Francisco Lopera, the ‘Country Doctor’ Who Upended Our Understanding of Dementia NYT | Top Stories By: Jennie Erin Smith 11 September 2024 at 22:07 Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease. © Federico Rios Escobar for The New York TimesFrancisco Lopera, clinical neurologist and neuroscience group coordinator at the University of Antioquia, Colombia, in 2019.
Missouri Bird Flu Case Raises Prospect of Human Transmission NYT | Top Stories By: Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes 14 September 2024 at 07:27 A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not tested, and the cause of the illness is unknown. © Jackie Katz Cynthia Goldsmith/C.D.C., via Associated PressAn electron microscope image of an avian influenza H5N1 virion.
Time to Say Goodbye to the B.M.I.? NYT | China By: Roni Caryn Rabin 6 September 2024 at 22:59 The body mass index has long been criticized as a flawed indicator of health. A replacement has been gaining support: the body roundness index.
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