The island of Taiwan, which has had enviable success in containing COVID-19, imposed new restrictions in its capital city on Saturday as it battled its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. Authorities raised the alert level for Taipei, the capital, and the surrounding area of New Taipei city. The level 3 alert, which remains in effect for two weeks, requires […]
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Dreams about man’s best friend can be cute, cuddly, and make you not want to wake up — that being said, they hold serious symbolic meaning, too. As per Bark Post, dreams about animals are representative of your instincts and hidden nature, examining your “basic feelings, behaviors and reactions.” Specifically, dog dreams give insight into your thoughts about friendship, loyalty, drug […]
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Barbara Weber may be the most memorable mother in Bachelor Nation — and Peter Weber is all for it! The season 24 Bachelor and his mother tackled texting exes, unsolicited advice and more during Parenting Dos and Don’ts. Peter Weber: A Day in My Life “I definitely trust my mom’s judgment,” the 29-year-old reality TV personality exclusively told Us Weekly […]
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Most won’t dare say it, but EVGENY LEBEDEV will: The Covid pandemic has revealed just how unhealthy Britons are Every year, around 55 million people die worldwide. Some deaths are due to newsworthy events and major pandemics. But many more, three-fifths of them, are attributed to mundane diseases of chronic inflammation. Imagine if the news led with the number of […]
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There was no significant difference in cardiovascular events or major bleeding between patients with established coronary heart disease (CHD) assigned to a daily aspirin dose of 81 mg and those receiving a dose of 325 mg in the 15,000-patient ADAPTABLE trial. Although substantial dose switching occurred in the trial, particularly from the higher to the lower dose, lead investigator W. […]
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On Friday May 7, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new public recommendations to account for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) airborne transmission. The CDC now accounts both transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and infection causing COVID-19 disease can result from inhaled fine respiratory bioaerosol particles. The new guidelines are completely aligned with scientific perspectives […]
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Dozens of commonly used drugs, including antibiotics, antinausea and anticancer medications, have a potential side effect of lengthening the electrical event that triggers contraction, creating an irregular heartbeat, or cardiac arrhythmia called acquired Long QT syndrome. While safe in their current dosages, some of these drugs may have a more therapeutic benefit at higher doses, but are limited by the […]
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In a large-animal study, researchers have shown that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cell line, or hiPSCs, that overexpress cyclin D2. This research, published in the journal Circulation, used a pig model of heart attacks, which more closely resembles the human heart in size and physiology, and thus […]
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New CDC guidance says fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks indoors, but many businesses like Starbucks and some state and local governments have not relaxed their own mask rules yet. “The whole country is not a homogeneous space,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, said Thursday in explaining that the CDC doesn’t trump state and local restrictions. “So, we […]
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CDC panel endorses Pfizer vaccine for ages 12-15 NYU Langone COVID co-investigator Dr. Purvi Parikh weighs in on ‘Your World’ A new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday is the latest to show real-world evidence of the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines that were developed with mRNA technology. The study, which is based […]
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