Low-meat and meat-free diets associated with lower overall cancer risk
Eating meat five times or less per week is associated with a lower overall cancer risk, according to two studies.
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Automation is fueling increasing mortality among U.S. adults, study finds
The automation of U.S. manufacturing — robots replacing people on factory floors — is fueling rising mortality rate among America’s working-age adults, according to a new study.
Brazilian babies born with Zika virus syndrome at greater risk of death in first three years of life than those born without
Babies born with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), due to infection with the Zika virus during pregnancy, are at more than 11x greater risk of dying during the first three years of life than those born without the syndrome, according to a new study.
Factors that shaped the massive Cauca River Canyon in the tropical Andes
A team of researchers recently embarked on a research expedition to the Tropical Andes of Colombia to study the massive Cauca River canyon. The team’s objective was to determine the age of formation of the Cauca River canyon and then compare that with …