The most dangerous route to an infection with SARS-CoV-2 is via the air: For example, when infected persons sneeze or cough, they catapult relatively large droplets which, however, sink to the ground within a radius of two meters. Important are also aerosols, much smaller droplets, which we emit when speaking or breathing. Studies show that
Kuwaiti toddler born with benign tumor between her eyes that grew to partially block her vision undergoes life-changing surgery in the US Noor Nunez, one, from Kuwait, was born with a hemangioma, a benign tumor made up of blood vessels that gather under skin When she was an infant, it was merely a small scratch but,
An article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) describes a new pathway in the central nervous system to expel waste substances from the brain through the creation of corpora amylacea (CA), aggregates formed by glucose polymers amassing waste products. The study, which opens new views on the clinical practice regarding neurodegenerative
Indian doctors remove a 40lb tumour the size of a BEACH BALL from a 38-year-old woman’s ovary ‘after she went to hospital struggling to breathe’ Kavita Kalam had been suffering from severe stomach pain for seven months She was taken to hospital when she was struggling to breathe, local reports say The tumour could have
We are crying out for diversity when it comes to images of the female body on mainstream platforms. All too often we only see one kind of woman – slim, young, able-bodied, usually white – in ad campaigns, movies and magazines, and it is damaging women’s self-esteem. A recent Sport England study found that 75%
In her newest Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper pops a cyst she compares to a macadamia nut. The cyst is actually a pilar cyst, which is typically found on the head or scalp and is filled with keratin. Dr. Pimple Popper doesn’t cut the cyst open in this one, but she does completely remove it
How do you remove a magnet stuck in a 9-year-old girl’s lung? Doctors settled on the novel method of using a stronger magnet to slide it out! A girl in Mangalore, India, went to hospital with an inch-long magnet in her lung She had swallowed the small piece of metal while playing with her sister
My kids really loved the St Kilda Adventure Playground. Then management started taking things away. We used to fly down the concrete ramp on a billy cart and bang into a wall of tyres at the end. The ramp’s still there, but the cart is gone. Last October the flying fox bit the dust too,
(HealthDay)—Very low doses of hyaluronidase can remove hyaluronic acid filler nodules, but more rapid resolution is seen with slightly higher doses, according to a study published online April 25 in JAMA Dermatology. Murad Alam, M.D., from Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues conducted a randomized clinical trial involving nine healthy women to examine the effectiveness
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