OK, I have a confession that is typically met with weird looks by coffee lovers — I hate hot coffee. Despite living in NYC, I could always be found with an iced coffee in hand during the coldest, snowiest of days. I just can’t bring myself to drink hot coffee. My iced coffee go to? A Vanilla Iced Latte from […]
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LONDON — There’s no stopping the perfumer Jo Malone — not lockdown nor retail closures nor a ban on travel to her newly opened stores in the Middle East and China. The London-based Malone has, over the past nine months of quarantine and restricted movement, built on her collaboration with Zara, opened a string of stores in the Middle East […]
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MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 — For colon cancer patients, Medicaid expansion is associated with earlier diagnosis, enhanced access to treatment, and improved surgical care, according to a study published online Nov. 23 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Richard S. Hoehn, M.D., from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and colleagues used a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences (DID) approach […]
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Revealed – the Harley Street doctors charging for cannabis treatments: They’re consultants with years of experience convinced cannabis can benefit the sick where other treatments have failed. So are they pioneering… or is this science gone to pot? The smart entrance to the Sapphire Medical Clinic looks much like any other private practice on Harley Street in London. But there […]
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 29, 2020– Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced a supply agreement with the UK government for an additional 2 million doses of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s vaccine candidate against COVID-19, to the United Kingdom beginning in March 2021. The UK government has now secured 7 million doses of […]
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CDC to vote on who will get coronavirus vaccine first Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ The makers of two promising coronavirus vaccine candidates have now applied for emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, meaning the first Americans could receive the long-awaited jab as early as December. But an important question […]
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The uniquely human ability to read is the cornerstone of modern civilization, yet very little is understood about the effortless ability to derive meaning from written words. Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have now identified a crucial region in the temporal lobe, know as the mid-fusiform cortex, which appears to act as the […]
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We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Coronavirus testing is a key part of the Government’s Covid response. Liverpool was the first England city to have regular coronavirus testing for all residents, whether they had symptoms or not. The scheme in Liverpool as part […]
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No regrets. Elizabeth Chambers clapped back at criticism after celebrating her daughter Harper’s 6th birthday amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Most memorable 6th birthday for the MOST MAGICAL girl!” the BIRD Bakery owner, 38, captioned a Sunday, November 29, Instagram video of Harper smiling with a horse at her side. “Thank you to all who celebrated and to Misty the pony, […]
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More than one-third of kids who have COVID-19 are asymptomatic, according to a University of Alberta study that suggests youngsters diagnosed with the disease may represent just a fraction of those infected. “The concern from a public health perspective is that there is probably a lot of COVID-19 circulating in the community that people don’t even realize,” said Finlay McAlister, […]
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