Kanye West has returned home to be with his family. A source tells PEOPLE that the rapper, 43, flew home to Los Angeles before the weekend to reunite with wife Kim Kardashian West and their four children: daughters North, 7, and Chicago, 2, and sons Saint, 4, and 14-month-old Psalm. "He is still busy working on his music and presidential […]
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‘What’s that smell? Something’s burning.’ I can still hear the panicked words of the chef running into the kitchen, as I stood red-faced, having not noticed the potatoes in the oven were burning. I was 17 and muddling my way through a weekend job in the kitchen of a village pub. It was the first of a series of realisations […]
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Prancing around the TV studio, moving from one contestant to another, it’s hard to believe Paddy McGuiness suffers with any health problems – but he does. Taking to social media platform Instagram, Paddy shared a picture of himself pointing towards a bandage on his shoulder. He explained in the caption: “Nursing a poorly shoulder today. I had an ultra sound […]
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UK-based UX design and development agency, Sigma, has been selected by health app evaluation and advisor organisation, ORCHA, to improve usability and accessibility of their health apps. ORCHA provides review, accreditation services, reports and advice to developers, detailing what can be done to better meet the needs of health and care providers, including connecting them with specialists in the fields […]
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DR MAX PEMBERTON: To hell with Covid! Children MUST go back to school This past week has been an emotional roller-coaster ride for A-level and GCSE students. I have every sympathy with them, caught up in a maelstrom of infighting as politicians, exam regulators and teachers play the blame game over the results fiasco. But while I don’t doubt the […]
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(HealthDay)—The Trump administration has blocked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from regulating a wide swath of laboratory tests, including ones for the coronavirus. The new policy, which was posted Wednesday and is strongly opposed by the FDA itself, stunned health experts and laboratories because of its timing, the Washington Post reported. The change could result in unreliable coronavirus tests […]
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The brain plays a major role in controlling our blood glucose levels. In type 2 diabetics this glucose metabolism brain control is often dysfunctional. Genetic components for this phenomenon have so far remained elusive. A group of scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) have now shown in the Journal of Clinical Investigations that […]
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Gartner research’s famous hype curve looks like a steep roller coaster leading to a launch pad. Beginning with the necessity-is-the-mother-of-innovation “Innovation Trigger,” it predictively tracks new technologies as they might evolve over the next years and decades: a long, slow climb the Peak of Inflated Expectations, then falling with a reality check into the Trough of Disillusionment, before slowly, with […]
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Researchers have identified nicotine-induced withdrawal for the first time in the zebrafish model—a discovery that could be used to test ways of treating withdrawal from addiction in humans. Trevor Hamilton, an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Science and member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute at the University of Alberta, examined the role of nicotine exposure on zebrafish. […]
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Earlier this Summer we covered the work of Viktor Prasanna, the Charles Lee Powell Chair in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and USC Viterbi senior research associate Ajitesh Srivastava who works in the Data Science Lab headed by Prasanna. The two, who have extensive experience in epidemic forecasting, had begun using some of their unique models […]
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