Fighting viruses is as easy as breathing
The average person will take more than 600 million breaths over the course of their life. Every breath stretches the lungs’ tissues with each inhale and relaxes them with each exhale. The mere motions of breathing are known to influence…
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Gabrielle Union’s Daughter Kaavia James Defends Her Daddy in Cute New Video
Kaavia James may look like her mom, Gabrielle Union, but she is definitely a Daddy’s girl. In a new video posted to Instagram April 7, the 3-year-old girl is absolutely indignant that her dad, Dwyane Wade, isn’t in Union’s new…
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AI predicts if—and when—someone will have cardiac arrest
A new artificial intelligence-based approach can predict, significantly more accurately than a doctor, if and when a patient could die of cardiac arrest. The technology, built on raw images of patient’s diseased hearts and patient backgrounds, stands to revolutionize clinical…
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Momsessed: ABC News Anchor Linsey Davis' Parenting Essentials Include Books, Board Games & an Old-School Baby Shampoo
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Related story 12 Great Gift Ideas for Your Hard-Working Assistant But as a mom, Davis has been on the…
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An immune cell ‘fingerprint’ reveals path for better treatment of autoimmune diseases
Most autoimmune diseases are easy to diagnose but hard to treat. A paper published today in Science proposes using your unique immune cell fingerprint to rapidly identify which treatments will work for your autoimmune disease. “We analyzed the genomic profile…
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Researchers help develop highly accurate, 30-second coronavirus test
With any highly infectious disease, time can be a killer. It is crucial to get a test result for a pathogen quickly, lest someone continue in their daily lives infecting others. And delays in testing have undoubtedly exacerbated the COVID-19…
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How to spend an hour in the gym to reap the benefits of an hours’ strength training
How to spend an hour in the gym, according to an expert personal trainer. A new study from the British Medical Journal found that just 30-60 minutes of resistance training a week lowers mortality risk by 20%. It’s a big claim,…
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Yale researchers discover immune response pathway that leads to severe COVID-19
Yale researchers have identified a particular immune response pathway that leads to severe illness and death in people infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The study was published as a preprint submission on bioRxiv. Researchers have known that once the COVID-19…
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Researchers identify immunosuppression as a key factor leading to colorectal cancer development
Interactions between cells of the immune system and pre-cancerous cells are known to be important contributing factors to the initiation and progression of cancer. However, the dynamics of these interactions have not been widely understood until now. Moffitt Cancer Center…
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Up to 65% of Africans have had COVID, far more than thought
The World Health Organization said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more than those reported. In a new analysis…
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