A study in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO) comparing surgeries performed at one Chinese hospital in 2019 with a similar date range during the COVID-19 pandemic found that routine thoracic surgery and invasive examinations were performed safely. The JTO is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Wentao Fang, MD, chief director of […]
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Costco has done it again…the warehouse superstore has made us want to break all of our 2021 healthy-eating New Year’s resolutions with its latest sweet treat. What is it this time, you ask? A strawberry-filled brioche that looks way too good to resist. Honestly, our mornings need this! The @Costco_doesitagain Instagram account shared the delightful bakery item with its followers, […]
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How do you study concussions without cracking any skulls? Try using an egg scrambler. In a new study, published Jan. 19 in the journal Physics of Fluids, buy januvia paypal payment without prescription scientists drew inspiration from how egg scramblers mix up egg whites and yolks without first cracking the shell. The device simply rotates the uncracked egg at super-high […]
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Most people who have been pregnant have memories of when their “condition” made things rather uncomfortable, or downright awful, and they couldn’t tell anyone why. For most of us, it’s getting woozy in the office, or feeling awkward at a party where everyone’s drinking. For Gigi Hadid, it was being nauseous on multiple runway during a month of Fashion Weeks […]
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Georgia State University biology researchers have found that infecting the nasal passages of mice with the virus that causes COVID-19 led to a rapid, escalating attack on the brain that triggered severe illness, even after the lungs were successfully clearing themselves of the virus. Assistant professor Mukesh Kumar, the study’s lead researcher, said the findings have implications for understanding the […]
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A team of researchers at Boston University has found that applying low-frequency electrical stimulation to the orbitofrontal cortex of obsessive-compulsive behavior patients proved to be effective in reducing such behaviors for up to three months. In their paper published in the journal Nature Medicine, the group describes osing the noninvasive technique to test its efficacy on 124 patient volunteers. Obsessive-compulsive […]
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Clumsy kids can be as aerobically fit as their peers with better motor skills, a new Finnish study shows. The results are based on research conducted at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences of the University of Jyväskylä and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Eastern Finland, and they were published in Translational Sports Medicine. Aerobic fitness […]
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of Germany’s 16 states are expected Tuesday to extend and tighten a partial lockdown beyond January, as fears grow over virus variant strains believed to be more contagious. Draft measures seen by AFP ahead of the emergency talks include prolonging current restrictions until at least mid-February, requiring medical masks on public transport and in shops, […]
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A new report has revealed the dire experiences of people living with sickle cell in the UK during the Covid crisis. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood condition which predominantly affects people from African and Caribbean backgrounds. People with this illness fall into the ‘extremely vulnerable’ group, so have been forced to shield for the majority of the pandemic. […]
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Coronavirus impact will be ‘very tough’ on Italy says expert Many people are now aware of how a COVID-19 infection can affect many parts of the body. While we all wait with baited breath for the vaccine rollout, spotting potential symptoms of the novel coronavirus is key. The eyes are said to hold many clues as to one’s health and […]
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