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Scientific American  Brood X Cicadas Could Cause a Bird Baby Boom Psychological Trauma is the Next Crisis for Coronavirus Health Workers How Doctors and Nurses Manage Coronavirus Grief Smithsonian The Peculiar 100-Plus-Year History of Convalescent Plasma The Verge  Recycling Plants Are Catching on Fire, and Lithium-Ion Batteries are to Blame The New York Times, Climate Newsletter  One thing you can do: Help to preserve forests One thing you can do: Talk to your children about climate change One thing we can do: Switch Light Bulbs What if we all ate a bit less meat? How to buy carbon offsets One thing you can do: Opt for the carwash One thing you can do: Rethink the roses One thing you can do: Choose winter produce wisely One thing you can do: Use the dishwasher Huffington Post Palm Oil is in Half Your Groceries and Destroys Forests. Can We Fix That? Should Gasoline Come With A Climate Change Warning Label? These Cities Think So Corporations are Waking Up to the Climate Crisis, But It’s Not Enough Climate Change Is Threatening Our Jobs—And Most Companies Are Doing Nothing Texas Climate News When it comes to carbon neutrality, Texas schools have a long way to go Climate-changing methane emissions climb in West Texas, other oil/gas areas Climate change plus looser pesticide rules may imperil declining Texas bees Yes, Texas summers really are hotter, more humid today than 40 years ago Medscape Medical News Unmatched Doctors: How Big Is the Problem, and What Can Be Done? ‘Dreck’ to Drama: How the Media Handled, and Got Handled, By Covid How to Make Resident Mental Healthcare Stigma-Free First Cybersecurity Chief of Medical Devices Takes the Reins at the FDA Doctors Publish Paper on COVID-19 Protocol; Experts Unconvinced Hospitals Admit Fewer COVID-19 Patients After Lessons Learned Doctors Say Their COVID-19 Protocol Saves Lives. Others Want Proof. Sexist Description in Surgical Textbook Highlight Bias in Medicine, Physicians Say Dexamethasone for COVID-19: Some Hospitals Wait to Change Practice Most of Fed’s Remdesivir to be Distributed by End of Month Remdesivir Shortens COVID-19 Time to Recovery in Published Study What are the Fed’s Plans for Distributing Remdesivir?  Hospitals Update Hydroxychloroquine Protocols After FDA Warnings In Pursuit of Real Coronavirus Numbers Silence Over Safety? Muzzling Clinicians a Public Health Issue Urine Collection Cups to Get Red-Carpet Treatment at Oscars ‘G-Spot’ Slide Ignites Outrage About Content at Conference Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News A Closer Look at Exact Sciences, The Company Behind Cologuard COVID-19 Pandemic Forces Hold for GI Trials Fewer Women Receive Liver Transplants Than Men GI Practices Scramble to Cope with COVID-19 Recommendations for Children With Celiac Disease Need Update Study of Costs and Risks of Prophylactic Clipping Finds Threshold Do Advanced Endoscopy Fellowships Better Prepare Physicians for Endoscopic Mucosal Resection? Discover Magazine Cancer Is On The Rise Among Young People How Caffeine and Alcohol Can Make Your Mental Health Worse With More People Getting Outside This Summer, Scientists Wonder if Lyme Disease Cases Will Jump How Close Are We To Making Babies from Bone Marrow? How Antidepressants Work is Still a Mystery Scientists Don’t Understand What Do COVID-19 Antibody Tests Show—and Can The Results Be Trusted? Is Herd Immunity Our Best Weapon Against COVID-19? Mild Cases of COVID-19 May Have Helped Power the Current Pandemic—Here’s Why Asymptomatic Carriers Are Fueling the COVID-19 Pandemic. Here’s Why You Don’t Have to Feel Sick to Spread the Disease Trials Are Underway For a Coronavirus Vaccine—But It Could Be A While Before You Can Get It Protecting Yourself From Coronavirus: Separating Truth From Misinformation What Defines a ‘Pandemic,’ And How Are They Stopped? Long After the Flames Go Out, Wildfire Smoke and Its Impact Lingers—Even if We Can’t See It The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: What It Is and How We’re Dealing With It Microplastics Are Everywhere, But Their Health Effects on Humans Are Still Unclear Is It Ever Too Late to Start Being Healthy? What Is A Calorie? Are You An Aspirational Recycler? Here’s 9 Things You Actually Can’t Recycle Why Desalinating Water is Hard and Why We Might Need to Anyway Intense Stress Might Hurt Our Cells’ Ability to Make Energy, Study Finds Thousands-of-Years-Old Baby Bottles Reveal How Ancient Infants Were Fed This Gut Bacteria Makes People Drunk Without Drinking—And Causes Liver Disease Study Finds Air Pollution Particles Can Get Inside the Placenta Audubon Magazine One Professor’s Quest to Build Community Through Birding Takes Flight These Student-Led Audubon College Clubs Are About Much More Than Birding ‘Black Birders Week’ Promotes Diversity and Takes on Racism in the Outdoors After Hurricane Dorian, a Survey Shows Hope and Concern For Bahamas’ Birds Hurricane Maria Almost Wiped Out These Hawks. Can We Save Them Before the Next Big Storm? North America Has Lost More Than 1 in 4 Birds in the Last 50 Years, New Study Says Seabird Experts