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No matter how your baby comes into this world, your body requires a recovery period. But keep in mind that vaginal delivery and cesarean procedures are two very different experiences in which C-section recovery is typically longer and more intense. This is because during a cesarean, either a horizontal or vertical incision is made in the abdominal wall, and a […]
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QIMR Berghofer researchers have discovered a potential new cancer immunotherapy target that involves switching off a regulatory cell to stop tumors growing and spreading. The study findings have been published today in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Senior researcher and head of QIMR Berghofer’s Cancer Immunoregulation and Immunotherapy Laboratory, Associate Professor Michele Teng, said […]
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Father-son feud! Brad Pitt didn’t visit his 18-year-old son, Maddox, at Yonsei University earlier this month while the actor was traveling overseas. “Brad didn’t try to see Maddox,” a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “There’s been no contact between them.” That being said, the Ad Astra star, 55, hasn’t given up hope on reconciling with his and […]
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As thousands of Aussie kids start summer holidays this week, there’s no doubt parents will see an increase in kids’ screen time, snack time and general relaxation. After a busy school year, it’s well-deserved, but could this change in activity have an adverse impact on their health? In a new University of South Australia study, researchers are examining changes in […]
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Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups—an outcome that suggests a more complex illness that previously thought. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have shown the Gulf War Illness patients have one of two different of kinds of changes […]
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One of the cool things you can do with a fitness tracker is sync up with your friends and family to motivate one another and even get a little friendly competition going. One of the not-so-cool consequences of this is discovering something you’d really rather wasn’t true about their routine. Like when you find out your boyfriend is cheating on you […]
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Welcome to the world! Chris Brown shared a sweet moment with his newborn son in their first photo together. “AEKO CATORI BROWN,” the rapper, 30, captioned a black-and-white Instagram upload on Wednesday, December 11, featuring his little one’s feet in his hands. News broke last month that the Virginia native and his ex-girlfriend Ammika Harris had welcomed their first child […]
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Dwayne Johnson Most kids would probably brag to their friends if their dad played the character Maui in Disney’s Moana, but not Johnson’s four-year-old daughter Jasmine. The star, who is also dad to Simone, 18, and Tiana Gia, 1, told PEOPLE that he recently watched the 2016 animated film with his daughter and was excited to tell her that he […]
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Huntington’s disease (HD) is an incurable and fatal hereditary disease. Developing disease-modifying drugs to treat patients with HD depends on studying them in animal models. Scientists evaluated the mouse models used for developing new treatments for mood disorders in HD and recommended which of these models are most relevant to their studies. Their findings are published in the Journal of […]
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Mosquito-borne disease is a concern for health authorities around Australia. Each year, thousands fall ill to Ross River virus disease caused by mosquito bites. Tracking mosquito populations can help us respond to these threats, and new research suggests citizen scientists may be the key to doing this more effectively. Health authorities coordinate the surveillance of mosquitoes and their pathogens. These […]
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