For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face. Carmen Blandin Tarleton, whose face was disfigured in an attack by her ex-husband, became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo the procedure after her first transplant began to fail six years after the operation. The transplant from an anonymous donor […]
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A large-scale analysis of the clinical characteristics of Alport syndrome in Japanese patients has revealed that the effectiveness of existing treatment with ACE inhibitors and/or angiotensin receptor blockers (RAS inhibitors) varies depending on the type of mutation in the syndrome’s causal gene (COL4A5). RAS inhibitors are widely administered to patients with chronic kidney diseases as they are known to preserve […]
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Biting into a square of her favourite chocolate, Barbara Reed felt a tingle at the back of the tongue. She noticed a tiny mouth ulcer – something she’d never really had before. Born in Switzerland but now living in Norfolk, Barbara loved the creamy sweet treat so didn’t want to miss out and she went to a pharmacist for some […]
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Stretch marks are also known as Striae and are a form of scarring on the skin. Overtime, these marks may diminish, but will never disappear completely. Sometimes stretchmarks could signal a medical condition including either a pelvic disorder or breast cancer. Pelvic disorders Women who have stretch marks on their body may face triple the risk of having a pelvic […]
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A hospital nurse for 33 years, Nanette Miller would call her husband Frank at the end of each shift to let him know she was coming home. On Dec. 7, 2018, the phone call came with a somber declaration: “I can’t do this anymore.” Miller had to help on another hospital floor that day. She didn’t know how to get […]
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Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Ludmila Belayev, MD, LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Neurosurgery, has unlocked a key fundamental mechanism in the communication between brain cells when confronted with stroke. They report that DHA not […]
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Experts have cast doubt on the notion that people adapted to breathing the rarefied air at high altitudes are less susceptible to severe COVID-19 as a result. A recent analysis found that, compared with lowland areas, there is a lower incidence of severe COVID-19 in Tibet and parts of Bolivia and Ecuador that are more than 2,500 meters above sea […]
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For 19-year-old Indah (not her real name), the COVID-19 pandemic has led to her worst nightmare. Since her brother and his wife went back to their parents’ house after he lost his job due to the pandemic, she has been the target of her brother’s rage. “My brother hit me, pulled my hair, and kicked me several times. My lower […]
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Excessive visceral fat can show up in an “apple” body shape. This active form of body fat can produce toxic hormones that mess with your health. Here’s how to get rid of it. HealthDirect advises people to measure their waist in order to recognise whether or not your health is at risk. Harvard Health notes that the waist measurement, in […]
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In the early stages of COVID-19, much of the focus of demographers – who study populations—has understandably been on mortality and morbidity. But as the pandemic rolls on, attention is also now turning to the impact of COVID-19 on population size, structure and distribution. Our new modelling shows that under a worst-case scenario, Australia will be 1.4 million people—or 4% […]
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