China on Monday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in three months, part of a worrying swell of second and third-wave infections that are hitting Asia and Europe. Australia has been rocked by its deadliest surge since the start of the pandemic, Hong Kong is experiencing record daily numbers and Spain’s caseload has tripled in the last fortnight. Meanwhile, […]
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How good or bad is your sense of smell? Your olfactory system could help determine who is at risk of dementia. Here’s what the scientists say. Researchers from UC San Francisco tracked 1,800 participants in their 70s for a decade. Their original aim was to uncover if their sensory functioning was directly linked to the development of dementia. At the […]
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Special compound in the honey-sting of loose bees discovered Honey has been used for centuries for medical purposes, wherein the different types of honey have a very different healing effect is attributed to. Considered to be very healthy, especially the honey-sting of unemployed bees apply in addition to Manuka honey. Australian Researchers have discovered in the honey-sting of loose bees […]
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DR ELLIE CANNON: How long will it be before I’m free from the pain of shingles? I had shingles a few months ago and was given tablets. The blisters have gone but I still have pain across the side of my ribs where they were. Will it go away? Something I noticed, during lockdown was a larger-than-usual number of my […]
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Researchers have found that the death rate from COVID-19 in prisons is three times higher than average. Crowding, poor sanitary conditions, and high rates of chronic illness among incarcerated people make it difficult to control the spread of infectious diseases in jails and prisons. Security measures designed to keep people in jails and prisons don’t effectively keep viruses or other […]
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Coronavirus makes changes in the body cells that cause cells not to recognise it, suggest researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio). The researchers reported how the coronavirus achieves this in the journal Nature Communications. The scientists resolved the structure of an enzyme called nsp16, which the virus produces and then […]
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Raman Malhotra, MD, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The academy, a professional society dedicated to sleep medicine, has a combined membership of over 10,000 accredited member sleep centers and individual members. He will serve as president-elect this year and take […]
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Transmission over long distances in air-conditioned work areas According to the Coronavirus mass infections in some meat processing plants is the question of why the industry is so greatly affected was. First of all, the living situation of the employees was suspected, but a recent study shows that, apparently, the air conditioning in the working areas, the decisive factor. Much […]
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It’s no secret that we believe women should talk about sex — with their partners, with their kids and with one another. With those conversations comes, of course, the understanding that we’re all experiencing similar exciting, wonderful and (okay) sometimes weird things in our sex lives and let us compare notes, feel comfortable knowing we’re all in it together. And, […]
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Breaks and rearrangements in the genome can lead to severe diseases, even if all genes remain intact. Hi-C, a method to map the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes, promises more reliable and accurate diagnoses of such defects, but is not used in the clinic yet. A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin led […]
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