Making it work! Eva Amurri and Kyle Martino announced their divorce in November 2019 after eight years of marriage and have been coparenting their little ones ever since. The former couple welcomed their daughter, Marlowe, in 2014, followed by their…
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Good for your heart: Heart health tips for a long life
It’s only about the size of your fist. Yet every day your heart pumps the amount of blood that could fill a 2,000 gallon tank. Its job? To keep a constant supply of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood flowing through 60,000…
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Colombia builds inflatable domes for coronavirus patients
A shortage of hospital beds during the coronavirus pandemic has led architects in Colombia to design portable, inflatable chambers for coronavirus patients that can be placed in gyms or parking lots. The domes—each 5 meters (16-feet) wide—can house two patients…
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WHO authorizes AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine for emergency use
The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the U.N. agency’s partners to ship millions of doses to countries as part of a U.N.-backed program to tame the pandemic. In…
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Growing concern over first W.Africa Ebola outbreak for five years
West Africa faced its first known Ebola resurgence since the end of a devastating outbreak in 2016 on Sunday, with Guinea responding to what its health chief called an “epidemic” after seven cases were confirmed. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic stretching…
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Cabozantinib most effective treatment for metastatic papillary kidney cancer
In a SWOG Cancer Research Network trial that put three targeted drugs to the test, the small molecule inhibitor cabozantinib was found most effective in treating patients with metastatic papillary kidney cancer—findings expected to change medical practice. These findings will…
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CDC issues new guidelines for safely reopening schools
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a detailed guide to safely reopen America’s schools, some of which have been closed for in-person learning for nearly a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan is centered…
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Hope for children with bow hunter syndrome
Fusing the neck’s top two vertebrae can prevent repeat strokes in children with bow hunter syndrome, a rare condition that affects a handful of U.S. pediatric patients each year, UT Southwestern researchers suggest in a recent study. The finding, published…
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Insights into the role of DNA repair and Huntington’s disease gene mutation open new avenues for drug discovery
Recent genetic data from patients with Huntington’s disease (HD) show that DNA repair is an important factor that determines how early or late the disease occurs in individuals who carry the expanded CAG repeat in the HTT gene that causes…
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Discovery of a new drug for diabetic retinopathy
A potentially effective treatment for diabetic retinopathy, a disease that swells and scars the retina, has been developed by an Université de Montréal scientist and investigator at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre (MRH-RC). Working with research scientist Pam Tsuruda of the…
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