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The head of the European Commission proposed Monday that member states ban non-essential travel into the bloc—even as more EU capitals close their borders to slow the coronavirus epidemic. Brussels has struggled to keep up
Safe and sound. Carrie Underwood’s husband, Mike Fisher, and their two sons are OK after Nashville’s Tuesday, March 3, tornado. “[My husband] said he had to go upstairs at, like, 2 a.m. and grab the
Zebrafish, besides being popular in aquariums, make good stand-ins for studying human diseases. They share about 70 percent of their genes with humans, and can be studied at a mass scale, enabling scientists to test
By following a group of newly diagnosed patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) for a decade or more, researchers have been able to identify several factors never before reported that appear to be associated with higher
Is there anything better than bath time, and helping your sweet little one splash around in a tub full of bubbles? One thing might come close: wrapping your newly clean kiddo in a fresh, soft
Dr. Saturnina Clemente pulls up to the small clinic in the impoverished Caucaguita neighborhood armed with one of Venezuela’s most sought-after commodities: Hormonal implants to prevent pregnancy. In a country where contraceptives are in short
Agonising kidney stones could be a thing of the past as a high tech laser can blast a 5cm lump into dust during a single treatment Existing treatments can take two or three sessions which
A rare, short-lived population of immune cells in the bloodstream may serve as ‘periscopes’ to monitor immune status via lymph nodes deep inside the body, according to researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at
Lying inside a scanner, the patient watched as pictures appeared one by one: A bicycle. A cupcake. Heroin. Outside, researchers tracked her brain’s reactions to the surprise sight of the drug she’d fought to kick.
When a 41-year-old woman reported to the emergency room because of sudden pain in her groin, doctors discovered a rare condition that required surgery right away: a femoral hernia that contained an “incarcerated ovary.” The