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Climate change, population growth threats as malaria fight stalls

Credit: Pragyan Bezbaruah from Pexels The fight against malaria has stalled after two decades of progress, with climate change and population growth among factors threatening a resurgence of the potentially fatal disease, campaigners said Tuesday. Insufficient funding for increasingly costly prevention programs risked efforts against the mosquito-borne illness at a cost of hundreds of thousands …

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Rising demands, rising performance: Australian Football League Women’s players push limits in finals season

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) finals edge closer, players across the league are preparing to push their limits. Now, new research from the University of South Australia shows that AFLW players are pushing their physical limits more than ever before. In the first study to investigate the changing demands …

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How happy do we need to be to have lower chronic disease mortality risk?

Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Heart disease, cancer, asthma, and diabetes: All are chronic or non-communicable diseases (NCD), which accounted for about 75% of non-pandemic related deaths in 2021. They may result from genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors, or a combination thereof. But can other factors also influence disease risk? Now, a new Frontiers in …

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This Pool Salesman Finally Took His Own Advice—and Lost Nearly 150 Pounds

I’VE ALWAYS LOVED lifting weights. But doing cardio? Not so much. Running, biking, even walking—it never appealed to me. So while I’ve always had some muscle on me, it was never really defined (and, honestly, buried underneath a bit of a belly). That caught up with me, though, during the COVID lockdown in 2020 when …

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