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What smokers should know about COVID-19
By Vivien WilliamsEveryone is at risk of contracting COVID-19. The illness is particularly dangerous for people with underlying conditions, such as heart or lung disease. Dr. Neal Patel, a Mayo Clinic pulmonologist and critical care medicine specialist, says people who smoke tobacco products also may be at increased risk of becoming very sick if they contract the virus."Smoking makes you more susceptible to COVID-19, because it destroys some of your lung's natural defense mechanisms," says Dr. Patel. "Vaping may do the same thing."A recent blog published by the National Institutes of Health explains that initial reviews of cases of COVID-19 in China show that smokers may have developed more severe disease than nonsmokers.More research is needed to determine what...
April 17, 2020

What smokers should know about COVID-19

'Parasite' cast and crew including Cho Yeo-jeong, Park So-dam, Choi Woo-shik, Kang-Ho Song,Yang Jin-mo, Jin Won Han, Kwak Sin-ae, Ha-jun Lee, Yang-kwon Moon, Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, Bong Joon-ho, and Sun-kyun Lee accept the Best Picture award onstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on Sunday. — AFP
'Parasite' makes Oscars history with stunning best picture win
LOS ANGELES — South Korean black comedy "Parasite" made movie history at the Oscars on Sunday, becoming the first non-English-language film to win the best picture award -- Hollywood's biggest prize of all.A genre-defying thriller about a poor family infiltrating a wealthy household, "Parasite" won four awards, stunning the pundits who believed the Academy would never crown a subtitled Asian movie."It's such a great honor. I feel like I'll wake up to find it's all a dream. It all feels very surreal," a jubilant Bong told journalists backstage, calling the night "crazy.""Parasite" also won the Oscar for best international feature, and became the first Asian film to scoop best original screenplay."I thought I was done...
February 10, 2020

'Parasite' makes Oscars history with stunning best picture win

In recent years doctors have turned to a new treatment for cancer, immunotherapy, which works by leveraging the body's own immune system to fight tumors — AFP
Scientists find powerhouses that fight tumors from within
TOKYO — Lurking deep inside some tumors are "factories" full of immune cells that help the body fight a rearguard action against cancer and are key to helping some patients recover, new research shows.In recent years doctors have turned to a new treatment for cancer, immunotherapy, which works by leveraging the body's own immune system to fight tumors.The technique has largely focused on white blood cells called T-cells, which are "trained" to recognize and attack cancer cells.But the innovative treatment only works well for around 20 percent of patients, and researchers have been trying to understand why some people respond better than others.Three papers published on Thursday in the journal Nature point the way, identifying a key formation inside some tumors:...
January 15, 2020

Scientists find powerhouses that fight tumors from within

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, right, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend a round-table discussion on gender equality with The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust (QCT) and One Young World at Windsor Castle in Windsor in this Oct. 25, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Prince Harry's wife Meghan returns to Canada amid royal storm
LONDON — Prince Harry's wife Meghan has returned to Canada following the couple's bombshell announcement that they were quitting their frontline royal duties, it emerged Friday, as the monarch held urgent talks with her family to resolve the crisis.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent an extended Christmas holiday in Canada with their son before returning to break the news this week that they would "step back" from their royal roles.The Daily Mail newspaper reported that Meghan flew back on Thursday, having never intended to be in Britain long, and "may stay there for the foreseeable future.""I can confirm reports that the duchess is in Canada," the couple's spokeswoman said, without confirming the Mail's report that Harry was likely to join...
January 11, 2020

Prince Harry's wife Meghan returns to Canada amid royal storm

Maren and Ricardo Chamorro pose with their children (from L-R) Johanna, Johan and Thomas and the new family dog Henry during an interview with AFP at their home in McLean, Virginia, Dec. 26, 2019. — AFP
The 'supercells' that cured an infant's grave genetic illness
MCLEAN, United States — When a person's immune system is impaired by a genetic disease, a bone-marrow transplant can be a powerful therapeutic tool, but with a major downside: during the first few months the recipient's defenses against viruses are severely weakened. The slightest infection can lead to a hospital trip.A still-experimental type of treatment known as T-cell therapy aims to assist during this vulnerable period — the months during which the body is rebuilding its natural defenses. After two decades of clinical trials, the technology has been refined, and is being used to treat more and more patients, many of them children.A boy named Johan is one of them.Today he is a mischievous, smiling toddler with a thick shock of light-brown hair, who never tires, playfully...
January 02, 2020

