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Whether it be arguments about the merits of pumpkin spice or who makes the best chicken sandwich, food is an ever-popular subject on social media. Michigan Medicine researchers turned to Twitter to see what this online culinary discussion reveals about the people behind the posts, and whether the platform could serve as a real-time tool for assessing information valuable to public health researchers.

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Keywords: Twitter, Food, Obesity, Social Media, Demograhics, Social determinants of health

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe—a blast of gamma-rays a trillion times more powerful than visible light. That’s because in a few seconds the gamma-ray burst (GRB) emitted more energy than the Sun will provide over its entire 10-billion year life.

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Keywords: Astrophysics, gamma-ray burst, NASA

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) commends the New Hampshire Board of Medicine’s unanimous vote to prohibit the use of the term “anesthesiologist” unless licensed by the board of medicine.

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Keywords: Anesthesiologist, nurse anesthestist

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Keywords: Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Indigenous Americans, Native Americans, Harvesting, Pilgrims and Indians , indigenous people, Thanksgiving history

With the release of the film Harriet, Rutgers scholar Erica Armstrong Dunbar said it’s a good time to shed light on Tubman’s life not only as the famed Underground Railroad conductor, but as a sister, a daughter, a wife, a mother and a woman.

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Keywords: Harriet Tubman, runaway slaves, Civil War Era, Civil War, Underground Railroad, She came to slay, erica armstrong dunbar, American American History, slave history, Enslavement, Rutgers University, philadelphia history, Harriet

A "fuzzy logic" alarm system may help nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) predict impending catheter infusion failure – and prevent complications in critically ill newborns, reports a study in the October issue of Advances in Neonatal Care, official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

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Keywords: Intensive Care, Medical Education, neonatal , pleural effusion , simulation training, Thoracostomy

Juan Cueto did not feel sick, but he was losing weight rapidly and was devastated with the knowledge that he had two life threatening diseases, cancer and a liver disease.

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Keywords: Cancer, liver transplant, Liver Disease, Surgery

Researchers have discovered that a peptide links together migraine pain and pain induced by opioid overuse.

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Keywords: pain, Migraine, Opioids, opioid abuse

The metallic thin films with 3-D interlocking nanostructures could be used in catalysis, energy storage, and biomedical sensing.

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Keywords: Thin films , Metals, Metallic, Materials Science, Alloys, dealloying, Nanostructures, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, National Synchrotron Light Source II , material characterization, Electron Microscopy, Nanofabrication, National Institute Of Standards And Technology, functional nanomaterials, Nanoporous, x-ray fluorescence, x-ray absorption