Luke Ackroyd wandered his family’s backyard Sunday morning, surveying an expanding vegetable garden. Before him were rising arugula sprouts and the stiff green spikes of young onion plants. A nurse anesthetist, Ackroyd was due on Monday to start a four-day shift on an airway team at Boston Medical Center, a 514-bed hospital and trauma center…
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Everyone has heard the advice: Don’t smoke. Maintain a healthy weight. Exercise regularly. Use alcohol in moderation. Now researchers have created a method for estimating how many extra years of healthy living might be gained by following those admonitions. Their analysis, in JAMA Internal Medicine, followed 116,043 people ages 40 to 75 over an average…
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It may be a good idea to give one another more than six feet of space while exercising outside during the current coronavirus pandemic, according to a compelling new study that looked at how air flows around bodies in motion. The study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal and the results need…
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Obesity in preschoolers may be linked to bone fractures in childhood, scientists report. Spanish researchers recorded body mass index in 466,997 children who underwent routine preschool health screening at age 4 between 2006 and 2013. They followed them for up to 11 years. In this study, which used World Health Organization definitions for body weight,…
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Sequestered during the pandemic, I find myself thinking that cancer patients’ expertise in fear can help others heed its warnings. We all need tactics not only to overcome the destructive capacity of fear but also to tap its protective potential. An iconic portrait of one petrified creature, Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” captures the fright…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageLines at a polling station in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday.Credit…Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters South Korea voters head to the polls wearing face masks and standing three feet apart. Millions of voters, all wearing masks, lined up at polling places across South Korea on Wednesday to elect the country’s 300-member National…
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Major League Baseball employees, from players to stadium workers to executives, are participating this week in a 10,000-person study aimed at understanding how many people in various parts of the United States have been infected with the coronavirus. Each participant will have a finger pricked to produce blood that will be tested for the presence…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageThe Royal London Hospital on Tuesday. The government’s Office of National Statistics indicated that coronavirus deaths could be at least 10 percent higher than the official toll.Credit…Andrew Testa for The New York Times Virus-related deaths in Britain may be 10 percent higher than the official toll. Britain, with the…
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X-rays allow researchers to map out the 3D structure of proteins relevant to diseases at the scale of molecules and atoms, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Advanced Light Source (ALS) X-ray facility has been recalled to action to support research related to COVID-19, the coronavirus disease that has already infected about 2 million…
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The recent COVID-19 outbreak has been the main reason behind several temporary school closures around the world. This has made the idea of continuing to pursue educational activities during this time a challenging proposition. The current lockdowns implemented in different countries has forced schoolteachers who wish to complete their current teaching periods to transition immediately…
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