(2022-08-31). Mayo Clinic Minute: Helping your child with back-to-school anxiety. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Most kids are eager for the last day of school and the start of summer vacation. But this time of year, there are many students who might not look forward to returning to the classroom, in part because of separation anxiety. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/C_wvC0NAgy8 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 07) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. By the time the first…
(2022-08-31). National Institutes of Health renews Mayo Clinic's $48 million Clinical and Translational Science Award. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic announced today that its Center for Clinical and Translational Science has successfully renewed funding for its research grant from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for five more years. The funding award, totaling $48.2 million, is one of Mayo's largest NIH grants, supporting research and education across the institution at that aims to accelerate innovation to improve patient care and health for all people. "We…
(2022-08-31). University of Minnesota Teamsters picket, march against poverty wages. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — More than 300 University of Minnesota (UMN) service workers represented by Teamsters Local 320, along with members AFSCME, students, faculty, and others, protested on the school's campus, August 30, to demand an end to poverty wages and abusive employment practices. | Local 320 represents 1500 workers at UMN who clean buildings, service dormitories, maintain grounds, prepare food, maintain HVAC systems, care for research animals, drive trucks, and perform other activities across the university's five campuses. Many of the workers are Black, including immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia and…
(2022-08-31). U.S. murder rates still up in 2021: CNBC. ecns.cn There were 6 percent more murders nationally in 2021 than in 2020, a troubling statistic, but it was modest in comparison with the prior year, when the U.S. murder rate climbed nearly 30 percent, a year-over-year record, reported CNBC in mid-August.
(2022-08-31). Science Saturday: Researchers validate threshold for determining effectiveness of antidepressant treatment. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Over one-third of people diagnosed with major depressive disorder don't respond sufficiently to specific antidepressant treatments. As a result, often patients need to try different options until they find one that is effective. There are validated definitions of good treatment effects. But the definition of ineffective treatment has been less clear, says William Bobo, M.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic in Florida. "A common assumption is that a nonresponse to antidepressants is a total lack of any…
(2022-08-31). MBTA Orange Line shutdown: The breakdown of Boston-area public transit. wsws.org The shutdown of the Orange Line, combined with cutbacks in Boston-area bus routes, coincides with the new year of Boston Public Schools as well as the move-in of tens of thousands of college and university students.
(2022-08-31). Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse. indybay.org There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse.
(2022-08-31). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Police savagely attacked a protest over soaring fuel and food costs in Haiti, while teachers in Uruguay held a nationwide protest strike over budget cuts last week.
(2022-08-31). University of Michigan ends all COVID-19 protection measures as Fall semester begins. wsws.org As tens of thousands of students and staff return to U-M's campuses, the administration is taking further measures to uphold the homicidal ruling class policy of mass infection amid two pandemics.
(2022-08-31). Mayo Clinic Minute: The 3 best ways to keep kids healthy when heading back to school. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Making sure kids are prepared to head back to school means more than just getting them the school supplies they need. Caregivers also will want to make sure their students are on track to have a healthy school year and help them avoid many viral illnesses that tend to circulate when young people gather in classrooms and day care facilities.In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic's Children's…
(2022-08-30). Six Months Into Ukraine's Collapse, the World Has Changed Forever. globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-30). Recalculando la atención geoestratégica. globalizacion.ca El dron estadounidense General Atomics lanzó dos misiles R9-X al balcón de una casa en Kabul matando a Al-Zawahiri, el invisible líder de Al-Qaeda, quien había tomado las riendas tras el asesinato de Osama bin Laden. | El vehículo aéreo no…
(2022-08-30). Science Saturday: Mayo innovation, research at forefront of World War II victory. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A photograph taken from the air of "G-Whiz," the Mayo Clinic Dauntless Dive Bomber plane used for testing the G-suit and other innovations. If you watched "Top Gun: Maverick" this summer, you saw a fictional portrayal of how fighter pilots can perform incredible aerial maneuvers at high G-forces, or the force of gravity. Here's the story about the role Mayo Clinic had in enabling pilots to reach those heights and possibly win a war. In…
(2022-08-30). Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan Deepen Cooperation to Bypass Western Sanctions. globalresearch.ca
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(2022-08-30). Jameel Fund accelerates research to protect the world from respiratory diseases. imperial.ac.uk Pioneering research projects at Imperial have received new funding to help tackle the ongoing threat of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses.
(2022-08-30). Record attrition in Texas public schools exacerbates teacher shortage. wsws.org Teacher attrition soared to record highs for the 2021-22 school year amid crisis conditions exacerbated by the pandemic.
(2022-08-30). Outrage among Columbus teachers as union pushes through concessions contract. wsws.org After having called off the strike by 4, 0 public school teachers, nurses, librarians, councilors and other educators early Thursday morning, the union pushed through a contract Sunday which meets none of the teachers' basic demands.
(2022-08-30). China Space Station: Experimental cabinets work well. ecns.cn The Wentian space application system of China's Space Station has been working well since the lab was launched and started operation on July 24, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on Monday.
(2022-08-29). Macron Insulted Africans' Intelligence by Claiming That Multipolar Powers Manipulate Them. globalresearch.ca
(2022-08-29). Police Repress Demonstration Against Luma In Puerto Rico. popularresistance.org The Police of the State of Puerto Rico, a dependent territory of the United States, dispersed Thursday night a demonstration of dozens of Puerto Ricans in Old San Juan, who were staging a protest against LUMA Energy due to the constant power outages. | This is the most recent episode of the protests that have been shaking the Caribbean island for days, although it is the first one that culminated with a confrontation between demonstrators and police, and one person arrested. | The Teachers Federation also joined Thursday night's protest, as did the president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), Juan Dalm…