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The little meatballs are growing up — and looking just like Mom and Dad! Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi can’t get over how much her kids, Giovanna, 4, and Lorenzo, 6, resemble her and her husband, Jionni LaValle. “I AM DONE. When my kids actually wanna dress nice and take pictures! Is this not me & Jionni?!” the pregnant Jersey Shore: Family […]
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Cholera has infected at least 1,052 people in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit region, the health ministry said Monday in a new report, marking a massive increase from 139 cases reported four days ago. The mounting cases represent on average more than 200 cases of new infections each day. Although hundreds have been taken ill with cholera since last week, only one death […]
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Duchess Meghan caused waves around the world when she secretly flew to America to have a baby shower in February. But there was one person who was not particularly impressed by the soirée: Queen Elizabeth II’s former press spokesman, Dickie Arbiter. “Baby showers, it’s very much an American thing,” he explains to Us Weekly. “We don’t do it here in […]
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The percentage of young Americans experiencing certain types of mental health disorders has risen significantly over the past decade, with no corresponding increase in older adults, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. “More U.S. adolescents and young adults in the late 2010s, versus the mid-2000s, experienced serious psychological distress, major depression or suicidal thoughts, and more attempted […]
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If you’ve logged onto Twitter or Facebook and have seen posts from your friends freaking out about the Momo Challenge, you’re not alone. Thousands of parents are concerned about the latest online scheme to terrify and, in some instances, encourage children to harm themselves that is infiltrating YouTube clips of popular kids’ shows and games, such as Peppa Pig and […]
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Out of all the drama surrounding Drake’s once-secret relationship with adult star-turned-artist, Sophie Brussaux, there seems to be a silver lining: Their kid is a bona fide painter whose talents rank up there with the best of the best (well, at least in Drake’s opinion). The Toronto-raised rapper, who confirmed his son’s identity in his most recent album, Scorpion, shared […]
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Scientists at the KU Leuven Rega Institute in Belgium have developed a new vaccine against the Zika virus. This vaccine should prevent the virus from causing microcephaly and other serious conditions in unborn babies. In 2015 and 2016, the world was shocked by the sudden and massive outbreak of the Zika virus in Latin America. “The Zika virus is transmitted […]
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A clinical trial to determine whether a smartwatch app that analyzes pulse-rate data can screen for a heart-rhythm disorder has enrolled more than 400,000 participants. Researchers at Stanford Medicine, in collaboration with Apple, launched the Apple Heart Study last November to determine whether a mobile app that uses the optical sensor on the Apple Watch to analyze pulse rate data […]
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A team of researchers at the University of California has found that bacteria residing in the guts of mice are mainly obtained from their mothers and their microbiome makeup remains nearly the same over many generations. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their experiments with house mice and what they learned. Prior research has shown […]
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Physicians who specialize in a devastating and aggressive immune disorder called hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) report in a new study that extra care should be taken to ensure an HLH diagnosis doesn’t obscure possible underlying cancers. Because HLH is dangerously aggressive in its progression and attack on vital organs—often causing death—doctors frequently pursue immediate treatment for the immune disorder after a […]
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