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It’s been a long day. You’re thirsty, and the only water you have has been sitting in your reusable water bottle for a few days. Is it the worst thing in the world to knock it back? Apparently, it’s not that big of a deal. Even if you’re concerned about bacteria and germs on the surface, they’re likely just your […]
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There are a lot of upsides to decorating your home with a live Christmas tree during the holidays. For one, you don’t have to worry about storing an artificial tree for 11 months out of the year. The smell of a fresh evergreen is also hard to beat. Then again, disposing of your tree after the holidays can also be […]
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In a novel study comparing healthy cells from people in their 20s with cells from people in their 80s, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have documented that cell division rates appear to consistently and markedly slow down in humans at older ages. The researchers say the findings may help explain why cancer—long considered a disease […]
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It’s not just you — sometimes it can seem like everyone has an opinion or nugget of well-meaning advice when it comes to getting pregnant. Unfortunately, all of that talk often leads to some pretty dated and wildly inaccurate old wives’ tales about trying to conceive. These conception myths vary in absurdity — from throwing your underwear on the roof […]
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If you’re an ’80s babe, you’ve probably watched Saved by the Bell. The sitcom — which followed the fictional lives of Zack Morris, Kelly Kapowski, Samuel "Screech" Powers, Albert Clifford "A.C." Slater, Jessica "Jessie" Myrtle Spano, and Lisa Marie Turtle — was a staple in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and today, it remains a series most of us remember […]
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Mechanical thrombectomy is an increasingly important therapy for acute stroke that can also benefit the very old – assuming a careful selection of patients and risk assessment. This is a finding of a Portuguese study presented at the 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) in Lisbon. For several years now, the endovascular thrombectomy has been a way […]
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Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see age-related vascular changes reverse by the equivalent of 15 to 20 years within six weeks, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research. The study, published this week in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting pharmaceutical-grade nutritional […]
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