With many sports beginning to return to elite action (June 2020) as lockdown eases, many amateur and intermediate exercisers are
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Obese kids with COVID-19 THREE TIMES more likely to need ventilators
Obese children hospitalized with coronavirus are THREE TIMES more likely to need ventilators, study finds Researchers looked at 50 coronavirus
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How to use your bathroom scale to find the right weight loss strategy
People who weigh themselves regularly are more successful at losing weight and keeping it off. But standing on a scale,
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Researchers find some hair greying is due to stress and thus can be reversed
A team of researchers at Columbia University, collaborating with an associate at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,
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Radiologists use deep learning to find signs of COVID-19 in chest X-rays
Johns Hopkins radiologists have found that a deep learning algorithm to detect tuberculosis in chest X-rays could be useful for
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Health insurance nondiscrimination rules linked to lower suicidality in gender minority patients
States that have adopted gender-minority nondiscrimination rules for private health insurance policies slowed an epidemic of mental illness, suicide attempts
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Researcher combats COVID-19 by developing new computational tools to analyze genetic data
Ali Rahnavard, an assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics and the Computational Biology Institute at George Washington University’s Milken Institute
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What to Do When You & Your Partner Have Dramatically Different Love Languages
How do you give love and feel love? It turns out that for personality type-obsessed folks (me, essentially), affectionate gestures
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Beyond the locker room: Coronavirus isolation is an opportunity to teach boys about toxic masculinity
“Boys being boys” is a tired narrative, but one that is still dominant in sport culture. The latest example: The
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Saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
Saliva is one of our biggest foes in the COVID-19 pandemic, because of its role in spreading the virus. But
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