When it comes to optimizing “longevity fitness” through attention to social, health, and wealth aspects of life, many Americans face intractable inequities based on the color of their skin, where they live, their sex, and who they love. The COVID-19 pandemic has further demonstrated the additional impacts affecting these demographics through the increased number of cases and mortality rates. “The […]
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How do people experience time alone and time with others? Findings from a new Bar-Ilan University study reveal the intricacies of people’s experiences in these basic social conditions. The study used a unique approach of analyzing self-generated text from more than 1,700 participants who performed a sentence-completion task regarding their experience alone and their social experience when in the company […]
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With kids home from school and parents taking on the role of homeschooling — sometimes while working a full-time job on top of it — life is looking a whole lot different amid the coronavirus pandemic. Whether you're struggling to homeschool and work at the same time, constantly grappling with how to talk to your kids about the pandemic or […]
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A research team, affiliated with South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has succeeded in generating bipotential self-renewing iVPCs by direct lineage conversion. Revolutionary vascular progenitor cells (VPCs) for the treatment of ischemic vascular diseases has been discovered. This has been generated by direct lineage conversion, which is less likely to cause cancer during large-scale cell culture, […]
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The United States does not have a health system—it has multiple systems, with no coherence. If you are an armed services veteran, you have access to a comprehensive, centrally coordinated, government-run health service. If you are over 65, you are covered by Medicare, a federally funded, quite generous insurance-based system. If you are poor, the partly federally funded but state-run […]
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Twice a day every day for weeks, Lauryn Hunter, 32, of Stanton, VA, brought out her "smell basket" and one by one took a good long whiff of the few strongly scented bottles inside. She was olfactory training, also called smell training, a practice that theoretically sharpens the nose’s ability to do its job. Her anosmia (aka smell loss) was […]
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We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Prostate cancer is characterised by an abnormal growth of cells in the prostate gland – a walnut-sized gland in men that sits just below the bladder and in front of the rectum. Symptoms can take years to […]
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The UK’s vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 shows similar safety and immunogenicity results in healthy older adults (aged 56 years and over) to those seen in adults aged 18-55 years. The promising early stage results are published in The Lancet. The phase 2 trial finds that the vaccine causes few side effects, and induces immune responses in both parts of the immune […]
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Personal trainer and fitness influencer Alice Liveing explains why we all need to warm up, watch our form and take rest days when working out from home. If you told us at the beginning of the year that we’d be without gyms and, for some, any equipment for nearly most of the year, we’d have been worried about our strength […]
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New study shows coronavirus lockdowns are ineffective Foxhall Cardiology CEO Dr. Ramin Oskoui and president of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity Phil Kerpen weigh in on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ The novel coronavirus has claimed more than 250,000 American lives as of Wednesday evening, according to the latest estimates from Johns Hopkins University. With 250,029 fatalities, the U.S. has now recorded […]
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