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How the giant stinging tree of Australia can inflict months of agony – Nature.com
A new type of peptide produces pain so intense that sometimes even morphine cannot quell it.

When caring for Black babies, Black doctors outperform their white colleagues at making sure the infants survive.
Black infants in the United States are a strikingly vulnerable group: they are more than twice as likely as white infants to die in their first year. Researchers have started to recognize that racial bias might be an important reason behind this trend.
To put that to the test, Brad Greenwood at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and colleagues obtained data for 1.8 milli…
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