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“Jesinta and Lance are thrilled to announce the arrival of their beautiful baby daughter, Tallulah Franklin,” a spokeswoman told The Daily Telegraph. “They are both absolutely besotted with her.” In a previous interview following the news of her pregnancy, the model admitted that the couple had spent “years and years” trying to conceive. View this post on Instagram Last night with […]
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From 2008 to 2017, there was an increase in the national age-adjusted rate of unintentional fall-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) deaths among U.S. adults, according to research published in the March 6 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Alexis B. Peterson, Ph.D., and Scott R. Kegler, Ph.D., from the CDC in […]
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Famed children's author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel — who wrote under the pen name "Dr. Seuss" — was born on March 2, 1904. The date has been designated "Dr. Seuss Day" in American schools. Throughout his life, Dr. Seuss wrote uplifting books, despite facing hardships, including a prolonged illness and his first wife's suicide. During such turbulent times, fans […]
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Qatar has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, state media reported Saturday, after a 36-year-old Qatari woman who was evacuated to Doha from Iran tested positive. Qatar on Thursday repatriated a number of its citizens from Iran—which is battling the worst outbreak outside China—and confined them to a 14-day period of quarantine, the government said. The health ministry said the […]
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Doctors who use drugs that target antibiotic-resistant bacteria as a first-line defense against pneumonia should probably reconsider this approach, according to a new study of more than 88,000 veterans hospitalized with the disease. The study, conducted by University of Utah Health and VA Salt Lake City Health Care System researchers, found that pneumonia patients given these medications in the first […]
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Leah Jones first became fixated on the number four on her 16th birthday, as she tapped her head four times for luck. But over the years, her rituals around the number became unmanageable and completely controlled her life. The senior account manager Leah Jones, 25, of Kingston, south west London, was eventually diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a mental […]
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When social media goes from a fun distraction to a source of stress, something has to change. Loads of us are concerned about just how much time we’re spending online, from sitting at a computer all day to scrolling our timeline at night. But few of us can ditch tech entirely. So how do we maintain a balance? The key […]
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The tobacco control policies of Japan, the world’s ninth largest cigarette market and host of the 2020 Olympics, are not working, according to new studies from researchers at the University of Waterloo. The two studies were part of the Waterloo-based International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC) and involved a survey of 3,800 smokers in Japan. Waterloo researchers collaborated with […]
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Bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, most commonly develops from pre-cancerous growths called polyps. The deadly disease is best identified early to increase chances of survival. What might your faeces be telling you? The bowel is part of the digestive system – the large bowel absorbs water from undigested waste and moves it along towards the colon. Waste (poo) […]
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Researchers worldwide are racing to develop potential vaccines and drugs to fight the new coronavirus, called SARS-Cov-2. Now, a group of researchers has figured out the molecular structure of a key protein that the coronavirus uses to invade human cells, potentially opening the door to the development of a vaccine, according to new findings. Previous research revealed that coronaviruses invade […]
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