Cooped up with a bad back? An osteopath gives their top tips on how to help ease your agony Feeling a bit cooped up? Tense and achy? It’s not surprising if you are, really, considering the situation. To add to this,…
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‘In a crisis like this, an antiviral drug could buy us some time’
Francesco Stellacci, a professor in EPFL’s School of Engineering, discusses his research in the field of nanomedicine and how it could help us get past the coronavirus crisis. As the COVID-19 outbreak rages on, researchers are in a race against…
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What It's Like to Be An Uninsured Mom in 2020
A few years ago, Linda Spencer became a single mom. Shortly after that, her company downsized and she lost her job. To make ends meet, she started Awesomesauce Photography, and is now self-employed wedding photographer. “This way I could get…
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Experts Reveal the Secret to Having an Attractive and Professional LinkedIn Photo
If there’s a social media network for professional or business purposes, it’d be Linkedin. According to some experts, LinkedIn is like Facebook which allows you to connect with business-minded people to expand your professional network. But unlike Facebook where you…
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Revealed an alteration related to the loss of effectiveness of a treatment in lung cancer
The Cancer Genetics Group of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, led by Montse Sánchez-Céspedes, together with Luis Montuenga from CIMA, and Enriqueta Felip from Vall d’Hebron Hospital, has revealed that inactivation of RB1 through intragenic rearrangements is frequent in…
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WHO says coronavirus outbreak is NOT an international emergency
WHO says coronavirus outbreak is NOT an international emergency – despite over 600 reported in China and 10 other countries The World Health Organization said Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak is not a public health emergency of international concern Officials…
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A new way to give an old tuberculosis vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys
What if you could make the tuberculosis vaccine much more powerful, not by altering the ingredients, but just by changing the way it is given to people? It would help prevent the infection that kills more people every year than…
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An often-made claim that e-cigarettes are ‘95% safer’ is not valid
The frequently cited claim that e-cigarettes are “95% less risky” or “95% less harmful” than combustible cigarettes is outdated, misleading and invalid—and should no longer be made in discussions on the dangers of vaping, according to an editorial published today…
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We Tried an App Designed to Help You Ditch Your Glasses
Several years ago, while I was doing final sweeps through a book I’d just written, I began to notice that my eyes were having a hard time speeding through the manuscript. That didn’t really bother me, because the protagonist, a…
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