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Hindawi and Maverick announce open access publishing services collaboration

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Maverick Publishing Specialists and Hindawi Limited have recently entered into an open access publishing collaboration whereby a dedicated team of Maverick specialists and Hindawi’s Publishing Partnerships business division will work collaboratively to broaden awareness of Hindawi’s range of publishing services amongst journal publishers. Hindawi’s publishing partnerships services, built upon its open source journal management platform,…

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Improved use of databases could save billions of euro in health care costs

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Years of suffering and billions of euro in global health care costs, arising from osteoporosis-related bone fractures, could be eliminated using big data to target vulnerable patients, according to researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. A study of 36,590 patients who underwent bone mineral density scans in the West of…

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New Yorkers With Many Health Conditions Are Now Eligible for Vaccination

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New Yorkers with chronic health conditions that made them newly eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine flooded a state website and call center Sunday morning, leaving many unable to immediately schedule appointments at mass vaccination centers. State officials said on Sunday that 73,000 appointments had been scheduled as of 11:30 a.m., while 500,000 people went through…

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7 Virus Variants Found in U.S. Carrying the Same Mutation

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As Americans anxiously watch variants first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa spread in the United States, scientists are finding a number of new variants that originated here. More concerning, many of these variants seem to be evolving in the same direction — potentially becoming contagious threats of their own. In a study…

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Despair Deepens for Young People as Pandemic Drags On

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The situation was so serious, he said, that his team did not send children home for Christmas, as it usually would. Isolation has also disrupted the usual teenage transition, when young people move from belonging to their family to belonging to their peers, Dr. Vermeiren added. “They feel empty, lonely, and that loneliness brings them…

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New Yorkers with chronic health conditions can now sign up for the vaccine.

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Starting Sunday, New Yorkers with chronic health conditions like obesity and hypertension can schedule their appointments to get the Covid-19 vaccine at state-run mass vaccination sites. They join a growing number of people in the state who are eligible for the vaccine despite a shortage in supply. Those who are now eligible include adults who…

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W.H.O. Researcher Seeking Coronavirus Origins on His Trip to China

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What about the cases that appeared before the outbreak in the seafood market? There was other spread going on outside of Huanan market. There are other patients who have no links to the market, quite a few in December. There were other markets. And we do know that some of the patients had links to…

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Sharing Unexpected Acts of Kindness

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Has this happened to you? You’re going about your day, minding your business. Then you suddenly spot a caring interaction that lifts your spirits, like a couple embracing or a stranger lending a hand to another. These days, the world could use a pick-me-up. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, we asked readers to share when they…

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Flower Petal Poem Game

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In Victorian England, flowers were sometimes used as a form of coded communication to express feelings that could not be spoken aloud. Each bloom was said to have a specific meaning — for example, daisies conveyed innocence, while tulips were a declaration of love — and a bouquet might be assembled to send a secret…

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Podcasts to Listen to If You’re Single on Valentine’s Day

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It is a brutal time to be single — even before Valentine’s Day showed up. The spontaneous whimsy of a regular dating life has been replaced by rolling restrictions, questionable adherence to social-distance protocols and a whole new meaning to “getting tested.” And if you have been in a relationship throughout the past year, you…

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