By all accounts, Marco Abbey is the sort of guy you’d welcome on any trip. He holds doors and hauls suitcases. He has a great sense of direction. He’s game to try different cultural activities. It’s no wonder Marilyn Abbey, his grandmother, has crowned him “the perfect travel companion.” If Grandma knows best, it’s because…
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This article is part of our latest Design special section, which is about getting personal with customization. All happy kitchen renovations are alike — and they live mostly in our dreams. “The existing space is tight and usually comes with restrictions,” said Sami Haxhija, a contractor in New York City, ticking off the difficulties. “You…
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If you are sitting down to read this article, you may be doing your resting wrong, according to a fascinating new study of hunter-gatherer tribespeople and how they idle. The study finds that hunter-gatherers tend to lounge about during the day almost as much as those of us in the developed world. But their approach…
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People of all ages are concerned about the spread of the coronavirus, and teenagers, as a group, tend to experience emotions especially intensely. If you are raising, teaching or otherwise caring for an adolescent who is feeling very nervous about it, here are five things you can do. 1. Normalize Anxiety Anxiety can be healthy.…
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MUMBAI, India — At the top of a staircase covered in dirt and sequins, several dozen Indian artisans hunched over yards of fabric, using needles to embroider garments for the world’s most powerful fashion brands. They sewed without health benefits in a multiroom factory with caged windows and no emergency exit, where they earned a…
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Below please find links to new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. All coronavirus-related content published in Annals of Internal Medicine is free to the public. A compete collection is available at https://annals.org/aim/pages/coronavirus-content. COVID-19: Protecting Hospitals from the Invisible Michael Klompas, MD, MPH Ideas and Opinions FREE full text: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M20-0751 Media…
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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine—a nonprofit with more than 25,000 members in California—filed a lawsuit against the State of California on March 11 for failing to include cancer-causing processed meat—such as hot dogs, bacon, and deli meat—on the state’s list of substances known to cause cancer, as required by Proposition 65. The lawsuit argues…
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Oxford, March 11, 2020 — In a new retrospective study, researchers found that the use of immunosuppressive therapy does not increase the occurrence or recurrence of vulvar or vaginal cancer in women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, earlier onset of cancer was reported, and lymphomas were found in some patients, which is very rare…
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The popular painkiller ibuprofen may have more significant effects on the liver than previously thought, according to new research from the University of California, Davis. The study in laboratory mice also shows marked differences between males and females. The work is published Feb. 25 in Scientific Reports. Ibuprofen belongs to a group of drugs called…
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TAMPA, Fla (March 11, 2020) — Bridging integrator 1, known as BIN1, is the second most common risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, according to genome-wide studies of genetic variants. Yet, scientists know little about what this protein does in the brain. Now a new preclinical study has discovered that a lack of BIN1 leads…
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