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After shingles damaged her vision, this former eye surgeon looked for a way to keep it from happening to others

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  At the time, in 2008, Cohen was director of the Cornea Service at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. But the next day, as she was pushing her hair back on that side of her head, she noticed a blister near the hairline. She knew immediately what it was: shingles. 

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Opinion: New mental health parity laws are already under threat

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The ink had scarcely dried on  new federal rules  for enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 when U.S. health plans  threatened potential legal action  to block them. 

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Three scientists win Kavli Prize for nanoscience in biomedicine

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Of the 65 laureates awarded the prize since 2008, 10 have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize. The $1 million Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for significant contributions and breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience once every two years. Read the rest…

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Smoke exposure from California’s wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says

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They estimated that somewhere between 52,480 and 55,710 people in California died prematurely between 2008-2018 due to chronic exposure to the dangerous particulate matter in wildfire smoke. In a paper published Friday in Science Advances , researchers at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health tried to chip away at that knowledge gap.

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Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

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million employed people (both within the health care field and outside) observed from 2008 to 2019. While other research has examined the incidence of mental health issues and suicide risk among physicians, the same isn’t necessarily true of other health care professions.

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Mistakes happen in research papers. But corrections often don’t

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Five studies co-authored by Tessier-Lavigne are now under the microscope for containing alleged altered images: a 1999 Cell study , a 2008 paper in the EMBO Journal, a 2003 Nature study, and two studies published in 2001 in Science.

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Cross-border ‘twinning programs’ may reduce survival disparities for childhood leukemia

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In 2008, researchers and clinicians at Rady Children’s Hospital, the University of California, San Diego, and Hospital General-Tijuana created one of these twinning programs, where two “sister hospitals” share training, expertise, research, and other resources for the mutual benefit of patients in both countries.

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