Mariana Romero

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
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South Korea wildfires become biggest on record as disaster chief points to ‘harsh reality’ of climate crisis Officials point to ultra-dry conditions as death toll reaches 27 and fires threaten Unesco heritage sites

"Experts have said the Uiseong fire showed extremely unusual spread in terms of its scale and speed, and that climate change was expected to make wildfires more frequent and deadly globally."

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#SouthKorea #Fire #ClimateChange

Protect research funding Federal funding for biomedical research is under threat.

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Letter: Big Oil footing climate bill is no longer a pipe dream From Ian Duff, Co-Head, Greenpeace International’s Stop Drilling Start Paying campaign, London N1, UK

“Without addressing the root cause — greenhouse gas emissions — any financial system will eventually buckle under the weight of rising climate disasters.”

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#StopDrillingStartPaying