You can buy it, but it’s semi-official,” Easterling said as he stepped out onto the wooden deck to explain. There, a plastic jug-like device was collecting water droplets.It’s a warm July afternoon. Rain from this storm is barely covering the bottom of the gauge. Almost two years ago, Hurricane Helen brought unprecedented destruction to Western North Carolina. At that point Helen’s rainfall was nearly filling the gauge.”I measured it…

The Trump administration appears to be doing everything it can to give the coal industry everything it wants. These efforts may not succeed, but unless legal challenges force a change in direction, they could keep a dying industry on life support and pass on the economic and environmental costs of doing so to the American people. The National Coal Council, an advisory group that includes executives from coal mining companies and major U.S. power companies, met with Trump administration officials last week and laid out the following policy: 19 Recommendations. One of its key demands is for the government to…

Rising temperatures often disrupt sleep. Hot nights can make it difficult to fall asleep and cause you to wake up more often during the night, making you less rested the next day. One reason for this is thermoregulation, the body’s ability to maintain internal temperature within a safe range. Sleep is closely related to body temperature. In order to fall asleep and stay asleep, your body typically needs to lose some heat. This becomes difficult when the bedroom is hot. And British summers are getting hotter. The Met Office reports that the chance of temperatures exceeding 40C in the UK…