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In recovery. Kellan Lutz’s wife, Brittany Lutz, described the “hardest season” of her life after miscarrying at six months. “It feels as though within one day we went from a season that felt like a warm summer day, to the most frigid, windiest, iciest, day ever recorded,” the blogger, 31, captioned a Sunday, February 9, Instagram photo of a flower […]
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On the mend. Audrey and Jeremy Roloff’s daughter, Ember, is on the road to recovery following her pre-Christmas emergency room visit after she came down with respiratory syncytial virus. In an Instagram update, Audrey shared photos of their 2-year-old daughter in good spirits as the little girl was photographed playing outside. “Ember is finally on the up and up🙏🏻 Still […]
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No matter how your baby comes into this world, your body requires a recovery period. But keep in mind that vaginal delivery and cesarean procedures are two very different experiences in which C-section recovery is typically longer and more intense. This is because during a cesarean, either a horizontal or vertical incision is made in the abdominal wall, and a […]
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Lung cancer patients who exercised after the surgery to remove their tumour experienced better fitness levels and strength in their leg muscles as well as less shortness of breath compared to those who did not, new research led by Curtin University has found. The research, published in the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, examined whether exercise training was beneficial for […]
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Morphine and other opioid-based painkillers are very effective at treating pain initially, but studies have shown that the drugs can make patients more pain-sensitive, prolonging their discomfort and increasing their risks of developing chronic pain. A new type of opioid developed by researchers at Tulane University and the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System doesn’t have this side effect and […]
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Spinal cord injury disconnects communication between the brain and the spinal cord, disrupting control over parts of the body. Studying the mechanisms of recovery, Leuven researcher Aya Takeoka (NERF) found that a specific type of neuronal feedback from sites below the injury plays a crucial role during early recovery and for maintaining regained motor functions. These new basic research findings […]
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Scientists trying to identify the roots of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death in U.S. infants between 1 month and 1 year old, have increasingly turned their attention to the neurotransmitter serotonin and the brain cells that produce it. Studies have linked serotonin-producing neurons to the regulation of breathing, which may go awry in SIDS. In […]
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Researchers in the University of Georgia’s Regenerative Bioscience Center have succeeded in reproducing the effects of traumatic brain injury and stimulating recovery in neuron cells grown in a petri dish. This makes them the first known scientific team in the country to do so using stem cell-derived neurons. The procedure, detailed in a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports, has […]
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Mental health law centres and advocates who uphold values of connectedness, hope, empowerment and identity can positively influence people with mental health issues, new research led by Curtin University has found. The research, published in the journal Advances in Mental Health, found that mental health law centres and advocates who implemented the CHIME (connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment) recovery […]
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