Turn to Algorithms to Help Keep Fishing Boats in Line These Photos Reveal the Pollination Secrets of Florida’s Most Elusive Flower These Birds of Prey Have Eyes in the Backs of their Heads Lead Ammo, the Top Threat to Condors, Is Now Outlawed in California Sooty Tern Vomit Tells a Worrisome Story Did Crows Actually Make These Gifts for the Human Who Feeds Them? A Birder’s Workout Guide for Preventing Warbler Neck When David Sibley is your Art Teacher Rude: Kingfishers, Grebes, and Gulls Are Among the Internet’s Least Popular Birds Nuthatches Take Up Nannying When There’s a Shortage of Mates How birds Are Helping Scientists Reimagine a Feathered T. Rex The National Parks Have a Diversity Problem. This Couple Has been Working for 20 Years to Fix It. Hummingbirds Shake Their Tail Feathers to Generate High-Pitched Sounds The Golden-cheeked Warbler Is Still Endangered, Federal Judge Rules Puffins Amp Up Their Sex Appeal With Glowing Beaks Confirmed: Two Endangered Seabirds Have Been Rediscovered on Oahu Guardians of the Grebes In Alaska, Starving Seabirds and Empty Colonies Signal a Broken Ecosystem ¿Comó se llama? How Birds Get Their Spanish Names Court Orders EPA to Ban Pesticide Harmful to Children and Birds Within 60 Days Piping Plovers Nest in Toronto’s Shadow for First Time in 84 Years Here’s Why This Mama Merganser Has More Than 50 Ducklings The Origins of Hummingbirds Are Still a Major Mystery How One Audubon Chapter Is Partnering With Schools to Get Kids Outside Why Some Songbirds Kick Their Chicks Out Before They Can Fly Video: Watch (and Hear) Two Bitterns Getting Weird in a Rice Field What a Fateful Expedition to Alaska 100 Years Ago Can Teach Us Today Neat! Stick Insects Can Survive Being Eaten by Birds Once a Polluted Mess, Now a Healthy Riverside Park Popular Science The fastest animal for its body size probably isn’t what you’d expect How 3D technology is revolutionizing face transplants In 2018, Alaska’s Bering Sea was all out of whack The inventors of the polar bear treadmill are back with a new scientific contraption Megapixels: Two stars in a fight to the death We need to talk about extreme weather How to shovel snow safely This weekend’s comet will be the brightest of the year The medical community is finally realizing the uterus is more than a ‘baby house’ How to get rid of lice Megapixels: Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zoom in on its asteroid target Mosquito-trapping balloons could help us understand one of the world’s deadliest diseases These spiders make protein-packed milk for their young Science stories to save you from awkward Thanksgiving conversations The best way to deal with fall leaves A science-loving lady could head the next House Science Committee Do we need an opioid 1,000 times more powerful than morphine? The FDA thinks so. Megapixels: This strange creature isn’t a spider or a dog, but it sure looks like both Whoa, dinosaur eggs looked more dope than we thought These dogs know you have malaria before you do Megapixels: Spooky animal x-rays are exactly as cool as you’d imagine Did a giant bird really eat a neanderthal child? Megapixels: This geometric iceberg will soothe your soul Lavender might actually help you relax When and how did dinosaurs go extinct? The smaller the city, the bigger the flu epidemic Some hummingbirds hit notes so high, only dogs could hear them Why erectile dysfunction meds can have serious side effects What you should know about the new climate change report The toxins of our past still threaten the future of killer whales This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry ‘rewards a revolution based on evolution’ Megapixels: A moth drinks tears from a bird’s eye Weedkiller weakens bees by messing with their microbiomes How alcohol does—and doesn’t—affect your memory Donated organs rarely spread disease, thanks to these protocols We already know air pollution hurts your heart—and it might also hurt your brain Humans are natural runners—and this ancient gene mutation might have helped Specialty Pharmacy Continuum  IBD Patients Report Their Reactions To Biological Therapies Pharmacy Practice News Automated Dose Rounding Yields $3.6 Million in Savings Clinical Oncology News Reduced Washout Period Between Metronidazole and Bulsulfan Possible Fatherly Dad Bod is a Distraction. Men Get Healthier When They Become Dads. 5 Ways Boredom is Actually Great for Kids All Parents Offer Empty Promises and Hollow Threats. But Do They Do Harm? Vitamins for Kids Are Unnecessary, Expensive, and Potentially Harmful From Asthma to Eczema, 8 Health Problems That Peak in Summer ScienceLine It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… dust? Podcast: Dog cloning, explained Video: Saving slow lorises using DNA A guide to cervical cancer screenings at every age What pushes a major city to the brink of running out of water? Scuttleship Farm (Video) Alaskans take to the seas to fight climate change Size isn’t the only thing that matters during an earthquake Climate detectives use kauri tree clues to uncover secrets from Antarctica Space.com Astronaut Blood May Not Act Weird in Space After All