Anne Arundel County could see nearly $50 million for capital projects flow from the state, depending on how Gov. Larry Hogan’s capital budget is amended in the coming weeks. The introduced version includes money for the new high school in Crofton, an electrical infrastructure update for the correctional center in Jessup, and flood mitigation on Annapolis’ City Dock.
February 5, 2021
Young Black transplant recipients are less likely to have the financial and social resources they need to fully recover after surgery.
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Doctors have long known that Black patients have worse outcomes after heart transplants than members of other racial groups, but a new study has shed light on exactly which segment of the population is skewing the numbers. It turns out that older Black heart transplant patients have outcomes similar to non-Black patients, but young Black adults fare much worse.
In fact, Black patients in the 18–30 age bracket are twice as likely to die in the first year after their transplant, and 1.5 times as likely to die five years post-transplant, according to the paper, which was published February 2021 in the journal
Scientific American
Hints of Twisted Light Offer Clues to Dark Energy’s Nature
Cosmologists suggest that an exotic substance called quintessence could be accelerating the Universe’s expansion but the evidence is still tentative
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A map of the Universe’s cosmic microwave background radiation, measured by the Planck space observatory. Credit: ESA
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Cosmologists say that they have uncovered hints of an intriguing twisting in the way that ancient light moves across the Universe, which could offer clues about the nature of dark energy the mysterious force that seems to be pushing the cosmos to expand ever-faster.
They suggest that the twisting of light, which they identified in data on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) collected by the Planck space telescope, and the acceleration of the Universe could be produced by a cosmic ‘quintessence’, an exotic substance that pervades the cosmos. Such a discovery would require a major revision of current theories
Young, Black patients at higher risk of death in the first year after a heart transplant
Young, Black adults are more than twice as likely to die in the first year after a heart transplant when compared to same-age, non-Black heart transplant recipients, according to new research published today in
Circulation:
Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.
Research has consistently shown that Black heart transplant recipients have a higher risk of death following heart transplantation compared to non-Black recipients. Black patients have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease at younger ages, and therefore, they may need heart transplants at younger ages.