In a study of adolescents who have used e-cigarettes in the past month, certain factors were associated with frequent use. In the Public Health Nursing study of 1,556 adolescents in Korea, 55.1% reported that they had used e-cigarettes for 6 to 30 days in the past month and 44.9% used them from 1 to 5…
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Research published in Anaesthesia suggests that a “soft opt-out” system may increase consent rates for organ donation after death, which could boost the number of organs available for transplantation. The legal frameworks for consent for deceased organ donation fall into two major categories: opt-in, where expressed consent is required from the patient or their relatives,…
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Bottom Line: Combining intratumoral electroporation of interleukin-12 (IL-12) DNA (tavokinogene telseplasmid, or TAVO) with the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) led to clinical responses in patients with immunologically quiescent advanced melanoma, according to results from a phase II trial. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association…
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I’ve sabered open a bottle of Champagne. But disgorging one? Yes, try this at home. Just follow the step-by-step that comes with Família Geisse’s Cave Amadeu Rústico Nature from southern Brazil. In sparkling wine parlance, disgorging refers to extracting the sediment, or lees, that accumulate as the wine develops. Traditionally it’s done by gradually turning…
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Here’s what you need to know: Caught violating his own social distancing advice, a top British scientist quits a government panel. Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist whose frightening projections of coronavirus deaths precipitated the lockdown in Britain, resigned from the government’s scientific advisory group on Tuesday, after admitting he breached social distancing rules by illicitly meeting…
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Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript Coronavirus Task Force Will Take ‘Different Form,’ Trump Says President Trump said the White House’s coronavirus task force would be shut down and be replaced with a new group geared toward reopening the country. “I think that, as far as the task force, Mike Pence…
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His son Andrew said the cause was a combination of pulmonary fibrosis and a more recent emergence of lung cancer that was untreatable because of the fibrosis. The institution that cared for Dr. Marks at the end was very different from the one he joined in 1980 as president and chief executive, after being recruited…
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Autumn Road in Little Rock, Ark., is the type of doctor’s practice that has been around long enough to be treating the grandchildren of its eldest patients. For 50 years, the group has been seeing families like Kelli Rutledge’s. A technician for a nearby ophthalmology practice, she has been going to Autumn Road for two…
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LOS ANGELES — Last year at this time, Disney was celebrating the record-breaking arrival of “Avengers: Endgame” in theaters. On Tuesday, with movie theaters closed worldwide, along with theme parks, Disney said that its quarterly profit fell more than 90 percent. And that was for a period that was only partly affected by the coronavirus.…
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The #1 Quarantine Pick Racerback Tank Top Topshop nordstrom.com $15.00 Is it just me, or is this the official tank top of TikTok? Ribbed, high-necked, and slightly cropped, this $15 style goes well with sweatpants, sourdough starter, and attempting to learn the new ‘Savage Remix’ dance.
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