Herman James worked out of a barbershop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side until the city temporarily closed all nonessential businesses in March. Looking for a way to stay busy and help New Yorkers take “a step closer to normalcy,” as he put it, Mr. James started cutting hair in Central Park in mid-May. “I put…
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The health benefits of maintaining routine childhood vaccination programmes in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic far outweigh the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission that might be associated with clinic visits, according to a modelling study published in The Lancet Global Health journal. For every additional COVID-19 death that might be associated with additional exposure to the…
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VENICE — From the moment a kidney becomes available, there are just 24 hours to identify the recipient and carry out the transplant. Waiting lists are extremely long, available organs are few and not all of them are ‘ideal’. Furthermore, a recipient has the ability to ‘refuse’ a kidney, for instance by continuing with the…
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DURHAM, N.H.— Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have identified a quicker and less expensive way to count sperm in lobsters that could help scientists looking at any animal better understand mating, a key aspect of species survival. «Scientists used to have to do this using a very tedious or expensive method so it…
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Forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, gradually affect your cognitive function by harming your memory and your ability to think and make decisions. By 2050, experts project that 13.8 million older adults in the United States will develop Alzheimer’s disease and related Dementias (ADRD). Although Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, other…
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Experiences of discrimination over a lifetime is associated with high blood pressure in African American adults, according to findings published this month in the journal Hypertension from researchers at the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health. High blood pressure is linked with many life-threatening conditions, including stroke, heart disease and…
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New research by Welsh academics shows that a patient’s pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past. Post-traumatic stress disorder can occur when a person has experienced a traumatic event such as a car crash, combat stress, or abuse. They can be left with a greater sensitivity, or hyperarousal, to…
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OAK BROOK, Ill. (July 17, 2020) — Private radiology practices have been especially hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the steps they take to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on their practice will shape the future of radiology, according to a special report from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) COVID-19 Task…
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PHILADELPHIA (July 17, 2020) — Scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have received a new grant from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) that will fund continuing research on an antibody developed as part of a longstanding collaboration between the two organizations. The research focus is to…
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Emanuela Marasco, Assistant Professor, Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS), is working to determine whether COVID-19 could be diagnosed via sweat metabolites. If so, this method could enable diagnosis of the virus via non-invasive real-time means. The concentrations of the biochemical content in human sweat have been measured using reagent kits and instruments, such as…
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