DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Is intermittent fasting for weight loss safe? What are the risks of short-term diets that are very
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Fatal overproduction of antibodies
Bone marrow plasma cells produce antibodies. These comprise two long and two short protein chains. The pathological proliferation of plasma
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Nearly three quarters of alcohol not displaying UK drinking guidelines
Revealed: Nearly three quarters of alcohol on UK shelves is being displayed without Government’s safe drinking limits – four years
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Homeless at ‘double risk’ of getting, spreading coronavirus
They often don’t have places to wash their hands, struggle with health problems and crowd together in grimy camps. That’s
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Japan PM calls for nationwide closure of schools over virus
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Thursday on schools to close nationwide from March 2 for
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Getting Quality Autism Therapy From Thousands of Miles Away
TUESDAY, Feb. 25, 2020 — By the time he was 7 months old, John Michael Crawford had been diagnosed with
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Live Science podcast "Life’s Little Mysteries" 6: Mysteries of eating and drinking
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at some of the mysteries surrounding a couple
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CDC: 19.2 percent of unpaid caregivers in fair, poor health
(HealthDay)—Almost 20 percent of informal caregivers in the United States report being in fair or poor health, with considerable variation
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Naming the new coronavirus: Why taking Wuhan out of the picture matters
Stop calling the novel coronavirus outbreak the “Wuhan coronavirus,” and start getting comfortable with “COVID-19.” That’s the World Health Organization’s
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Out-of-context photos are a powerful low-tech form of misinformation
When you think of visual misinformation, maybe you think of deepfakes—videos that appear real but have actually been created using
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