When Cassie Dippo’s family moved from the city of New York to the slopes of Alta, Utah, in 1965, she was 9 years old. The snow was dry and white and famously light and often so deep it reached well past her (and her father’s) waist. There were four chairlifts. Lift tickets were $4.50. And…
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“Todo tranqui” — it’s all good! — is a phrase you get used to hearing when you spend time in Uruguay. This small country has a laid-back vibe that’s like Xanax for the soul, plus some of the best beaches in South America to boot. Exploring them usually means renting a car in the capital,…
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In the age of the internet, it’s easier than ever to pull together lots of information to find the best doctor. And if you’re like most patients, the metric you probably rely on most is the doctor’s credentials. Where did she go to school? How many patients has he treated with this condition? You might…
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It was not the most ominous sign of health trouble, just a nosebleed that would not stop. So in February 2017, Michael Schaffer, who is 60 and lives near Pittsburgh, went first to a local emergency room, then to a hospital where a doctor finally succeeded in cauterizing a tiny cut in his nostril. Then…
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IMAGE: Materials chemists led by Trisha Andrew at UMass Amherst have developed a fabric that can harvest body heat to power small wearable microelectronics such as activity trackers. They produced and… view more Credit: UMass Amherst/Andrew lab AMHERST, Mass. – Many wearable biosensors, data transmitters and similar tech advances for personalized health monitoring have now been…
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PHOENIX, Ariz. — Jan. 22, 2019 — The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has identified a polio-like virus as a potential cause of an outbreak of a disease known as Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a crippling condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis usually among children. At the request…
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IMAGE: Claudia Rebola (left) worked with graduate design students Norberto Sanchez, Sebastian Ramirez (standing) and Swati Chopra to create AntiOD. view more Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Services Like many cities across the country, Cincinnati has been rocked by the opioid epidemic, with an ever-fluctuating range of 50 to 80 overdoses per week across the Tristate. Many…
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IMAGE: USH1 protein of the MIO7A gene and identified mutations. The mutations that have not been previously described are marked in blue. view more Credit: Courtesy of Dmitry Zaletaev A team of scientists from Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU) together with their colleagues from leading scientific centers of Moscow and India described a number…
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Jan. 23, 2019 – A diagnosis of prediabetes should be a warning for people to make lifestyle changes to prevent both full-blown diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine. “We know that having diabetes increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, so in our study…
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Children’s Respiratory Symptoms Can Last Up to Three Weeks Symptoms of children’s respiratory tract infections, including runny nose, dry cough, and sore throat, can seem never-ending. According to new research, it takes 23 days for 90 percent of children to recover from respiratory tract infection symptoms. Researchers used a novel online study design to follow…
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