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Scientists claim antibiotics already on the market can treat coronavirus
Superdelegates Signal They Won't Back Bernie Sanders in a Contested Convention: 'Overwhelming Opposition'
Buzzfeed Smear Falsely Accuses Trump and Limbaugh of Saying Deep State Created Coronavirus
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Sentenced to Three Years in Federal Prison for Corruption and Fraud…
Kenyans Protest China Flights: 'Inviting Coronavirus with a Bouquet of Flowers'
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Conservative Firing Line | 2/27/2020 | Staff
The Democrats and the Mainstream Media seem almost giddy at the possibility of the coronavirus making Trump look bad. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020. Used with permission. More here.
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NewsBusters | 2/27/2020 | Staff
Hollywood knows how to come up with ticket-selling doomsday scenarios and their imagined outcome of the coronavirus is no less devastating than the events of Independence Day.
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livescience.com | 2/26/2020 | Cari Nierenberg
Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by bacteria in the Legionella genus. When Legionella bacteria infect the lungs, the bugs can cause two different illnesses: a milder...
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Express.co.uk | 2/27/2020 | Staff
She said: “Bats in many regions have been pushed out of their environments, for example, as a result of deforestation, and have begun to use other places and conditions built by humans.
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ScienceDaily | 2/26/2020 | StaffNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an accumulation of excess fat in the liver of people who consume little or no alcohol. It is a common condition in obese individuals or people with...
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Business Insider | 3/7/2011 | David Choi
A US soldier stationed in South Korea "tested positive" for the coronavirus, the military said in a statement on Wednesday morning. The unnamed soldier, a 23-year-old male, is in self-quarantine at...
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Mail Online | 2/25/2020 | Connor Boyd Health Reporter For Mailonline
Playing table tennis may slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, research suggests. Five hours' of playing time a week reduced tremors, limb rigidity, slowness of movement and balance for at least...
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BBC News Pidgin | 2/25/2020 | Staff
Since December 2019 wen di Novel Coronavirus outbreak bin start for Wuhan, China, so far e don claim di lives of ova 2,700 pipo across di world. As medical researcher and goment officials all ova di...
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phys.org | 5/10/2018 | Staff
The Neolithic revolution, and the corresponding transition to agricultural and pastoralist lifestyles, represents one of the greatest cultural shifts in human history, and it has long been...
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ScienceDaily | 2/24/2020 | StaffNow, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and four collaborating medical institutions have developed what they say is a novel means of improving how TB can be treated.
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Mail Online | 2/23/2020 | Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com
After a lifetime of navigating a number of mental and physical health challenges, Lena Dunham revealed her heart-wrenching struggle with hair loss in an Instagram post on Saturday afternoon.
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TMZ | 2/23/2020 | Staff
Dan Gasby announced her death, saying, "It is with great sadness that my daughter Dana and I announce the passing of my wife, Barbara Elaine Smith." He says she passed peacefully at 10:50 PM...
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CNBC | 2/22/2020 | Staff
Localized outbreaks of the new coronavirus outside of China are fueling concerns among infectious disease experts and scientists that the virus is spreading too quickly and may be past the point of...
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Business Insider | 2/21/2020 | Paulina Cachero
A 29-year-old Chinese doctor named Peng Yinhua planned to marry his fiancée during the Lunar New Year holiday. Yinhua postponed the wedding to help treat coronavirus in the country, but he just died...
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Business Insider | 2/22/2020 | Aria Bendix
Chinese health officials report that the majority of cases of the new coronavirus are mild, but around 20% of patients have either severe cases of disease or become critically ill.
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Business Insider | 2/21/2020 | Aylin Woodward
The coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China, has killed at least 2,250 people and infected more than 76,000. Research from a group of Chinese scientists suggests the virus' incubation...
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phys.org | 2/14/2020 | Staff
In a study published in Scientific Reports, a team of international researchers led by University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa postdoctoral fellow Jamie Caldwell used a statistical technique typically...
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Express.co.uk | 2/21/2020 | Staff
Researchers at Johns Hopkins university studied 14 plant-based extracts and compared their effectiveness against doxycycline and cefuroxime, two antibiotics used to treat Lyme disease.
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Mail Online | 2/21/2020 | Chris Dyer For Mailonline
Japanese knotweed may be more effective than antibiotics at tackling Lyme disease, new study has found. The tick-born infection that can cause meningitis and face paralysis currently sees 365,000...
