Tina Saey
Senior Writer, Molecular Biology at Science News
Senior writer covering molecular biology for @ScienceNews Geek. Lover of science fact and fiction. Standard disclaimers may apply. Mileage will vary. She/her
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3 days ago |
autism.einnews.com | Tina Saey |Laura Sanders |Aimee Cunningham
Autism is more common than ever before, a new report suggests. As of 2022, about 1 in 31 children in the United States were diagnosed with autism by the time they were 8 years old, researchers reported online April 15 in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Previous studies had put the number at 1 in 36 in 2020 and 1 in 150 in 2000.
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2 weeks ago |
snexplores.org | Tina Saey
advocacy: Work performed to support some cause, idea or program. People who do this work are known as advocates. For instance, advocates might campaign for some change, speak up on behalf of someone or something in court (or other public forum), or write commentaries (opinion pieces) on a topic for some news outlet. average: (in science) A term for the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of a group of numbers that is then divided by the size of the group.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencenews.org | Tina Saey
The death of a second child from measles is raising alarm bells anew that an ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious disease is larger than official numbers suggest. And it comes at a time when the Trump administration’s widespread cuts to public health funding and jobs are gutting the ability to tackle infectious diseases. The child, who died April 3 from measles pulmonary failure, was unvaccinated and had no underlying health conditions, Texas health officials announced April 6.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencenews.org | Tina Saey
At 6 a.m. on March 25, Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services department, got a devastating email. Millions of dollars in federal grants that the health agency had were suddenly gone. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had just rescinded about $12 billion from thousands of state and local health agencies, including Huang’s.
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3 weeks ago |
sciencenews.org | Tina Saey
Such electric spikes are a surprise because only nerve cells were thought to communicate this way. These signals move at a snail’s pace compared to nerve impulses and can be detected at least 500 micrometers away — about the distance of 40 cells — researchers report in the March 25 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The pulsing electrical waves may help injured cells’ neighbors prepare to heal wounds.
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