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What is the human thermal barrier? As Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor, describes in his new book, “Will the Fungi Win?” it is our normal body temperature, and it has been holding the majority of fungal infections in humans at …
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What’s your favorite fungus? You might say mushrooms and stop there, since for most of us a broad knowledge of fungi is lacking. Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor and author of a new book, “What if the Fungi Win?” is …
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Women in the US experience a rate of maternal mortality twice as high and sometimes three times as high as that of other high income countries. How do we account for this dismal statistic and what can we do about …
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In 2023, more than 50,000 Americans died by suicide, continuing a grim trend upward that has been underway for years. Mandy Cohen, CDC director, said at a recent Johns Hopkins talk that the agency is analyzing all the data and …
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