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phys.org | 2/18/2020 | Staff
Researchers can uncover how proteins interact with other proteins with far greater sensitivity and in a more natural context than conventional methods, thanks to an analytic technique developed by a...
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ScienceDaily | 2/20/2020 | StaffThey have discovered that the molecule TLR2, which recognises chemical patterns associated with infection in the body, also seems to play an important role in the development of retinal degeneration.
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phys.org | 1/16/2020 | Staff
Researchers at the University of Toronto Engineering have developed a tiny "heater"—about the size of a pill—that could allow resource-limited regions around the world to test for infectious...
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phys.org | 2/20/2020 | Staff
While the genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, developed in 2012, cuts a mutation out of a gene and replaces it with a gene-piece, a newer type of CRISPR, called base-editing, can repair a mutation...
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phys.org | 7/1/2019 | Staff
A new study from University of Michigan biologists presents the first genetic evidence of resistance in some bats to white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungal disease that has decimated some North...
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phys.org | 2/17/2020 | Staff
DNA testing kits for humans and their pets are a growing business. The draw for consumers ranges from understanding why their dog looks like a Labrador but acts like a German Shepherd, or what...
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phys.org | 10/29/2014 | Staff
People living in Balkan farming villages along the Danube River have long suffered from a unique type of kidney disease known as Balkan endemic nephropathy. Recently, scientists linked the disorder...
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WSJ | 2/19/2020 | Suryatapa Bhattacharya
TOKYO—A Kobe University doctor touched off a furor with a firsthand account of a virus-stricken cruise ship in which he said the protections against infection were so weak he was scared he would get...
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Express.co.uk | 2/19/2020 | Staff
International horse and donkey charity Brooke said in a statement: “The medicine, which is not proven to have any positive effect in tackling the virus, is made from gelatine found within donkey...
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Zero Hedge | 2/18/2020 | Staff
This has been what looks like an awfully cheap lesson. And few have any interest in learning from it. Scan down the day’s headlines and there is no shortage of items about the ill-effects on...
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Mail Online | 2/17/2020 | Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Household cleaning products could be linked to childhood asthma, research published today suggests. A study of 2,000 newborns found those whose parents most frequently used items such as dishwashing...
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Business Insider | 2/16/2020 | Erin Heger
There are many different types of heart disease but they all refer to some type of condition that damages your heart. Many heart diseases have similar root causes including high blood pressure, high...
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ScienceDaily | 2/14/2020 | StaffIn a small study of 44 peripheral artery disease patients over age 60, those who drank a beverage containing flavanol-rich cocoa three times a day for six months were able to walk up to 42.
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ScienceDaily | 2/14/2020 | StaffThe outcome is important, explained Joshua Lambert, associate professor of food science, because nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a significant global health problem that is expected to worsen.
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ScienceDaily | 2/13/2020 | StaffThe new report from NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. MERS-CoV is closely related to the 2019 novel...
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Business Insider | 2/15/2020 | Erin Heger
Ischemic heart disease is the most common type of heart disease and is caused by narrowed heart arteries. The most common symptom is chest discomfort that feels like squeezing and gets worse with...
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STAT | 2/14/2020 | Staff
At least 550,000 cases. Maybe 4.4 million. Or something in between. Like weather forecasters, researchers who use mathematical equations to project how bad a disease outbreak might become are used...
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ScienceDaily | 2/13/2020 | StaffFor the first time, a team led by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have pinpointed individual cells that cause autoimmune disease from patient samples.
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The Federalist | 2/14/2020 | Christopher Jacobs
The past several weeks have seen two trends with important implications for health policy: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s burst of momentum following strong political showings in both Iowa and New...
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ScienceDaily | 2/13/2020 | StaffAnd while travel bans are frequently used to stop the spread of an emerging infectious disease, a new University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University study of published research found that the...
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Breitbart | 2/13/2020 | Staff
Tory MP Ben Bradley has admonished “woke” commentators who harp on the subject of “white male privilege” by inviting them to speak to white working-class men whose lives have been far from easy.
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www.oann.com | 2/13/2020 | StaffLONDON (Reuters) – The rise of “fake news” – including misinformation and inaccurate advice on social media – could make disease outbreaks such as the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic currently...
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ScienceDaily | 2/13/2020 | StaffMountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are an endangered species of great ape found only in eastern Africa. Over 40% of the 1,059 mountain gorillas that remain on the planet today reside in...
