‘Chasing the virus’: How India’s largest slum beat back a pandemic
When coronavirus claimed its first victim in India’s largest slum in April, many feared the disease would turn its narrow,
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A platform of vaccine target recommendations for COVID-19
As genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the novel pneumonia (COVID-19), are similar to those of the 2003 SARS
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Free-range kids: Why a child’s freedom to travel and play without adult supervision matters
The recently released 2020 ParticipACTION Report Card revealed that Canadian children scored a D+ for “daily physical activity,” an F
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Germany’s new local lockdown is a warning, not a disaster
German authorities have had to take the difficult decision of reimposing a pandemic lockdown in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
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African nations certified free of wild polio virus, a first in history
The World Health Organization is set to declare several African nations free of wild polio, making the continent free of
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A novel radioisotope therapy for children with neuroblastoma
Researchers from Kanazawa University retrospectively analyzed children with refractory or relapsed high-risk neuroblastoma who were treated with high-dose 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine at
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Feeling hopeless? There are things you can do to create and maintain hope in a post-coronavirus world
Today is a far cry from what we hoped for and expected from 2020. After Australia’s disastrous summer of bushfires,
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COVID-19 as a possible cause of Diabetes? – Naturopathy Naturopathy Specialist Portal
COVID-19 is a new risk factor for Diabetes? COVID-19 seems to stand in different ways with Diabetes. According to a
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A compound unlike any other
A compound discovered in the gills of wood-eating clams could be the solution to a group of parasites responsible for
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‘Iso,’ a deadly new synthetic opioid, has hit American streets
(HealthDay)—A new synthetic opioid as powerful as fentanyl is causing overdose deaths at an ever-increasing rate, experts warn. What’s worse,
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