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New book shows how dance and movement can re-position relationships between individualsFebruary 16, 2021 at 11:40 PM A NEW book explores how dance and movement can re-position relationships between individuals and the sites they live and work in and travel through.Tags: Health 13 people like this. Like New model predicts which patients will gain most from PSMA PET scanFebruary 16, 2021 at 11:34 PM A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center helps identify which patients with prostate cancer will benefit most from the use of prostate-specific membrane antigen PET imaging, PSMA PET, a novel imaging technique that recently was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Tags: Health, PSMA, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center 46 people like this. Like Study: Radioactive bone cement is a safer alternative for treating bone tumorsFebruary 16, 2021 at 11:24 PM A radioactive bone cement that's injected into bone to provide support and local irradiation is proving to be a safer alternative to conventional radiation therapy for bone tumors, according to a study led by University of California, Irvine researchers.Tags: Health, University of California Irvine 23 people like this. Like 3D bioprinting paves way for functional adult-sized tissues and organsFebruary 16, 2021 at 11:16 PM Research into 3D bioprinting has grown rapidly in recent years as scientists seek to re-create the structure and function of complex biological systems from human tissues to entire organs.Tags: Health 8 people like this. Like MRI scans reveal major abnormalities in the eyes of people with severe COVID-19February 16, 2021 at 11:05 PM Researchers using MRI have found significant abnormalities in the eyes of some people with severe COVID-19, according to a study published in the journal Radiology.Tags: Health 23 people like this. Like Nsp1 protein could provide new treatments for COVID-19February 16, 2021 at 10:56 PM A study that identifies how a coronavirus protein called Nsp1 blocks the activity of genes that promote viral replication provides hope for new COVID-19 treatments.Tags: Health, Nsp1 47 people like this. Like LAUSD has safety measures in place, but much work remains before return to campusFebruary 16, 2021 at 10:46 PM Long before public health officials announced this week that elementary schools in Los Angeles County can finally reopen because the county’s daily rate of new COVID-19 cases has fallen low enough to meet reopening standards, officials in the Los Angeles Unified School District had submitted its plan for bringing students back to campus to the state and county.
And it’s already prepared its schools for the eventual return of students and staff by purchasing personal protective equipment, install...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Sport, Soccer, Community, Lausd, Los Angeles County, Ferrer, Hollywood Park, LA County, Los Angeles Unified School District, United Teachers Los Angeles 22 people like this. Like Humidity created inside facemasks may help combat COVID-19, study findsFebruary 16, 2021 at 10:41 PM A new study, published in the journal Biophysical Journal by researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), showed that face masks increase the humidity in the air that the mask-wearers inhale. The level of moisture in inhaled air could be linked to lower levels of COVID-19 severity.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health NIH, Biophysical Journal 42 people like this. Like Australia politics live: Victoria Covid lockdown to end at midnight and PM faces more Brittany Higgins questionsFebruary 16, 2021 at 10:20 PM Daniel Andrews says some coronavirus restrictions remain; Turnbull says it’s ‘incredible’ Morrison did not know about rape allegations. Follow liveWarnings on privately run Australian quarantine centresAustralia’s Covid vaccine rollout: how will it happen and when can you get it?Melbourne hotspots, Victoria rules and restrictionsFollow our global coronavirus live blog 3.20am GMT Scott Morrison tells Rebekha Sharkie he has taken on calls for an independent process to review the review into cu...Tags: Health, Australia, Senate, Australia news, Australian politics, Victoria, Parliament, Scott Morrison, Daniel Andrews, Morrison, Turnbull, Sharkie, Mr Speaker, Indi, Rebekha Sharkie, Coronavirus 27 people like this. Like Pan-coronavirus vaccine needed to deal SARS-CoV-2 variantsFebruary 16, 2021 at 10:09 PM In an article, published on the JAMA Network and written by health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the authors discuss the need for a pan-coronavirus vaccine, which can protect against most or all variants of SARS-CoV-2.Tags: Health, Anthony Fauci 30 people like this. Like Virus transmission by dental tools and prevention by antiviral agentFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:47 PM Researchers at the University of Ljubljana have demonstrated how a virus can spread by droplets during ultrasonic scaler (USS) operation and how this spread can be mitigated by merely substituting the irrigant with clinical virucidal agents, namely sodium hypochlorite and EOW (Electrolyzed Oxidizing Water).Tags: Health, University of Ljubljana 35 people like this. Like Shut Down And Shut In: Some Mental Health Impacts May Linger Long-TermFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:28 PM cbsoptanon.onScriptsReady(function(cmp){cmp.ot.targetingAllowed(function(a){if(a) AnvatoPlayer("p4").init({"mcp":"cbs","width":"100%","height":"100%","video":"5307810","autoplay":false,"accessKey":"5VD6Eyd6djewbCmNwBFnsJj17YAvGRwl","accessControl":{"preview":false},"pInstance":"p4","plugins":{"heartbeat":{"account":"cbslocal-global-unified","publisherId":"cbslocal","jobId":"sc_va","marketingCloudId":"[email protected]","trackingServer":"cbsdigitalmedia.hb.omtrdc.net","customTrack...Tags: News, Cdc, Local, Seen On, Sacramento, Mental Health, Cbs, Bain, Sims, Jane, David Bain, UC Davis Health, Coronavirus, Yellowlees, Peter Yellowlees, Savannah Sims 31 people like this. Like Hydrogel dressings are better at promoting wound healingFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:23 PM The widespread use of high-speed and high-energy weapons in modern warfare has led to an increasing incidence of explosive injuries. For such wounds as well as those incurred in disasters and accidents, severe hemorrhage is the leading cause of death.Tags: Health Researchers discover the role of a gene involved in cardiac rhythmFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:18 PM Researchers have used the zebrafish (Danio rerio) to identify the role of a gene involved in cardiac rhythm, which could help explain the fundamentals of what it takes to make a human heartbeat.Tags: Health 30 people like this. Like Changes to gut microbiome help melanoma patients respond to immunotherapyFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:15 PM Statistical modeling developed by Oregon State University researchers has confirmed that changes to melanoma patients' gut microbiome led them to respond to a type of treatment capable of providing long-term benefit.Tags: