Imagine you’re in the middle of watching a riveting episode of your favorite TV show. You decide the situation calls for popcorn, so you get up and head to the kitchen. But when you arrive in the kitchen you suddenly stop and think to yourself: “Why did I come in here?” Perplexed, you walk back into the living room. As […]
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Pursuing fellowship training is often financially costly in terms of lifetime earnings compared with starting a career as a general pediatrician immediately after residency, a new report suggests. Researchers found that most pediatric subspecialists — including those practicing neurology, pulmonology, bactrim 400 mg and adolescent medicine ― do not see a financial return from additional training because of the delays […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A 63-year-old woman’s long-standing lower leg ulcerations from livedoid vasculopathy went into remission after she adopted a whole-foods, plant-based diet, according to a case report from New Zealand. The authors note that whenever the patient has deviated from this diet over the past three to four years, generic zma-power online no prescription her symptoms start […]
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Odors evoke powerful memories, an experience enshrined in literature by Marcel Proust and his beloved madeleine. A new Northwestern Medicine paper is the first to identify a neural basis for how the brain enables odors to so powerfully elicit those memories. The paper shows unique connectivity between the hippocampus—the seat of memory in the brain—and olfactory areas in humans. This […]
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A recent methodological study by researchers from the University of Luxembourg shows that the combination of virtual screening approaches, molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning can substantially facilitate small molecule screening investigations targeted at key SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins. Their findings are currently available on the bioRxiv* preprint server. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by the severe […]
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FILE PHOTO: A test tube labelled “vaccine” in front of an AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken, September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Preliminary studies suggest the AstraZeneca vaccine will protect against the P1 variant of the coronavirus, Mauricio Zuma, the head of production at Brazil’s Fiocruz biomedical institute said on Monday, confirming a Reuters report on […]
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Coronavirus pill could be ‘holy grail of therapeutics’: Dr. Marc Siegel Dr. Marc Siegel discusses the potential benefits of Molnupiravir, an experimental COVID-19 pill that works similar to Tamiflu. Dr. Marc Siegel says a new experimental pill developed to treat COVID-19 could be the “holy grail of therapeutics” used against the virus. First-stage testing of Molnupiravir, developed by Merck and […]
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Brittany Matthews can't get enough of the nursery she created for her baby girl. Over the weekend, the new mom, 25, shared a video on her Instagram Story showcasing the nursery for her daughter Sterling Skye, whom she welcomed with fiancé Patrick Mahomes on Feb. 20. The room features a white crib, a floor plant, pink walls and Sterling's name […]
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New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found pill-testing services at Western Australian music festivals would not change people’s intention to take ecstasy if they had not used the drug before, a common argument used by opponents of pill testing. The study also found people who planned to take ecstasy at the festival reported they would not consume more […]
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The precise choice of treatment for breast cancer depends upon the status of the hormone receptors (for estrogen and progesterone). Their conventional determination by means of immunohistochemistry (IHC) is associated with a certain error rate, which can be reduced by adding genomic data. Even conventional statistics can bring about a notable improvement but now it is possible to use decision […]
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