The 'supercells' that cured an infant's grave genetic illness

This handout combination of photographs released on Oct. 3, 2019, by Clinatec Endowment Fund (fonds de dotation Clinatec) shows French tetraplegic 'Thibault' as he stands while wearing an exo-skeleton at The University of Grenoble in Grenoble. — AFP
Paralyzed man walks again with brain-controlled exoskeleton
PARIS — A French man paralyzed in a night club accident can walk again thanks to a brain-controlled exoskeleton in what scientists say is a breakthrough providing hope to tetraplegics seeking to regain movement.The patient trained for months, harnessing his brain signals to control a computer-simulated avatar to perform basic movements before using the robot device to walk.Doctors who conducted the trial cautioned that the device is years away from being publicly available but stressed that it had "the potential to improve patients' quality of life and autonomy".The man involved, identified only as Thibault, a 28-year-old from Lyon, said the technology had given him a new lease of life.Four years ago that life changed forever when he fell 12 meters (40 feet) from a balcony...
October 04, 2019

Paralyzed man walks again with brain-controlled exoskeleton

A scientist dissects a mosquito at a research facility in Rockville, Maryland. This week, scientists in Burkina Faso released some 1,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. -Reuters
Scientists release sterile mosquitoes in Burkina to fight malaria
SOUROUKOUDINGA, BURKINA FASO - Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of genetically sterilized mosquitoes.Their experiment is the first outside the lab to release genetically altered mosquitoes in the hope of reducing their ability to spread the often deadly disease.It works using a technique called a gene drive, which edits and then propagates a gene in a population - in this case to prevent males from producing offspring.Investments in anti-malarial drugs, mosquito nets and insecticides have slowed malaria over the past two decades in Africa, which accounts for more than 90% of global cases.But malaria still killed more than 400,000 people across the continent in 2017, and...
September 18, 2019

Scientists release sterile mosquitoes in Burkina to fight malaria

An Ivorian doctor uses a tablet computer in Bouake hospital's trailblazer telemedicine departement for heart diseases, in Bouake on June 20, 2019. -AFP
In Ivory Coast, telemedicine revolution proves blessing for heart patients
BOUAKE, IVORY COAST - Every time Catherine Coulibaly's 19-year-old son had to make a routine appointment with the cardiologist for his heart condition, she gritted her teeth as she silently counted the financial cost.It wasn't just the hospital fee -- there was the transport, food and accommodation, too, all of it amounting to a hefty burden for an Ivorian family on a modest income.But thanks to telemedicine -- consultations that doctors conduct through the internet or by phone -- this cost is now a fading memory.Her son can book an appointment at a telemedicine facility in a nearby town in northern Ivory Coast.There, he is attached to monitoring machines which send the data to Bouake University Hospital in the center of the country, where it is scrutinized by a heart doctor.The...
September 16, 2019

In Ivory Coast, telemedicine revolution proves blessing for heart patients

Cancer cells are seen on a large screen connected to a microscope at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, Germany. -Reuters
Cancer overtakes heart disease as biggest rich-world killer
LONDON — Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in wealthy countries and could become the world's biggest killer within just a few decades if current trends persist, researchers said on Tuesday.Publishing the findings of two large studies in The Lancet medical journal, the scientists said they showed evidence of a new global "epidemiologic transition" between different types of chronic disease.While cardiovascular disease remains, for now, the leading cause of mortality worldwide among middle-aged adults — accounting for 40 percent of all deaths — that is no longer the case in high-income countries, where cancer now kills twice as many people as heart disease, the findings showed."Our report found cancer to be the second most common cause...
September 03, 2019

Cancer overtakes heart disease as biggest rich-world killer

A model wears a bacteria-infused Skin II bodysuit which is claimed to improve body odor, encourage cell renewal and boost the immune system. –Courtesy photo
Body odour? Bacteria-embedded bodysuit may help
LONDON - Deodorant not enough to stop your body odor? A new futuristic-style bodysuit with live bacteria embedded in it could help combat those unpleasant smells.The pale grey, long-sleeved "Skin II" contains healthy probiotic bacteria, reducing the smell of body odor, said its designer Rosie Broadhead."It's not the sweat on your body that causes body odor, it's the bacteria. So we've incorporated healthy bacteria into the textiles to enable a healthy microbiome which will help to reduce your body odor," said Broadhead."This change in the microbiome is associated with reducing your body odor, encouraging cell renewal and is really good for the skin's immune system," she said.Broadhead developed the garment as part of her postgraduate degree at...
August 14, 2019

Body odour? Bacteria-embedded bodysuit may help

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