John Zey was 50 years old when he asked Avis Ranney permission to date her 46-year-old daughter, Kris Ranney, in September 2018. Though the question was a formality, he wasn’t sure the answer would be yes. Mr. Zey’s interactions with Avis Ranney had become unpredictable. “She started having memory issues a year or two before…
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Dijo: “No sabía qué estaba mal o si podía tratarse”. Añadió que para los padres de adolescentes, que pueden tener dificultades para reconocer el comportamiento anormal en los adolescentes, “a veces es difícil distinguir qué es una enfermedad y qué es una grandiosidad normal o una tristeza normal que podría haber sido causada por la…
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PARIS — Well, that was a plot twist no one could have foreseen. The very last show of the newly back-in-person couture week — the show that would have been (will be, when it happens) a historic show, because it would have been the first official couture show from a Black American designer — the…
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I used to receive messages like this from my ex-boyfriend: “Did we have a joke about flamingos?” And: “How did I get the scar on my hand?” They weren’t invitations for a trip down memory lane; he was asking because he couldn’t remember. “We liked flamingos for their flamboyance,” I said. “The scar is from…
DetailsA presentation at this year’s European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, will discuss the growing evidence that the beta SARS-CoV-2 variant first identified in South Africa is leading to more severe disease in people living with HIV, and that failure to clear SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with…
DetailsIMAGE: Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a grant from USDA NIFA to study food loss and waste reduction at the consumer-grocery retailer interface. Study results… view more Credit: Image by Shutterstock. Research suggests that 40% of food produced in the U.S. is lost or wasted, while approximately one in eight…
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It is believed to be involved in the development of chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases, to trigger diabetes, to be responsible for obesity, even neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s could have their causes here – not to mention depressions and autistic disorders. We are talking about the microbiome – the vast collection of…
DetailsIMAGE: Researchers analyzed almost 30,000 RT-PCR tests on swabs from 4,269 players in 2020: 11.7% turned out positive. The rate was the same as among front-line health workers… view more Credit: Bruno Gualano By Karina Toledo | Agência FAPESP* – A study conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil shows that the incidence…
DetailsIMAGE: Millions of Americans lack adequate access to healthy food. Expanding SNAP benefits and eligibility could eliminate food insecurity in the United States, suggests University of Illinois professor Craig Gundersen. view more Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. – Food insecurity is a major problem in the U.S., and it worsened during the…
DetailsIMAGE: Choroid plexus of mouse neonates. Blue: cell nuclei, green: phalloidin-actin, red: fluorochrome. view more Credit: Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants are particularly susceptible to this type of infection; they develop meningitis 30 times more often than the general population. Group B…
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