At the Temple of Praise, a predominantly Black church in southeast Washington, D.C., clergy, church volunteers and local doctors and pharmacists have worked to vaccinate more than 4,000 people, many in the congregation. The church is still using up its weekly allotments of the Moderna shot, with lines snaking through the parking lot every week…
It seems that there is nothing wrong with blow-drying. But it turns out that improper blow-drying can be very harmful to your gorgeous hair. So how can you prevent this harmful impact? We all know that regular blow-drying can dehydrate hair and break its structure. Before using the hot air, it is worth familiarizing yourself…
Artists, label heads and industry schemers know that success in pop music today requires racking up plays on TikTok and streaming services. But there’s another, unlikely platform that’s picking up steam: Roblox. Roblox is a game-creation engine, first released in 2006, that allows players to customize their own sandbox worlds, create mini-games on multiplayer servers…
En 2012, mediante un intercambio de correos electrónicos con el entonces director financiero de Facebook, revelado durante una audiencia del subcomité antimonopolio de la Cámara de Representantes en 2020, Mark Zuckerberg expuso sus argumentos para comprar competidores más pequeños, entre ellos, en aquel momento, Instagram. Hay efectos de red en torno a los productos sociales…
NEW YORK, NY (May 16, 2021)–Brief pulses of ultrasound delivered to nerves near the kidney produced a clinically meaningful drop in blood pressure in people whose hypertension did not respond to a triple cocktail of medications, reports a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian. In…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – May 16, 2021 – Heart failure (HF) – when the heart can’t pump enough blood and oxygen through the body – affects approximately 6.2 million adults in the United States and is the primary cause of hospitalization in the elderly. Unfortunately, older adults with heart failure often have poor outcomes resulting in…
An innovative cardiac rehabilitation intervention started earlier and more custom-tailored to the individual improved physical function, frailty, quality-of-life, and depression in hospitalized heart failure patients, compared to traditional rehabilitation programs. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National institutes of Health, these new study results were published May 16 in the…
Research led by scientists at Children’s Cancer Institute and published this week in the international journal, Clinical Cancer Research, has found a combination of therapies that appears to be highly effective against high-risk neuroblastoma and other forms of aggressive childhood cancer. Up to half of all cases of neuroblastoma newly diagnosed in children are ‘high-risk’,…
The investigational drug evinacumab reduced triglycerides in patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia (sHTG) and a history of hospitalizations for acute pancreatitis in a phase 2 global study led by Mount Sinai. The fully human monoclonal antibody produced sustained reductions in triglyceride levels of up to 82 percent, depending on the patient’s genotype, while also lowering the…