Clinicians in Singapore develop robot for faster COVID-19 nasal swabbing
A group of clinicians from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Duke-NUS Medical School has partnered Biobot Surgical Pte Ltd, a local company which focuses on medical robotics solutions, to develop a robot that automates…
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‘Best’ hospitals should be required to deliver tobacco treatment
A UCLA-led report published today in the JAMA Internal Medicine exposes what the authors call a weakness in the high-profile “Best Hospitals Honor Roll” published annually by U.S. News and World Report. The data used to compile the rankings are…
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COVID-19 Death Toll Nears 200,000 in the United States
MONDAY, Sept. 21, 2020 — As the U.S. COVID-19 case count neared 200,000 on Monday, public health experts debated whether the spread of the virus will continue to slow or a new surge will come, as cold weather returns to…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Put Spotlight on Living with Cancer for Long Term
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. She received her first cancer diagnosis 20 years ago but remained on the U.S. Supreme Court bench. Despite multiple cancer diagnoses, Ginsburg was able to continue working…
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Could coronavirus cause a better flu season? Maybe. Here’s why.
Flu season is approaching, but some medical experts say it’s possible this year’s may shape up to be milder than initially feared. The unlikely reason? The coronavirus pandemic. As people in many parts of the country protect themselves from COVID-19…
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Louisville, Kentucky, has finally banned conversion therapy, but the practice is still legal in over half the US
Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, banned LGBTQ conversion therapy on September 17. Conversation therapy is the practice of using shame, physical pain, and emotionally traumatic tactics to change someone's gender identity or sexuality. Because of its traumatic impacts on LGBTQ youth,…
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Japenese woman, 117, becomes country's oldest living person
Fox News Flash top headlines for September 21 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. The Japanese woman who is considered by the Guinness World Records to be the oldest person in the world has…
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Awareness of COVID-19 in severe dementia patients
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has substantially affected patients with dementia and their caregivers. Owing to the restrictive measures taken worldwide to block the spread of COVID-19 outbreaks (including the declaration of a state of emergency in Japan),…
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Game of Thrones' Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson Says He Could Miss Son's Birth While in Quarantine
View this post on Instagram Date night with my beautiful wife! @kelc33 ? A post shared by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (@thorbjornsson) on Aug 14, 2020 at 2:18pm PDT View this post on Instagram Date night with my beautiful wife! @kelc33…
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Early birds vs night owls: For diabetics, an early bedtime is best
Conducted by the University of Leicester and the University of South Australia, the study assessed the bedtime preferences (sleep chronotypes) of people with type 2 diabetes, identifying a connection between bedtimes and healthy, active lifestyles. It found that night owls…
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