(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A national research team led by UC Davis Health clinicians and researchers from the University of Michigan, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Columbia University, has derived and validated a new protocol for emergency departments that can determine which infant patients with fevers, age 60 days or younger, are at low risk of significant…
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IMAGE: A new clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) provides guidance to clinicians on the use of positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy to treat obstructive sleep… view more DARIEN, IL — A new clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) provides guidance to clinicians on the use…
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DALLAS, February 18, 2019 — Patients receiving hormone therapy as part of their gender-transition treatment had an elevated risk for cardiovascular events, including strokes, heart attacks and blood clots, according to a study published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. The results are based on analysis of medical records of 3,875 Dutch individuals who…
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IMAGE: These are researchers Maikel Rheinstädter and Adree Khondker of McMaster University. view more Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Physicists at McMaster University have for the first time identified a simple mechanism used by potentially deadly bacteria to fend off antibiotics, a discovery which is providing new insights into how germs adapt and behave at a…
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IMAGE: Lauren Averett Byers, M.D. view more Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that a combination of immune checkpoint blockade and targeted therapies that block normal DNA damage repair (DDR) achieved significant tumor regression in mouse models of small cell lung cancer (SCLC), suggesting a…
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IMAGE: This is Dr. Xin-Yun Lu, molecular behavioral neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. view more Credit: Phil Jones, Augusta University Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (Feb. 18, 2019) — Directly activating a gene important to exciting our excitatory neurons and associated with major depression may help turn around classic symptoms like social…
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Smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day can damage your vision, a study co-authored by a Rutgers researcher finds. The research appears in the journal Psychiatry Research. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 34.3 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes and that more than 16 million live with a…
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As evangelical Christians, Paul and Susan Lim believe that life begins at conception. So when they decided to have a third child, in vitro fertilization was out of the question, since the process often yields extra embryos. But “adopting” the frozen embryos of another couple who had gone through I.V.F. was not. Dr. Lim called…
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Gigi Hadid is not hard to spot. 5 foot 10 with a whoosh of blonde hair and an aura of liquid gold, she’s been flashbulb candy since age two, when she booked her first Baby Guess campaign. But on Burberry’s Fall 2019 runway, Hadid came down sixth on the catwalk, and nobody really knew. Maybe…
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What happens when It Girls grow up? Simone Rocha showed us on her catwalk, enlisting friends and fashion family to model clothes based on intimacy and steely independence. (In the words of her muse, the late artist Louise Bourgeois, «I do not owe the why to anybody. Any body.») Click through to meet the Coven…
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