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Jackson’s a big boy now! Tori Roloff shared adorable photos of her and husband Zach’s not-so-little 2-year-old son on Thursday evening, with Jackson smiling wide as he sits on his “big boy” bed for the first time. “First night in his big boy bed,” the Little People, Big World star captioned the photos. “You can stop growing now Jackson!” The […]
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Piece of cake! Kirsten Dunst didn’t think she’d have an easy time starting a family, but her first pregnancy was unexpected. “I thought I would have a hard time getting pregnant, but it was a surprise,” the actress, 37, revealed in her Net-A-Porter cover story, published on Friday, August 23. “If I hadn’t met Jesse [Plemons], I would have frozen […]
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One year down. Ben Affleck recently reached a major milestone, celebrating 365 days of sobriety. “Ben is in a great place in his recovery and life,” a source close to the Oscar winner tells Us Weekly. “He continues to want to be the best father and friend he can be.” Affleck, 47, and his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, have been doing […]
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For the Batek people of the Malaysian peninsula rainforest, laughter can be dangerous. Within the system of taboos of these egalitarian hunter-gatherers, laughing in certain situations can cause storms, illness or even death. And yet sometimes, Batek people—like anyone else—laugh when they know they shouldn’t. In fact, laughter can be especially pleasurable when it’s forbidden. What does this paradox tell […]
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Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer in the last decade, yet many tumors do not respond to these new therapies. A new genome-wide screen of 20,000 human genes in T cells have turned up several new candidates to unleash the immune system’s ability to attack a variety of tumor types, Yale researchers report Aug. 22 in the journal Cell. […]
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Teacher training followed by classroom education with information, activities, and emotional support improves lifestyles in teachers and students, according to research to be presented at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology. The study suggests that knowledge alone is insufficient to change behaviour. “Numerous studies have addressed health issues in the school setting, but most have focused […]
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Tyler Hubbard might be picking up a sweet side gig in the near future! The Florida Georgia Line member, 32, joked about “offering my ‘DUDEla’ services for those in need of a good shoulder to lay on during contractions, back rubs, and a good flashlight for when the head starts showing” on Thursday, sharing a gallery of snaps from his […]
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They’re physically and emotionally wounded—most likely suffering from post-traumatic stress. Members of the United States military who serve abroad often return to the U.S. to treat their injuries and must be transported by aeromedical evacuation between medical facilities. Those who undergo these types of evacuations are in states of both chronic and acute stress. While much is known about the […]
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For decades, neuroscientists have relied on a technique for reading out electrical “spikes” of brain activity in live, behaving subjects that tells them very little about the types of cells they are monitoring. In a new study, researchers at the University of Tuebingen and MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory demonstrate a way to increase their insight by distinguishing […]
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Childhood hearing loss: Almost all of hearing loss can be treated if timely identified. 60 per cent of childhood hearing can be prevented, according to World Health Organisation (WHO). Speech and hearing are essential instruments of learning, playing and building social skills for a child. If hearing loss goes undetected or untreated, there is a lot that the child misses […]
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