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So close, yet so far! Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren Akins, are anxiously awaiting their third daughter’s arrival — hopefully ahead of her due date. “For the sake of @laur_akins sanity, we are hoping little baby girl gets here this week,” the country singer, 29, captioned a Tuesday, January 21, Instagram video. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7lgb7wBkGB/ For the sake of @laur_akins sanity, we […]
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a category of refractory inflammatory disease, of which ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are the main types. Current studies suggest that IBD is a complex autoinflammatory disease determined by genetic and environmental factors, and is the major cause of gastrointestinal cancer. Because of its complex and refractory character, researchers have focused on determining […]
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Ozzy Osbourne revealed in a new interview that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in February 2019. “It’s been terribly challenging for us all,” the rock star, 71, told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America on Tuesday, January 21. “I did my last show New Year’s Eve at The Forum. Then I had a bad fall. I had to have […]
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Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. has made two hires as it works to build up its e-commerce operations. The company has added Kevin Metz as vice president of e-commerce and Vanathy Lakshmi as vice president of digital product. The hires are part of Sally's plan to create "a consumer-driven digital environment that operates seamlessly in partnership with our stores and supply […]
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Taiwan on Tuesday reported its first confirmed case of the new SARS-like coronavirus as the government warned the public against travelling to Chinese city where it emerged. The patient is a Taiwanese woman in her fifties, living in Wuhan, who returned to the island on Monday with symptoms including fever, coughing and a sore throat. Asian countries have ramped up […]
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People who had recently used psychedelics such as psilocybin report a sustained improvement in mood and feeling closer to others after the high has worn off, shows a new Yale study published the week of Jan. 20 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The results of a field study of more than 1,200 people attending multi-day […]
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Winter wonderland! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 8-month-old son, Archie, saw snow for the very first time in Canada. “It has also been a privilege to meet so many of you, and to feel your excitement for our son Archie, who saw snow for the first time the other day and thought it was bloody brilliant,” the Duke of Sussex, […]
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For most patients, melanoma begins with a small, pigmented spot on their skin that they notice starts to change. Many primary melanomas can be cured by having this lesion removed, but melanoma can also recur and spread; an analysis of the removed lesion can offer some information on the likelihood that the cancer will come back. Today, lesions are analyzed […]
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The US will begin screening passengers Friday arriving from a Chinese city at the heart of a mysterious SARS-linked virus, officials said, after an outbreak that has stricken dozens claimed a second life. Three confirmed cases meanwhile have now been reported outside China—two in Thailand and one in Japan—even as health authorities around the world sought to assure the public […]
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Numerous studies have shown that men are more susceptible to cancer than women; however, the reason for this difference remains poorly understood. A new study by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has identified a key biological mechanism that puts men at higher risk of cancer: loss of function in certain genes of the sex-determining Y chromosome. […]
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