This image shows the main protease of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Mpro, and two strands of a human protein, called NEMO. One NEMO strand (blue) has been cut by Mpro, and the other NEMO strand (red) is being cut by Mpro. Without NEMO, an immune system is slower to respond to increased viral load or new …
According to a new study from Northwestern Medicine, neurons in an area of the brain responsible for memory were significantly larger in SuperAgers compared to their average cognitive peers. Post-mortem brains of SuperAgers reveal significantly larger neurons in the memory region. SuperAger neurons are even larger than those of individuals 20-30 years younger These neurons …
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You don’t have to experience direct, deliberate abuse to experience trauma. There are lawyers who experience vicarious trauma working on difficult cases and healthcare workers who burn out after being overloaded with cases. Recent events in the news, such as the COVID-19 outbreak and former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric, can also traumatize people even …
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According to our recent survey results, more than half of you sleep with your phone in bed with you at least some of the time. Among those who answered “No”, some still indicated that they left their phone on a bedside table near or next to the bed. Well, I’m sorry to be the bearer …
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strike two But amid the rush to respond to monkeypox, a new threat has emerged. On July 18, Bryon Backenson, director of the department’s Office of Communicable Diseases, received a call from Kirsten St. George, director of virology and head of the viral diseases lab at the Wadsworth Center, the state’s public health lab. . …
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strike two But amid the rush to respond to monkeypox, a new threat has emerged. On July 18, Bryon Backenson, director of the department’s Office of Communicable Diseases, received a call from Kirsten St. George, director of virology and head of the viral diseases lab at the Wadsworth Center, the state’s public health lab. . …
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Dr. Erika Kube The physician assistant I worked with in the emergency department had gone to see a patient with a complaint of itching and told me something was wrong. Brian had been having issues with itching for several weeks and neither Benadryl nor a prescription for steroids from his family doctor had helped. He …
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Two sisters who were diagnosed with breast cancer six weeks apart have revealed how they worked together to beat the disease. Aisling, 50, and Margaret Cunningham, 46, from Brisbane received the heartbreaking news in August 2020. Margaret was standing in front of the mirror when she noticed that one of her breasts looked very different …
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Two sisters who were diagnosed with breast cancer six weeks apart have revealed how they worked together to beat the disease. Aisling, 50, and Margaret Cunningham, 46, from Brisbane received the heartbreaking news in August 2020. Margaret was standing in front of the mirror when she noticed that one of her breasts looked very different …
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Hunting fungi in the human body may offer a whole new method of early cancer detection, Israeli scientists suggest in new peer-reviewed research. Together with colleagues in the United States, they studied the tumors of 17,000 cancer patients to document, for the first time, which fungi live in the tissues. There has been very little …
