IPHA receives state grant to support community health workers
The Illinois Public Health Association has received a multi-year state grant to create a campaign to support and promote community health workers.
Duckworth renews effort to encode IVF protections into federal law
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., has reintroduced her proposal that aims to create a statutory right to in vitro fertilization.
Opinion | ‘You Can Create Some Scary Sounding Headlines’: What We Heard This Week
“If you only report on the nurses leaving, and don’t account for those who are coming in, you can create some scary sounding headlines.” — David Auerbach, PhD, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the rebound of the registered nurse workforce following a pandemic slump. “It’s still the reality to the patient, and to […]
Mushroom Coffee Has Become A Viral Craze. But Is It Just B.S.?
Illustration: Jianan Liu/ HuffPost Ground mushrooms and coffee beans are paired together to create this buzzy beverage, which is said to help with stress, immune function, jitteriness and more. In the name of mental and physical health, more and more brands are infusing coffee with blended-up mushrooms, sparking a viral craze online. Known simply as […]
8 Things Productivity Experts Would Never, Ever Do Before Work
JGI/Jamie Grill via Getty Images How you start your morning can create productive (or unproductive) momentum for the day. There are few things more frustrating than spending hours and hours on a task that should have been quick. But that’s the reality of an unproductive day at work, which is an all-too-common occurrence for many […]
Engineers discover method to create upward water fountain in deep water: Fountain created by lasers, Marangoni Effect is the cause
A pair of University of Houston engineers has discovered that they can create upward fountains in water by shining laser beams on the water’s surface. Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH, and his postdoctoral student Feng Lin, attribute the finding to a phenomenon known as the Marangoni effect, which causes convection […]
High-resolution lab experiments show how cells ‘eat’: Study solves a 40-year-old problem in cell biology
A new study shows how cell membranes curve to create the “mouths” that allow the cells to consume things that surround them. “Just like our eating habits basically shape anything in our body, the way cells ‘eat’ matters for the health of the cells,” said Comert Kural, associate professor of physics at The Ohio State […]
Sensor spies hideouts for ?virus replication: An antiviral, found in some people’s cells, outwits an immune escape plan used by several dangerous viruses
While some types of RNA viruses cloak themselves to hide inside a cell and create copies of themselves, a “detective enzyme” might be attuned to their whereabouts. A slight variation in their genomic code gives some people’s cells the capacity to produce this sensor. Many positive-strand RNA viruses share a strategy to avoid detection by […]