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What would you do if you discovered a weird red bubble growing in your belly button? If your answer is “seek medical attention immediately,” you’ve definitely got the right idea. Because as a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows, that kind of symptom can be a sign of cancer that needs to be treated ASAP. The […]
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Playing professional soccer may be linked to an increased risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a preliminary study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 71st Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, May 4 to 10, 2019. The study also found that soccer players may develop the disease 21 years earlier than people in […]
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With the UFC set to appear in Prague for the first time this February 23rd, Czech researchers at Charles University have been getting into the fighting spirit. “Recent research shows that humans are capable of inferring fighting ability from facial and body cues,” says Dr. Vit Trebicky, lead author of a new study in Frontiers in Psychology. “But our latest […]
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In January, actor-comedian Rob Delaney and his wife suffered the devastating loss of their two-year-old son, Henry. Little Henry passed away from cancer after a surgery to have a brain tumor removed. “Henry was a joy,” Delaney wrote in a February Facebook post. “He was smart, funny, and mischievous and we had so many wonderful adventures together, particularly after he’d […]
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Science is only ever as good as the research that sits behind it. That means the methods we use to conduct science must be robust, repeatable and suitable to the questions we want to ask. When these questions become very complex – for instance, why are some groups of people more likely to get diabetes than others? – we need […]
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Persuading more health workers to have the flu jab to protect themselves and their patients cannot be done through facts and statistics alone, new research by a leading behavioural scientist from Kingston University has revealed. Instead it demands a new approach that connects with people emotionally to sustain immunisation rates at effective levels. Nearly one third of nurses, GPs and […]
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We can’t think of a scarier experience for parents than having a child become so sick an ambulance is required to transport the child as quickly as possible to a hospital. In fact, HGTV Flip or Flop cohosts Christina El Moussa and her ex-husband, Tarek El Moussa, are likely still getting their heart rates back down to normal. Fortunately, their […]
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Do today and yesterday and tomorrow loom large in your thinking, with the more distant past and future barely visible on the horizon? That’s not unusual in today’s time-pressed world—and it seems a recipe for angst. Suppose, instead, you looked down on your life, or at least your calendar, from high overhead; and all your days, future and past, were […]
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Before launching their latest science experiment, University at Buffalo researchers bought more than 200 types of tea, chocolate, herbs and other foodstuffs. The goal wasn’t to stock up for long hours in the lab, but rather to find an elusive, edible contrast agent to show doctors what’s happening inside our bodies. The search culminated with a winner: barley. Turns out […]
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“This is a virus transmitted by mosquitoes that circulates between birds. It can attack the nervous system of certain birds, such as blackbirds, and cause significant mortality. It was first observed in southern Africa, in Swaziland, in 1959,” says Serafin Gutierrez, a virology researcher with CIRAD”S ASTRE research unit. The virus, called Usutu, belongs to the genus Flavivirus, which includes […]
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