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Michelle Obama is a fashion icon. Remember when she wore thigh-high Balenciaga boots covered in glittering gold sequins on her book tour back in December? Or the sparkly black power suit she wore at this year's Grammy Awards? OK, we could go on all day, but you get the point. Michelle doesn't mess around when it comes to style, so it should […]
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Scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have identified an enzyme in the brain that may be an intriguing target for interventions against Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The researchers suggest that the enzyme, a serine/threonine kinase known as LIMK1, may play an important role in the degradation of dendritic spines, the connections between neurons in the brain. In […]
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Even though she has eczema and the genetic disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Jameela Jamil announced on Tuesday, June 25, that she won’t cover up her physical imperfections with body makeup. “I have such severe eczema all over that my legs are covered in huge patches of pigment loss from scratching. I have a tonne of stretch marks, and because I have […]
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A large clinical trial to assess treatments for preventing people at high risk from developing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has begun. The study is comparing the safety and efficacy of a new MDR-TB drug, delamanid, with the decades-old TB drug isoniazid for preventing active MDR-TB disease in children, adolescents and adults at high risk who are exposed to adult household members […]
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Nicholas is on a boat! Enrique Iglesias‘ 18-month-old son couldn’t be happier to be enjoying the full swing of summer, babbling up a storm with his dad as they cruised along the water over the weekend. Wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and blue outfit complete with a Cars T-shirt, the blue-eyed toddler gazes out the vessel’s window, exclaiming “Wawa!” while pointing at […]
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People exposed to chemical warfare agents (CWAs) often incur chronic damage to their lungs, skin and eyes, for example. They also frequently succumb to depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. This is shown by research on survivors from the 1988 gas attacks against Kurdish Halabja in Iraq. “The findings show that exposure to chemical warfare agents, especially sulfur mustard, results in […]
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Experts at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and 45 worldwide scientific and medical societies are pushing to change national guidelines that would allow more patients with the chronic diseases of obesity and diabetes to be eligible for bariatric surgery. Obesity affects almost 40 percent of the population—or about 93 million adults—in the United States, according to the Centers […]
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You see an object, you think of its name and then you say it. This apparently simple activity engages a set of brain regions that must interact with each other to produce the behavior quickly and accurately. A report published in eNeuro shows that a reliable sequence of neural interactions occurs in the human brain that corresponds to the visual […]
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So you're easing into a sex session with your partner and even though you're totally up for it, things are a little dry down below. (Hey, it happens.) You don't have any lubricant on hand, so you work up a little spit and use it as your makeshift lube. Or you have your partner go down on you and use their […]
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Keeping it real! Jana Kramer came to her 3-year-old daughter Jolie’s defense after the toddler threw a temper tantrum. “This is 3,” the “Beautiful Lies” singer, 35, captioned a Sunday, June 23, Instagram video of her little one screaming and throwing herself to the ground. “No matter how much Mike [Caussin] and I discipline, love and parent. Jolie isn’t a […]
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