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Briefing: Major changes to cardiovascular guidelines suggest taking statins as young as 30

Strategic angle: Cardiology groups say adults as young as 30 should assess cholesterol risk and consider treatment to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

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Briefing: How an unlikely all-female clonal fish species copied and pasted itself free from extinction

Strategic angle: The tiny Amazon molly has survived for over 100,000 years against evolutionary odds.

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Briefing: NASA Armstrong to Host Partnership Days April 15-16

Strategic angle: Innovative companies and organizations invited to collaborate at NASA's event.

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Briefing: Inside the light: How invisible electric fields drive device luminescence

Strategic angle: Fleeting electron-hole pairs are giving scientists a new window into optimizing light-emitting devices (LEDs).

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Briefing: USBR Crack the Case Challenge

Strategic angle: NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation promotes crowdsourcing for federal challenges.

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Briefing: The fish were biting in ancient Alabama: Tooth found embedded in Cretaceous apex predator's neck

Strategic angle: A unique new fossil demonstrates rare evidence of direct conflict between apex predators in the Cretaceous oceans of North America.

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Briefing: Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies

Strategic angle: Climate change, war and mismanagement are putting Iran’s water supply under major strain, experts warn.

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Briefing: Agenda diaria de la misión a la Luna de Artemis II de la NASA

Strategic angle: Unos ocho minutos después del despegue de Artemis II, la nave espacial Orion y su tripulación están listos para su misión lunar.

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Briefing: Fish stocks are on the line: Climate change impacts global fishing yields

Strategic angle: Climate change is rapidly challenging the notion that there are plenty more fish in the sea, with global fish stocks under threat.

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Briefing: Most Medicare Beneficiaries Affected by Plan Terminations in 2025 Have Robust Medicare Advantage Options in 2026

Strategic angle: Virtually all (98.9%) of the 2.6 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan that terminated coverage at the end of 2025 have at least one MA-PD available in 2026.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Briefing: Proposing simple measures to prevent industry dumping plastic pellets into the sea

Strategic angle: The presence of small plastic pellets on the beaches of Donostia and Orio highlights a concerning source of pollution from industrial microplastics.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Briefing: Geneticists challenge common model of how cells retain their identity

Strategic angle: A new study from Umeå University suggests that the widely accepted model of cellular identity may be flawed.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Epstein’s pal attempts a biotech comeback, and Prasad exits the FDA

On this week's The Readout LOUD podcast: A friend of Jeffrey Epstein attempts a biotech comeback, and (another) Prasad FDA exit.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Briefing: Regenerative grazing study reveals trade-offs for sheep farmers

Strategic angle: A new study highlights the balance between environmental benefits and economic challenges in regenerative agriculture for sheep farming.

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Briefing: Trump's Influence on Drug Prices: A Closer Look

Strategic angle: Exploring the ongoing battle over drug pricing and the contrasting approaches of Trump and Biden.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Recent Trends in Medicaid Outpatient Prescription Drugs and Spending

This issue brief describes recent trends in the number of Medicaid outpatient prescriptions and the spending on those drugs and examines the implications of recent federal actions on future trends.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Briefing: Who are the key figures in the sewage crisis, and where are they now?

Strategic angle: With anger stoked by Channel 4’s drama Dirty Business, we look at what has happened to some of the main players.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Briefing: Trump policies set to increase rates of lung disease and death, study finds

Strategic angle: Experts warn of ‘attack on Americans’ lungs’ from cuts to health programs and environmental rollbacks.

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Briefing: Make next year’s flu shots, says FDA committee

Strategic angle: Vaccine skepticism, FDA-authorized vape flavors, and more health news from Morning Rounds

Editorial Staff Mar 13

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Poll: Public Worries About Prescription Drug Costs Reach New High

Most Across Political Parties Want Government to Do More to Regulate Prices

Editorial Staff Mar 13