Permanent Daylight Saving Time Would Cut Collisions With Deer And Save Lives, Study Finds
Researchers estimate the annual clock change in November kills 33 people and 36,550 deer in car crashes and causes nearly $1.2 billion in damages.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - November 2, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Hart, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Science /science Healthcare /healthcare Lifestyle /lifestyle Cars & Bikes /cars-bikes Policy /policy Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news

Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit ’s complex ancestry
People like to know where their food comes from, but even experts are throwing up their hands when it comes to the origins of the modern banana. An extensive genetic analysis of more than 100 varieties of wild and cultivated bananas unpeels the fruit’s tangled history of domestication and reveals the existence of three previously unknown—and possibly still living—ancestors. Banana experts want to track down those mysterious forebears to see whether their genes might help keep modern banana crops healthy. “Banana domestication is much more complicated than I had realized previously,” says Loren Rieseberg, an ...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 14, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

Why Native Americans Are Dying Sooner
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that American life expectancy had taken a nosedive during the pandemic, with the biggest drop occurring among non-Hispanic American Indians and Alaska Natives. It was reassuring to see coverage of this terrible trend; but largely absent was the context and history underlying these disparities. The reasons why indigenous people were hit hardest by COVID-19 go beyond the fact that they also have very high rates of underlying comorbidities—like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Instead the roots of health disparities among indigeno...
Source: TIME: Health - October 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Céline R. Gounder Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news

High Levels of ‘ Forever Chemicals ’ in Deer Prompts ‘ Do Not Eat ’ Warnings for Hunters
(PORTLAND, Maine) — Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as deer—and that’s prompting health advisories in some places where hunting and fishing are ways of life and key pieces of the economy. Authorities have detected the high levels of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in deer in several states, including Michigan and Maine, where legions of hunters seek to bag a buck every fall. Sometimes called “forever chemicals” for their persistence in the environment, PFAS are industrial compounds used in numerous produ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Patrick Whittle/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change Economy healthscienceclimate Nature & Science wire Source Type: news

Falls from tree stands have become the leading cause of deer hunting accidents in Pennsylvania - Young KA, Walker CW, Baro S, Wang S, Smith JL.
This study aimed to describe, using a statewide trauma registry, the incidence, trends, and injuries for tree stand falls while deer hunting in Pennsylvania. METHODS: Falls from tree stands were abstracted from the Pennsylvania Trauma S...
Source: SafetyLit - October 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Deer Are Spreading Lyme Ticks in Suburban Backyards
A new study suggests the overpopulation of white-tailed deer across the Northeastern U.S. could help spread Lyme disease, especially in suburban areas.
Source: WebMD Health - September 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Yaks breathe easy thanks to newly discovered lung cells
Breathing air high up on the Tibetan Plateau gives most people headaches, but massive yaks have no trouble sprinting through the grassy plains. In a new study, researchers describe a newly discovered type of cell that may help these oxlike animals move so agilely in cold, low-oxygen conditions. Researchers have long known that yaks—as well as some people and dogs —possess genetic adaptations that help them thrive at high elevations. But yaks, it turns out, also have special cells in their lungs that may give them extra oomph at high altitudes, a Chinese team reports today in Nature Communications ...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 6, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

2 Phoenix police officers injured, 2 people dead after shooting Sunday night
Two officers have been taken to the hospital after an officer-involved shooting in north Phoenix near Deer Valley Road. #deervalleyroad
Source: Reuters: Health - August 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Why Animals Are Less Vulnerable Than Humans to BA.5 and Omicron
For more than two years, COVID-19 has had its way with humanity. But humans are not the only victims of the virus. The disease, which leading theories still indicate spilled over from animals to humans in a Wuhan, China seafood wholesale market, has now infected pets and animals from farms, laboratories, and zoos. It has also found its way into the wild, infecting many non-domesticated species. COVID-19 now appears to be widespread throughout the animal kingdom, according to a recent study in the journal Scientific Data that provides the first global case count of COVID-19 cases in animals. But there’s good news: ot...
Source: TIME: Health - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Vivent Health plans $9M project to expand clinic space for HIV patients
Vivent Health, formerly the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, will relocate its downtown Milwaukee clinic to a building near the Deer District in a $9 million project that president and CEO Mike Gifford said still needs $2 million in philanthropic contributions.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - July 19, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Rich Kirchen Source Type: news

Africa: Human Catches Covid From a Cat - Here's Why This New Evidence Is Not Cause for Panic
[The Conversation Africa] Since the pandemic began, there have been several documented cases of humans transmitting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to their pets. But the reverse has been rarer - until recently, hamsters, mink and white-tailed deer were the only animals reported to have spread SARS-CoV-2 to people.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 13, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Exploratory analysis of physical and emotional impacts and use of healthcare services following moose and deer vehicle collisions in north-central British Columbia - Conway S, Rea RV, Hesse G, MacPhail C, Gonna A, Spooner D.
Introduction North-central British Columbia is home to two species of deer and three subspecies of moose. In north-central British Columbia, between 2006 and 2010, over 8900 deer and 3100 moose vehicle collisions were reported to the Insurance Corporation...
Source: SafetyLit - July 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Mayo Clinic Minute: What to do if you are exposed to Lyme disease
Scientists are studying why tick-borne infections, including Lyme disease, are on the rise and why ticks are expanding into new geographic areas. Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne infection, is caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia mayonii. It's transmitted by the bite of an infected blacklegged tick, previously known as a deer tick. The Northeast and Upper Midwest are hot spots for Lyme disease, though there are other parts of the U.S. and the world…
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - July 5, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Great auks and seal-headed men: a window into ice age Provence
The Cosquer cave near Marseille astonished the diver who discovered it with its ancient depictions of sea and land animals. Now it has been painstakingly recreated in the French port for all to enjoyIt was in 1985 that the diver Henri Cosquer discovered, along the coast from Marseille, what has been called an “underwater Lascaux” after the famous cave network in the Dordogne. After several failed attempts, he managed to follow a narrow tunnel, 120ft below the surface of the sea, for almost 400ft and emerged in a stunning decorated chamber. Subsequent visits revealed many images of the horses, ibexes and deer common in ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 2, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Matthew Reisz Tags: Archaeology France Science Europe World news Source Type: news

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