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Validation may be best way to support stressed out friends and family
In uncertain times, supporting your friends and family can help them make it through. But your comforting words can have…
A possible treatment for COVID-19 and an approach for developing others
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease is more transmissible, but has a lower mortality rate than its sibling, SARS-CoV,…
Wildfire perceptions largely positive after hiking in a burned landscape
Results from pre- and post-hike surveys of a burned landscape indicate that people understand and appreciate the role of fire…
How cognitive intelligence is a whole brain phenomenon
An international collaborative study provides findings on the neural basis of intelligence, otherwise known as general cognitive ability (IQ).
Why Are Women Underrepresented in Cardiology?
When I was an intern many years ago at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, the only women working…
QT Interval Abnormalities with Pulmonary Emboli
I read with interest the report “Telltale T Waves” by Kondamudi et al1 in the February 2019 issue of The…
Lipid helps heal the eye’s frontline protection
A species of a lipid that naturally helps skin injuries heal appears to also aid repair of common corneal injuries,…
Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer
Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best deliver drug therapy to…
A.I. Versus the Coronavirus
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to look…