Month: January 2021

Use these tips and nutritional information when thinking about serving sizes. Paige Dietz is a student dietetics volunteer at the Penn Abramson Cancer Center. She is currently working towards her second degree in nutrition at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. In 2013, Paige obtained her BBA in marketing at LIM College in New York,
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Getting a mastectomy during breast cancer treatment is a very life-changing and stressful thing, often made more concerning when faced with what to do next. While many opt for reconstruction, a new study finds that women are increasingly becoming happy with “going flat.” The University of California Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center surveyed 931
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Harvard Medical School researchers have improved the design of tiny nanodiscs—synthetic models of cell membranes used to study proteins that control what enters and leaves a cell. The enhancements provide an unprecedented view of how viruses infect cells. Read the full story at hms.harvard.edu/news/building-better-nanodiscs Like Harvard Medical School on Facebook: https://goo.gl/4dwXyZ Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/GbrmQM
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Careful with that bag of salad! Dole Vegetables Inc. has announced a voluntary recall of one salad kit product due to possible contamination with an allergen. The product affected, the Sesame Asian Chopped Salad Kit. includes a topping kit that contains traces of egg. The topping kit was intended for another salad kit. No other salad kits have been affected.   
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(Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to boost the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, including by spending $20 billion to create mass vaccination centers, should help speed up putting shots into the arms of millions of Americans, experts and officials told Reuters. The Biden administration on Thursday revealed a nearly $2 trillion proposal to address the economic
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A December recall alert for select Sportmix pet food has been expanded to cover more products. Contamination from aflatoxins, toxic substances that come from a mold called Aspergillus flavus, is already believed to have caused the deaths of 70 or more pets. The Recall The recall covers all Sportmix dog and cat pet food products
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Section of human colon showing sausage-shaped crypts. Image courtesy of Winton lab.  This week, NHS England began to inform people that one of the bowel screening tests – bowel scope – will no longer be a part of the bowel screening programme in England. The test, which uses a thin, flexible tube with a small
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This content originally appeared on Beyond Type 1. Republished with permission. By Bonnie O’Neil Nights are the most draining of all. With the weight of our daily work, parental responsibility, and type 1 diabetes (T1D) caregiving still heavy on our shoulders, at day’s end we long to lay our burden down, retreat to the comfort
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HARP), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing a novel class of T cell engagers, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation for HPN217 for the treatment of multiple myeloma. HPN217, a tri-specific T cell activating recombinant protein construct (TriTAC®) targets
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Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden told CNBC on Thursday he believes making so-called Covid vaccine passports mandatory may be ill-advised because it could deter Americans from wanting to receive the shot. “I think a vaccination certificate is something that you should have the right to have but not be
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Researchers in Germany and Belgium have conducted a survey demonstrating some of the adverse effects the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had on people’s eating habits. Overall, the study, which included almost 1,000 participants, showed that food consumption had increased, along with the purchase of convenience foods such as ready-made meals and canned foods
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You stoop to pick up a bag of groceries, but a sudden noise makes you turn your head. And then you feel stabbing pain. It can be a simple gesture like bending, or lifting something heavy that can bring that pain on. Neck and back problems are common; they fall into the superfamily of musculoskeletal
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Americans who get vaccinated against COVID-19, and use a digital health “passport” to prove it, may have an easier time traveling this year and being admitted to things like concerts, sporting events, and museums. With tourism and other economic sectors largely
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A breast cancer cell. Credit: LRI EM Unit. 25 years ago, a team of our scientists were celebrating. Their risky strategy had paid off. “You look back and you do wonder about how we decided to do this, and basically it was because we believed that it was better to do high-risk research that potentially
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Glen J. Golden, Colorado State University Editor’s note: As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, scientists are analyzing new ways to track it. One promising approach is training dogs to detect people who are infected by smelling samples of human urine or sweat. Research scientist Glen Golden, who has trained dogs and ferrets to detect avian
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The combination of naltrexone and bupropion results in a response rate almost six times greater than with placebo in patients with moderate or severe methamphetamine use disorder, results of a new randomized trial suggest. “For the first time, there’s hope for patients with methamphetamine use disorder who want to change, who want to stop using
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Researchers evaluating whether an investigational oral drug, vadadustat, can help prevent acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in COVID-19 patients were awarded $5.1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to expand the Phase II clinical trial at The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonQ (UTHealth). Vadadustat is an investigational oral
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