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Some doses of blue light from screens may not affect your sleep

Blue light, which is given off by smartphone and laptop screens, is known to affect our sleep, but that might only happen at certain doses

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2009 Margaret Williams, PhD; Claressa Lucas, PhD;Tatiana Travis, BS Under a moderately-high magnification of 6500X, this colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted a grouping of Gram-negative Legionella pneumophila bacteria. Please see PHIL 11092 through 11140 for additional SEMs of these organisms, specifically PHIL 11121 for a black and white version of this image. You?ll note that a number of these bacteria seem to display an elongated-rod morphology. L. pneumophila are known to most frequently exhibit this configuration when grown in broth, however, they can also elongate when plate-grown cells age, as it was in this case, especially when they?ve been refrigerated. The usual L. pneumophila morphology consists of stout, ?fat? bacilli, which is the case for the vast majority of the organisms depicted here. These bacteria originated on a 1 week-old culture plate (+/- 1 day), which had incubated a single colony, at 37?C upon a buffered charcoal yeast extract (BCYE) medium with no antibiotics.

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Legionnaires鈥� disease may be cause of mystery pneumonia in Argentina

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In some parts of the world artificial trans fats are added to products like pastries to extend their shelf life at a low cost, but they have been linked to heart disease

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Denmark’s ban of artificial trans fats saved 1200 lives over 16 years

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X-rays have diagnosed nine people with pneumonia of an unknown origin in the Tucum谩n province of northwestern Argentina

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What we know about the mysterious pneumonia in Argentina

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A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic inside Trinity Evangelic Lutheran Church in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S, on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2022. U.S. regulators cleared second booster??doses??of Covid-19 vaccine from??Moderna Inc.??and the partnership of??Pfizer Inc.??and??BioNTech SE for adults 50 and older, making millions more people eligible for the shots as concern grows about a potential new wave of infections. Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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US authorises the use of dual-variant covid-19 vaccine boosters

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An artificial intelligence could gauge how much pain a laboratory mouse is in based on its grimaces, potentially aiding the development of pain-relieving drugs

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AI that can see pain in a mouse’s face could aid drug development

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NHS ambulances at a hospital in London

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There are thousands more UK deaths than usual and we don鈥檛 know why

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^BHormone replacement therapy.^b Close-up of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) pills in a circular dispenser. HRT pills are synthetic hormones used to treat menopausal women. They counteract the hormone deficiency that occurs at menopause. These pills contain oestrogen, and often progestogen, drugs. HRT helps to prevent ^Iosteoporosis,^i ^Iatherosclerosis^i and ^Iatrophic vaginitis^i (where the vagina becomes thin and dry). Pills are taken daily on a monthly basis to coincide with the menstrual cycle. Adverse effects include nausea, tenderness of the breasts, fluid retention and leg cramps.

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Outdated research on HRT is letting people down

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Scientists home in on genetic causes of uncombable hair syndrome

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Should you take HRT? Here’s how to think clearly about the risks

Hormone replacement therapy has a bad reputation because of potential risks to long-term health. A new look at the evidence could change our relationship with HRT - and the menopause

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Compression socks may prevent nausea and loose bowels during marathons

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Soy-heavy vegan diet may reduce hot flushes in postmenopausal women

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Drugs that mutate viruses to kill them could make them more dangerous

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Synthetic mouse embryos with rudimentary brain grown in the lab

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