Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coronavirus response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, said that she received a “very uncomfortable” and “very difficult” phone call from Trump after speaking publicly about the spread of Covid-19. Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with the medical leaders of the war on Covid during a CNN special report “COVID WAR – The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out.” With recent studies having established the presence of nano and microplastic particles in the respiratory systems of both human and bird populations, new research has modeled what happens when people … March 10, 2024 • Jon Kabat-Zinn, who brought mindfulness meditation into mainstream medical settings, discusses how the centering practice can help with some of today’s widespread social problems. March 13, 2024 • The peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology says a pregnancy checkbox on national death certificates inflates the death rate.
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- As the scientific field of One Health research develops, it is also worth considering whether more formal frameworks for these studies could be adopted.
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