Digital technology is making access to health care easier than ever before. Multiple websites and apps allow consumers to consult general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists from any location, at any time. Recently, we’ve seen the emergence of apps which generate prescriptions almost instantly, removing the need for a person to visit their GP when they need a new prescription. While […]
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Not everyone who catches Ebola dies of the hemorrhagic virus infection. Some people mount a robust immune defense and recover fully. Yet risk factors for susceptibility to infection and disease severity remain poorly understood. A team at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health has used a specially bred population of laboratory […]
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Prosthetic hands restore only some of the function lost through amputation. But combining electrical signals from forearm muscles with other sources of information, such as eye tracking, promises better prostheses. A study funded by the SNSF gives specialists access to valuable new data. The hand’s 34 muscles and 20 joints enable movements of great precision and complexity, which are essential […]
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The phrase “Pavlov’s dogs” has long evoked images of bells, food and salivating dogs. Even though this tried-and-true model of repetitive patterns mimics a variety of learning processes, what happens on a cellular level in the brain isn’t clear. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire took a closer look at the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical for […]
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Certain surgical gowns and surgical packs made by Cardinal Health may not be sterile and should not be used, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. On Jan. 11 and Jan. 15, 2020, the medical device maker alerted its customers about quality issues affecting some of its Level 3 surgical gowns and PreSource procedural packs that contain these gowns. […]
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Data reported in the just published American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Statistics—2020 Update, show heart disease and stroke deaths continue to decline, but that trend has slowed significantly in recent years. Further discouraging is that more people are living in poor health, beginning at a younger age, as a direct result of risk factors that contribute to these leading […]
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DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: As scientists find that a powerful hallucinogenic can ‘reboot’ the brain… Could magic mushrooms be the new Prozac? Many of our most effective and lifesaving drugs are based on unpleasant and even toxic substances. Penicillin, for example, the antibiotic that has saved countless lives, is produced by fungi called penicillium, which appear as mould on bread and […]
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Robbie Williams is one of those rare boyband escapees who has gone on to achieve runaway success as a solo artist, selling millions of records worldwide and topping the UK charts numerous times. The star has also attracted headlines over the years for other reasons too – his battles with alcoholism and substance abuse have largely played out in the […]
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UK will ‘send in military’ to rescue 200 trapped Brits after China BLOCKS them from leaving: Coronavirus evacuees ordered to abandon loved ones and are warned: ‘if you’re sick you’ll be left behind’ UK Government was due to send a plane to pull people out of Wuhan today It would have brought back as many as 200 expats and citizens […]
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Happiness is linked to hormones. If you feed them just the right kind of food, they can make life easy for you. It is said that you are what you eat. Your health, especially your mental health, is dependent on a lot of factors, one of them being food. Everybody wants to be happy in life, but happiness is not […]
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