Adding another baby to her brood! Jennifer Love Hewitt is pregnant with her and husband Brian Hallisay’s third child. Christina Perri and More Celebs Announcing Pregnancies in 2020 “Oh baby!” the actress, 42, captioned her Tuesday, May 18, Instagram reveal….
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Of mice and men: Mutation linked to autism impairs oxytocin-mediated social behavior
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition involving impaired social abilities, and this makes it a fascinating subject for neuroscientists like Prof. Teiichi Furuichi of the Tokyo University of Science who study the neuroscience of social behavior. Prof. Furuichi and…
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Lost sleep after death of a spouse can damage health of survivor
The death of a spouse is a devastating event that can affect many aspects of the surviving partner’s life. Sleep loss that often follows can have a negative long-term impact on the health of the widowed spouse, according to new…
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Higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids from prescription fish oil showed no effect on CV events
Patients at high risk for cardiovascular events who had the highest levels of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) in their blood one year after taking daily omega-3 carboxylic acid, a prescription-grade fish oil, had similar rates of major cardiovascular events as people…
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Here’s How 30 Days of Calisthenics Training Changed This Guy’s Body
In a recent YouTube video filmed during lockdown while gyms were closed, fitness influencer Mo Samuels spends 30 days throwing himself into calisthenics training for the first time, in order to present himself with a challenge, and to see whether…
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The effects of eliminating race-based adjustments in estimates of kidney function
An ongoing debate is focused on race-based algorithms in medicine—such as an adjustment for Black race in equations that estimate individuals’ kidney function. A study appearing in an upcoming issue of JASN examines the impact of dropping this race adjustment…
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Plotting the end of Lyme disease
As people weary of being cooped up during a pandemic winter look forward to a summer outside, residents across the northeastern United States are once again confronted with a familiar virulent pathogen lurking in the woods and fields. Unlike coronavirus,…
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Can scientists predict all of the ways the coronavirus will evolve?
Late last year, three distinct and fast-spreading coronavirus variants were observed in the UK, South Africa and Brazil. More recently, variants in India, the US and elsewhere are causing alarm. Does the emergence of these variants portend a protracted battle…
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33% of neighborhoods in largest US cities were ‘pharmacy deserts’
Black and Latino neighborhoods in the 30 most populous U.S. cities had fewer pharmacies than white or diverse neighborhoods in 2007-2015, USC research shows, suggesting that ‘pharmacy deserts’- like so-called food deserts-may be an overlooked contributor to persistent racial and…
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Study confirms greater risk of poor COVID outcomes in minority ethnic groups in England
Minority ethnic groups had higher risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and of COVID-19-related hospitalisations, intensive care (ICU) admissions and death compared with white groups in England, according to an observational study published in The Lancet. The COVID-19 pandemic is…
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