How do families cope with the emotional upheaval caused by COVID-19 without falling apart? It is possible to keep personal relationships from crumbling under stress by choosing how to react, said Adam Galovan, a University of Alberta expert in family…
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Exercises that can help you fix bad posture
Many of us sit in front of a computer or at a desk for hours each day, and if we’re not careful our backs are usually howling at us. Slouching at your desk may seem relatively harmless but poor posture…
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How buildings, masks can be barriers to coronavirus
Joe Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of its Healthy Buildings program, suspects that broader airborne transmission of the coronavirus is likely, and thinks certain precautions indoors and…
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Risk score can predict long-term multiple sclerosis progression
(HealthDay)—A new risk score is capable of predicting long-term multiple sclerosis (MS) progression, according to a study published online March 19 in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. Claudia Cristina Ferreira Vasconcelos, Ph.D., from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de…
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Inherited mutation can predispose children to a type of brain tumor
Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the German Cancer Research Center have identified ELP1 as a novel predisposition gene in the SHH subgroup of pediatric medulloblastoma. The work appears as an advance online…
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Artificial intelligence can speed up the detection of stroke
Timely detection and accurate segmentation of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) lesions on magnetic resonance images (MRIs) are essential for the triaging patient for endovascular therapy. Lesion segmentation is a routine process where the abnormal areas within brain images are qualitatively…
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New study outlines tool that can assess the chance a disease outbreak is of unnatural origins
Did coronavirus mutate from a virus already prevalent in humans or animals or did it originate in a laboratory? As scientists grapple with understanding the source of this rapidly spreading virus, the Grunow-Finke assessment tool (GFT) may assist them with…
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Coronavirus study that you can all help with as Britain enters lockdown
The streets of the UK are almost empty at the moment, as it was announced that we are all to avoid going outside except for essentials. In what’s being called a lockdown, people are being asked to leave only for…
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Good news: No evidence dogs and cats can get coronavirus
It’s natural to worry about those you love during a public health scare, and you love your pets. The good news is that there is no evidence your dog or cat can contract the coronavirus, the World Health Organization said….
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Blood test can predict clinical response to immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with higher measures of tumor mutations that show up in a blood test generally have a better clinical response to PD-1-based immunotherapy treatments than patients with a lower measure of mutations. A clinical trial…
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