How research on other animals could help women's health, DART mission post-mortem, bird flu vaxxes

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March 02, 2023

Animals Here's What Scientists Are Learning about Women's Health from Other Female Animals Evolved adaptations of female animals could help solve women's health challenges By Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Planetary Science NASA's Asteroid-Bashing DART Mission Was Wildly Successful New studies have revealed the spacecraft's final moments and the remarkable aftermath of its impact By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Animals How Octopus Arms Bypass the Brain A secret pattern links far-flung octopus limbs By Nora Bradford

Epidemiology Vaccine Makers Are Preparing for Bird Flu Although most experts say bird flu is not an immediate threat to humans, efforts are underway to produce vaccines for H5N1 or another potential pandemic virus By Hannah Docter-Loeb

Climate Change Algal Blooms Have Boomed Worldwide Climate change is likely at least partially to blame for an uptick in the size and frequency of algal blooms in parts of the world's oceans By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Conservation Pablo Escobar's 'Cocaine Hippos' Spark Conservation Fight Researchers worry the Colombian environmental ministry will side with animal-rights activists rather than curb the spread of invasive hippos once kept by drug-cartel leader Pablo Escobar By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega,Nature magazine

Aerospace What Can We Do to Make Sure the FAA and Southwest Airlines Fiascos Never Happen Again? Congress and the airline industry must reassess how they approach and fund air transportation modernization By Laurie Garrow

Public Health The Pandemic's Mental Toll, and Does Telehealth Work? Your Health Quickly, Episode 1 Hosts Josh Fischman and Tanya Lewis explore the pandemic's mental health toll on teens and young adults. They also delve into the effectiveness of telehealth, which has been booming since the start of the pandemic. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose | 10:38

FROM THE ARCHIVE Doctors Must Dig into Gender Difference to Improve Women's Health Care Researchers and doctors must dig deeper into gender differences before they can provide women with better treatments By Marcia L. Stefanick | September 2017

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Many of the greatest threats to women's health may have already been neutralized in other species. The fixes are out there, in the bodies of the animals with whom we share our planet. As ingenious as we humans may be, the natural world is even smarter." Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, cardiologist and evolutionary biologist.

WHAT WE'RE READING A Pioneering Gender-Affirming Health Institute Opened in 1919 in Berlin The Institute for Sexual Research, founded in 1919, pioneered modern gender-affirming health care. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with medical historian Brandy Schillace on this piece of queer history. By Ailsa Chang | NPR | Mar. 1, 2023

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