Today, you’ll learn about a possible new treatment for chronic pain, a major obstacle to the world’s tree-planting plans, and some bad news for nose pickers.

Chronic Pain Treatment

“Identification and targeting of a unique Nav1.7 domain driving chronic pain.” by Kimberly Gomez, et al. 2023.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217800120
“Nav1.7 withholds its pain potential.” by Katie Kingwell. 2023.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-019-00065-0
“Chronic Pain Among Adults - United States, 2019 - 2021.” CDC. 2023.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7215a1.htm
“Prevalence of chronic pain among adults in the United States.” by R Jason Yong & Neil Bhattacharyya. 2022.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33990113/

Tree Planting

“Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by massive undersupply of seedlings.” by Joshua Brown. 2023.
“A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change.” by Peter W. Clark, et al. 2023.
“Trees Help Fight Climate Change.” Arbor Day Foundation. N.d.
“Benefits of Planting Trees.” Tree Advisory Board. N.D.

Nose Pickers

“Why Not to Pick Your Nose // Association between nose picking and SARS-Cov-2 incident, a cohort study in hospital healthcare workers.” by A.H. Ayesha Lavell, et al. 2023.
“Nose picking linked to higher risk of covid, study shows.” by Lindsey Bever. 2023.
“The Anatomy and Function of the Nasal Cavity.” by Kristin Hayes, RN. 2023.

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Chronic Pain Treatment, Tree Planting, Nose Pickers

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