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Mail Online | 6/13/2015 | Leigh Mcmanus For Mailonline
Identical baby twins are the first in Britain to both be diagnosed with an incurable brain disease - the same which killed Coleen Rooney's sister in 2013, aged 14.
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phys.org | 10/11/2017 | Staff
It has long been the dream of infectious disease researchers around the world to create a safe, non-toxic way to kill mosquitoes. University of New Mexico scientists may have found a way to do just...
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Business Insider | 2/11/2020 | Sarah Al-Arshani
Crew members are scared they're not being protected enough from the novel coronavirus, formally named COVID-19, on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, multiple media outlets reported.
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Science | AAAS | 2/12/2020 | Staff
“COVID-19. I’ll spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine. COVID-19.” That’s how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), yesterday introduced the agency’s official name...
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ScienceDaily | 2/10/2020 | StaffMotor neuron disease is a degenerative condition which destroys the nerve cells (motor neurons) in the brain and spinal cord, which control movement, speech, swallowing and breathing.
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ScienceDaily | 2/11/2020 | StaffStudies have shown the enormous benefits of exercise in many disorders including neurodegenerative diseases, but the reasons are not always clear. "Exercise seems to protect against the motor...
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Wired | 2/11/2020 | Adam Rogers
Integrated Systems Europe is the biggest audio-video trade show in the world, and this year’s iteration, happening right now in Amsterdam, was going pretty well for Norm Carson.
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CNET | 2/11/2020 | Staff
The outbreak started at the end of December in Wuhan, China. The novel coronavirus, first discovered in the city of Wuhan, China, and reported to the World Health Organization on Dec.
Retired archbishop disciplined after calling Pope Francis a ‘heretic’ Wloclawek, Poland, Feb 27, 2020 / 07:00 pm (CNA).
Not Just Passing Time “To handle issues of eternal life and death as if we were discussing the weather is inexcusable.
Mike Pence welcomes pro-life Democrats, says they ‘have a home’ in Republican Party Facebook Twitter Email Print Menu Comment...
Hysteria over Religion Freedom Legislation in Australia Australia’s culture wars have hit peak hysteria with concerns that a...
Coronavirus and the Human Death Rate of 100% - "Knowing it all ends soon, what should I do today?" The United States and people...
The Belles of St. Dismas: Short movie reviews in the order in which I saw them. Dead of Night: A 1945 British horror...
Pinterest adds DoorDash exec and Caviar lead Gokul Rajaram to its board Pinterest is bringing on a new board member. The...
'Surfing attack' hacks Siri, Google with ultrasonic waves Attacks on cell phones aren't new, and researchers have previously shown...
Sony Announces Its 2020 Xperia Smartphone Lineup Sony has officially announced the latest range of Xperia smartphones for 2020.
Andreessen Horowitz has backed Run The World, a startup with a timely offering: live online events Every day, there’s another...
‘Astounding new finds’ suggest ancient empire may be hiding in plain sight SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO—On 16 January 378 C.E.
Meet the Single Musicians Looking for Love on The Bachelor Presents: Listen To Your Heart The Bachelor's not even close to cold...
Stolen Hearse with Body Inside Found After Cop Chase Ends in Crash Yeah, someone boarded the Hell Express and jacked a black...
‘Killed My Wife’ and ‘Paper Flower’ go to Blue Fox for North America (exclusive) US-based global sales and domestic...
Kobe Bryant's Big Sister Gets Tribute Tattoo for Kobe and Gianna In the past few weeks, a bunch of people who knew Kobe and...
Legacies' Film-Noir Episode Photos Are Simply Show-Stopping Legacies has pulled off some really cool episodes this season, but...
Hans Zimmer Created a New Major League Soccer Theme, and Yes, it Rocks The ever-prolific Hans Zimmer took some time off from...
Penguin Attacks Man! A bold penguin takes this man by surprise when he approaches the animal. The penguin rushes at him making...
Sheep Plays in Tire Swing! This sheep might have ended up in this tire swing by mistake, but she is clearing having a great...
Kitesurfer Launches Off Balcony, Just Making the Water! This kitesurfer is living dangerously, launching his kite from a...
Tiny Fish Trapped in Water Droplet! It isn't as uncommon as you might imagine for small fish to become trapped in drops of...
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