Suicide Rose in 2021 After Curious Decline in 2020
Suicide rates inched up slightly from 2020 to 2021, driven primarily by a higher rate of male suicides, according to provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. The 4% increase reflected 45,979 deaths by suicide in 2020 compared with 47,646 in 2021, for age-adjusted rates of 13.5 and 14.0 per 100,000, respectively, […]
First-Time Cesarean Deliveries Increased in Recent Years
Cesarean deliveries have increased in the U.S. over the last few years, driven by a rise in patients who underwent first-time C-sections, according to a CDC report. While the rate of primary C-sections fluctuated from 2016 to 2019, it increased from 2019 to 2021 among women in all age groups, reported Michelle Osterman, MHS, of […]
New light-powered catalysts could aid in manufacturing
Chemical reactions that are driven by light offer a powerful tool for chemists who are designing new ways to manufacture pharmaceuticals and other useful compounds. Harnessing this light energy requires photoredox catalysts, which can absorb light and transfer the energy to a chemical reaction. MIT chemists have now designed a new type of photoredox catalyst […]
Warming Atlantic drives right whales towards extinction
Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protected habitat, exposing the animals to more lethal ship strikes, disastrous commercial fishing entanglements and greatly reduced calving rates. Without improving its management, the right whale populations will decline and potentially become extinct in the coming decades, according to […]