“Am I wrong to show off my strength gains online?”

We share so much of our lives on social media, but why are so many of us hesitant about broadcasting our fitness achievements? One writer spoke to gym-going women facing the modern dilemma: to post or not to post? From job promotions, to engagements, to the new sustainable activewear set we’ve added to our ever-growing gym wardrobe, most of us love […]

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COVIDcast API: An open repository of real-time COVID-19 indicators

Public health data is essential for framing policies and monitoring the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Some real-time indicators include cases, deaths and hospitalizations following infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen. However, these need to be collated on a consistent and reliable basis in order to provide a sound basis for research. […]

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Australian states squabble as NSW seeks COVID vaccine priority

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s largest state of New South Wales on Friday urged the federal government to divert vaccine doses to Sydney, the epicentre of a flaring COVID-19 outbreak, raising objections from other states desperate for protection from the virus.FILE PHOTO: People wait outside a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centre at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia, July 14, 2021. […]

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Questionnaire responses about dermatology history inconsistent

(HealthDay)—Asking people about a history of psoriasis may be useful for assessing psoriasis prevalence, but a similar questionnaire assessing atopic dermatitis does not appear to be as reliable of a method, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Dermatology. Lea K. Nymand, from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and colleagues examined the test-retest accuracy of questionnaires […]

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After Falling Eight Stories, Ocho Lands A New Home

Months before they adopted their first cat, Karen L. and her husband, Patrick, were brainstorming cat names.  “Our pandemic exercise was, ‘What would we name a cat?’” says Karen.  The pandemic proved to be an opportune time to adopt. Karen, a librarian, has been working remotely from the couple’s Astoria home, and Patrick, a barber, was briefly unemployed. They applied […]

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Thai study looks at CoronaVac vaccine vs. natural immunity to SARS-COV-2 variants

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus that was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. SARS-CoV-2, which has a very high rate of transmission, is the causal agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Several vaccines have been developed against SARS-CoV-2, several of which have received emergency use authorization (EUA) from global regulatory bodies. […]

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Just how dangerous is eating salt every day?

The Government’s new food strategy is calling for a £3bn sugar and salt tax to “improve our diets”. But just how dangerous is salt and what evidence is there to suggest that we should be dramatically cutting down on the white stuff? If there’s one flavour that many of us can’t live without, it’s salt. Whether it’s sprinkling salt on […]

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BioNTech produces 10 times more antibodies than Chinas Sinovac: study

People who received BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine had ten times the amount of antibodies than those given China’s Sinovac, a Hong Kong study has shown, adding to growing data on different jabs’ effectiveness. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) research, based on a study of 1,442 healthcare workers, was published in Lancet Microbe on Thursday. Researchers said antibodies are not the […]

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