Month: July 2020

Air fryers are the newest must-have kitchen gadgets that claim to help people prepare healthier meals while enjoying the fried tastes and textures of favorite foods. But does this popular cooking appliance make meals healthier? Find out below. According to Men’s Health, the air fryer is enjoying increasing popularity. The selling point of air fryers is they use significantly less
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Equitable access should be a key consideration when public health systems are rebuilt in the wake of COVID-19, said Michael Ryan, MD, executive director of the Health Emergencies Programme at the World Health Organization (WHO), who called this “a critical point
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This content originally appeared on Beyond Type 1. Republished with permission. By Katie Doyle If one of your resolutions for 2018 was to learn more about getting involved in advocacy, be a more effective advocate or support advocacy groups, we have a story that will get you motivated! Check out this profile for some advo
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New research out of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) utilizes digital image analysis technology to shed light on some of the challenges children face when representing their imaginations through the medium of paint. The research also offers concrete insight into the development of children’s psyches, and importantly, offers suggestions for educators
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A new study by researchers at Columbia University and the International Center for Infectiology Research, Inserm and published on the preprint medRxiv* in July 2020 reveals that children with the condition Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) have a distinctly different pattern of antibody generation compared to adults with COVID-19 disease. This could provide a
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Over the past five months (hard to believe we are five months in to life with COVID), we have had to adapt our way of life completely. From going grocery shopping, to having friends over to visit, to planning family vacations, we have a new set of steps we must go through BEFORE we do
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Harvard Medical School scientists have developed new computational techniques that can make sense of the bodily movements of mice, organizing them into notions of syllables and grammar. Along the way they also proposed a solution to a longstanding problem in neuroscience—how to objectively study complex three-dimensional patterns of animal behavior without relying on subjective human
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Medical school is no joke. In fact, becoming a doctor requires completion of one of the world’s most rigorous and testing paths of any profession. A substantial percentage of medical students burn out, give up, or are plain miserable. Other students, like me, are the weirdos that actually enjoy the process. Here’s how I did
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Intuitive eating is a unique approach to weight management that does not require strict calorie counting or limiting intake of certain food groups. It aims to help people avoid binge eating and maintain their desired weight by building a healthier relationship with food. Nutritionists Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch introduced the eating plan in their 1995
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the coronavirus stories Medscape’s editors around the globe think you need to know about today. A messenger RNA vaccine for COVID-19 that was developed by Moderna, known as mRNA-1273, has elicited an immune response among all 45 people who
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Modern medicine has always been about advancement. From the earliest herbal remedies to the complexities of brain surgery, the ways in which we’re treated have steadily evolved. And now, medicine has become more personal. For the past 5 years, we’ve funded one of the world’s largest precision medicine clinical trials, helmed by Professor Gary Middleton
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If wearing a face mask leaves you feeling anxious, you’re not alone. We share tips on how you can feel calmer and in control whilst wearing a face mask Face masks. They’ve become a divisive debate over recent months, with neither side willing to give much leeway. While scientists and experts have been sharing their
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Ah, if it were only true, let alone this simple: drink water every 15 minutes, and tada! The novel coronavirus gets killed by acid in the stomach. Or, for those of us who love a hot bath, make the temperature even hotter so that the body temperature rises and kills the virus.  We are sorry, say
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Prostate cancers that are missed on multiparametric (mp)MRI are small and “not life-threatening,” according to an analysis of data from the Prostate MR Imaging Study (PROMIS). “Our work suggests that MRI scans of the prostate appear to deliver crucial information about a man’s risk of dying from prostate cancer, even before he has a biopsy,”
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A talk by Charles A. Czeisler, MD, PhD, FRCP, Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine and director, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School; chief, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Moderated by Freda C. Lewis-Hall, MD, DFAPA, executive vice president and chief medical officer, Pfizer, and member of the HMS Board of Fellows.
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This is a pre-surgical video which describes rotationplasty, who the procedure is appropriate for and possible complications. This video depicts the process of being fitted for a prosthesis and learning to use it. The patient describes her active and satisfying life after rotationplasty, her emotions and the process of adjusting to living with a prosthesis.
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Print this page CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 14, 2020– Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq:MRNA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced the publication of an interim analysis of the open-label Phase 1 study of mRNA-1273, its vaccine candidate against COVID-19, in The New
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Treatment for Molluscum Contagiosum Verrica Pharmaceuticals Receives Complete Response Letter from the FDA for its New Drug Application for VP-102 for the Treatment of Molluscum Contagiosum Print this page WEST CHESTER, Pa., July 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Verrica”) (Nasdaq: VRCA), a dermatology therapeutics company developing medications for viral skin diseases requiring medical interventions, today announced
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