DALLAS, March 19, 2021 — New research found patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had a higher risk of stroke, compared with patients who had similar infectious conditions such as influenza and sepsis in prior studies. Those who had an ischemic stroke were more likely to be older, male, Black race, or have high blood pressure, Type…
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In-school COVID-19 transmission is rare – even among close school contacts of those who test positive for the virus – when schools heed public health precautions such as mandatory masking, social distancing and frequent hand-washing, according to results of a pilot study in Missouri aimed at identifying ways to keep elementary and secondary schools open…
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On Sunday afternoon around 2 p.m., Ludwig Ahgren, a Twitch streamer in Los Angeles, turned his camera on and began streaming. He hasn’t stopped. Over the past five days Mr. Ahgren has maintained a near constant livestream of his life. He plays video games, chats, cooks, eats and sleeps, all on stream. In the evenings,…
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An accident involving a Peloton treadmill has left a child dead, the company’s chief executive announced on Thursday. In a letter posted on the company’s website, John Foley, Peloton’s C.E.O. and a co-founder, said that the company, known for its wildly popular interactive stationary bikes, had recently learned of the fatal accident and was aware…
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The doctors’ group, along with another advocacy organization, Human Rights Watch, went on to expose the public health threat, particularly to children, posed by anti-personnel landmines in Cambodia. In a report, it called for an international ban on those weapons. The physicians group then joined with five other organizations to form the International Campaign to…
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News Group Newspapers, which publishes The Sun, said it had made a “legitimate request” of Mr. Portley-Hanks to research details on Ms. Markle and her relatives, using databases for which he had a license. “He was instructed clearly in writing to act lawfully and he signed a legal undertaking that he would do so,” it…
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Ham of the smoked, wet-cured variety is surprisingly easy to make at home, but you’ll need time, refrigerator space and one special ingredient: pink curing salt. Also known as Prague powder #1 (named for where it was originally developed), it contains 6.25 percent sodium nitrite, a naturally occurring compound that gives ham (not to mention…
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Every Sunday, Jos Pimentel-Cardoso, a 22-year-old student at Bard Microcollege in Brooklyn, checks on her dozens of houseplants and plays music for them. She often plays Mort Garson’s 1976 album “Mother Earth’s Plantasia.” And she has plenty of company. The self-released album — featuring 10 wordless tracks created on a Moog synthesizer to play for…
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I met Steven Spurrier no more than a half dozen times or so over the years, but each time I came away the better for it. For one thing, Mr. Spurrier, who died on March 9 at 79, always left me with something memorable. The first time was in 2007 in Napa Valley at a…
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About 900 of these people were seniors who underwent regular checkups at medical clinics to assess their health. Dr. Gibbons and his colleagues found that in midlife, starting at around age 40, people started to show distinct changes in their microbiomes. The strains that were most dominant in their guts tended to decline, while other,…
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