Montreal offers ‘light therapy’ in pandemic winter

In the heart of downtown Montreal, residents of a city battered by months of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic can now indulge in a little seasonal “light therapy”. A special sound and light display has been set up to try to bring some comfort to Montreal. On Festival Square, Montrealers can marvel at imposing luminous zoetropes, fast-revolving wheels that project […]

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Chef Marcel Vigneron and Wife Lauren Rae Levy Introduce Son Kingston: 'He Has Truly Been an Angel'

Introducing Kingston Levy Vigneron! Chef Marcel Vigneron and his wife Lauren Rae Levy Vigneron are sharing the meaningful name and first photos of their new baby boy — who was born via cesarean section at 1:24 p.m. on Dec. 9, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles — with PEOPLE. "Kingston was a name we both just loved," Lauren tells […]

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Cholesterol recycling supports myelin repair

As known from diseases such as arteriosclerosis, cholesterol deposits along blood vessels can be harmful. Similar problems occur in neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Here, defects occur in the regeneration of cholesterol-rich myelin sheaths. The normal recycling of cholesterol from defective myelin sheaths by phagocytes is impaired. This leads to the generation of foam cells that virtually “suffocate” from […]

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What’s causing rare allergic reactions to Pfizer’s vaccine?

Public health officials are investigating the cause of several severe allergic reactions that were reported among hundreds of thousands of people vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine last week.  As of Friday (Dec. 18), six people who received the jab in the U.S. developed anaphylaxis, or a severe allergic reaction that can be life-threatening if left untreated, according to The […]

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