Health, Oregon State University 2 people like this. Like Changes to gut microbiome helps melanoma patients respond to immunotherapyFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:15 PM Statistical modeling developed by Oregon State University researchers has confirmed that changes to melanoma patients' gut microbiome led them to respond to a type of treatment capable of providing long-term benefit.Tags: Health, Oregon State University 25 people like this. Like Detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant in New YorkFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:11 PM Researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have developed a software tool called "Variant Database" that has detected an emerging lineage of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolates in New York.Tags: Health, New York, Pasadena, California Institute of Technology 3 people like this. Like Genetic variant inherited from Neanderthals associated with protection against severe COVID-19February 16, 2021 at 9:11 PM SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, impacts people in different ways after infection. Some experience only mild or no symptoms at all while others become sick enough to require hospitalization and may develop respiratory failure and die.Tags: Health 27 people like this. Like Study explores the effects of alcohol and cannabis on aggression-linked brain circuitry in teensFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:07 PM Alcohol and cannabis use during adolescence is a well-known risk factor for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and cannabis use disorder (CUD) during adulthood.Tags: Health 4 people like this. Like Noninvasive brain stimulation restores behavioral flexibility in cocaine-exposed ratsFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:02 PM A major impediment to treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) is a loss of behavioral flexibility, whereby one's judgment is impaired such that their actions continuously result in negative consequences.Tags: Health 49 people like this. Like Stability and pathogenicity of MERS coronavirus varies across different viral strainsFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:51 PM An international team of researchers has conducted a study suggesting that individual variation across different strains of betacoronaviruses can alter their stability and pathogenicity profiles.Tags: Health 33 people like this. Like Mice study suggests novel approach to treat a type of common gliomaFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:42 PM Gliomas are common brain tumors that comprise about one third of all cancers of the nervous system. In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers tested a novel combination treatment approach on mice with tumors with characteristics similar to human astrocytomas--a type of slow-growing glioma--and found tumor regression in 60 percent of the mice treated.Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health 31 people like this. Like Gift to Yale launches new research enterprise to study human cognitionFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:35 PM Yale University today announced that a historic philanthropic gift will launch an ambitious new research enterprise devoted to the study of human cognition.Tags: Health, Yale, Yale University 20 people like this. Like New model to better predict risk of abdominal aortic aneurysmsFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:30 PM An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) can be a ticking time bomb if undiscovered in time. However, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are developing a new model to better predict at-risk patients. And the tools they are using apply mechanical testing to the human body - which is itself a complex machine.Tags: Health, University of Pittsburgh 33 people like this. Like Researchers identify key genetic changes in interstitial kidney tissue of people with diabetesFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:18 PM Researchers from Indiana University have identified key genetic changes in the interstitial kidney tissue of people with diabetes, a discovery that signifies the potential for a revolutionary new genetic approach to the treatment of kidney disease.Tags: Health, Indiana University 44 people like this. Like Photos: Humans welcomed back to L.A. ZooFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:21 PM Meerkats watching visitors at the zoo on Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Zoo reopened to the public today, February 16, 2021, with visitors being encouraged to stay six feet or “a zebra apart” — to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Zoo officials have modified the zoo experience to make it safer for guests and conform to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s safety protocols. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The Los Angeles Zoo reopened to the publi...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Sport, Things To Do, Soccer, Community, Los Angeles Zoo, LA County, LA Zoo, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles Daily News, Jace 73 people like this. Like Study finds high COVID-19 infection rates in pregnant womenFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:05 PM The COVID-19 infection rate among pregnant women was estimated to be 70% higher than in similarly aged adults in Washington state, according to a new study published today in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.Tags: Health, Washington, COVID 16 people like this. Like For a family devastated by COVID-19, Mariachi serenade provides a moment of hopeFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:17 PM Patty Trejo wanted some way to let her husband, Joe Trejo, know that she’s with him even as he breathes through a ventilator.
So she turned to music. Trejo hired a mariachi band to serenade him outside Providence St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton. And on Monday, Feb. 15, inside his room in the hospital’s intensive care unit, their song “La Mano de Dios” (The Hand of God) was streamed live via a cell phone.
Joe Trejo, in a medically induced coma as he struggles with COVID-19, heard the song, ...Tags: Health, News, Education, Sport, Things To Do, Soccer, Local News, Facetime, Chris, Joe, Joseph, Anaheim, Patty, Matt, Trejo, Fullerton 138 people like this. Like Biodegradable microcapsules loaded with nerve growth factor can guide neuronal developmentFebruary 16, 2021 at 7:59 PM Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have demonstrated that nanoengineered biodegradable microcapsules can guide the development of hippocampal neurons in an in vitro experiment.Tags: Health, Skoltech 1 people like this. Like Study reveals how people respond to financial and health uncertaintiesFebruary 16, 2021 at 7:52 PM A recent qualitative study sheds light on how people cope with health and financial challenges, highlighting the important role that communication plays in these coping strategies.Tags: Health 25 people like this. Like |
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