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A new network meta-regression analyzes data from 1980 to 2019 on police violence in the United States.

You have covid i understand, you have antibodies. >> yeah. >> sean: correct me if im wrong weve been lectured to follow the science, the cleveland clinic said if you had covid you dont need the vaccine. that came out in the last week and a half. thats number one. number two, if people are vaccinated, i thought they were supposed to get protected. in other words they made their decision. so it shouldnt make any difference what your decision is, should it? >> no, i completely agree with you. if th...

Have antibodies. >> yeah. >> sean: correct me if im wrong weve been lectured to follow the science, the cleveland clinic said if you had covid you dont need the vaccine. that came out in the last week and a half. thats number one. number two, if people are vaccinated, i thought they were supposed to get protected. in other words they made their decision. so it shouldnt make any difference what your decision is, should it? >> no, i completely agree with you. if they took that vaccine and feel saf...

 E-Mail The human heart contracts about 70 times per minute, while that of a rat contracts over 300 times; what accounts for this difference? In a new study publishing 10th June in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, led by Michael Geeves and Mark Wass of the University of Kent and Leslie Leinwand from the University of Colorado Boulder, reveal the molecular differences in the heart muscle protein beta myosin that underly the large difference in contraction velocity between the two species....

Malaria, a disease caused mainly by the parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, is associated with over 400,000 deaths each year. Previously, the spleen was assumed to mostly play a role in parasite destruction, as it eliminates malaria parasites after antimalarial treatment. A study published by Steven Kho and Nicholas Anstey at Menzies School of Health Research, Australia, and international colleagues, suggests that in chronic P. vivax infections, malaria parasites survive and re...

 E-Mail A nationwide study in Sweden estimates the elevated risk of advanced or fatal prostate cancer among relatives of men with the disease, providing new data that could help refine guidelines for the age at which screening should begin. Mahdi Fallah and Elham Kharazmi of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues present these new findings in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. Clinical guidelines for the age to start prostate cancer screening aim t...

 E-Mail Stigma and high care needs can present barriers to the provision of high-quality primary care for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and those prescribed opioids for chronic pain. A study published in PLOS Medicine by Tara Gomes at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michaels Hospital, Toronto, Canada and colleagues suggests that people treated for an opioid use disorder were less likely to find a new primary care provider (PCP) within one year of termination of enrolment wi...

Many organisms in need of conservation are still unknown or lumped in with similar species, which potentially interferes with conservation efforts. In a new study published June 1 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, Jane Melville of Museums Victoria, and her colleagues present a new return-on-investment approach to best direct efforts to identify new species before they are lost.

 E-Mail IMAGE: PET imaging of a participant following experimental P. vivax infection. The arrowhead highlights increased glucose uptake in the spleen view more  Credit: Woodford J, Gillman A, Jenvey P, Roberts J, Woolley S, Barber BE, et al. (2021) Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in experimental human malaria to identify organ-specific changes... The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax may accumulate in the spleen soon after infection to a greater extent tha...

 E-Mail A new analysis of adults aged 80 years and older shows that a healthier lifestyle is associated with a lower risk of cognitive impairment, and that this link does not depend on whether a person carries a particular form of the gene APOE. Xurui Jin of Duke Kunshan University in Jiangsu, China, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. The APOE gene comes in several different forms, and people with a form known as APOE ε4 have an increased risk of ...