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Eating Only Two Meals a Day Changes Your Metabolism, Here Is What Happens Over Time

Your Hunger Hormones Shift FirstWithin the first week of eating only two meals a day, ghrelin, the hormone that triggers hunger, begins to recalibrate its peak times. Instead of spiking at your old breakfast hour, it gradually aligns with your new first meal window. A 2019 study published in Obesity…

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Are screens behind poor vision epidemic?

Outdoor time is essential to the developing eye. We're getting less and less of it

Salon

Brickbat: That Takes Guts

The families of six people who died in Alabama prisons have sued the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, the University of Alabama System, and others, claiming their family members' bodies were returned to them after state-mandated autopsies with missing organs. The autopsies were performed at the University of…

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Alabama Inmates' Organs Removed Without Consent

Unauthorized organ removal from deceased inmates in Alabama prisons raises concerns about oversight and accountability. Legal battles and ethical questions...

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Filling Fauci's shoes: Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo is HIV expert and a lot of fun at parties

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will lead NIH's infectious diseases institute. Colleagues say she has a wide breadth of knowledge and a joyful demeanor.

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Alabama researcher will succeed Fauci in infectious disease post

A research scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been named to succeed Dr. Anthony Fauci as the nation’s top infectious disease expert

The Independent UK

Why does hair turn gray?

Hair grays because pigment-producing cells get stuck within the hair follicle, research suggests.

LiveScience

Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? One reason: Doctors don't take them seriously

Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race

The Independent UK

A months-long landfill fire in Alabama reveals waste regulation gaps

An unregulated landfill that accepts vegetative waste has burned underground for months. Neighbors were inundated with smoke and left wondering why the site wasn't regulated in the first place.

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