#tuberculosis

#tuberculosis

The fruit of the cocklebur plant, which grows worldwide and is often considered a noxious weed, has anti-ageing potential, a new study suggests.The weed has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory components that could make it useful as a skin protectant, researchers say.According to the study, compounds in the plant's spiky fruits reduced damage from UVB exposure rays that can cause sunburn, darkening and thickening of the outer layer of the skin and sped up wound healing in laboratory tests using cells and tissues.

Modern mustaches are confusing.Lip fuzz can be a marker of class, non-conformity, delinquency, aspiration, or hypersexuality.Different men grow mustaches for different reasons, but all these men share one thing in common: They made a choice.It is extremely rare that a man's facial hair naturally grow into under-nose topiary if left alone to do its thing.

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AI isn't just good for writing term papers or clickbait financial explainers; it could help save lives in the medical field.At Google's annual The Check Up healthcare event, it announced AI-related partnerships for ultrasound readings, medical language models and cancer treatments - areas where the technology could someday serve as a force for good.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.When archaeologists uncovered the burial site of two brothers who lived during the 15th century BC in Israel, they were surprised to discover that one of them had brain surgery shortly before he died.

Over the years, we here at Pinstripe Alley have had some run learning and reading about amusingly named players from Yankees history.There's one area we haven't totally explored though: players whose names make full sentences.If a player's surname is a verb, that can lead to fun opportunities to make full, gramatically correct sentences out of just the two words in a player name.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A selection of Victorian love letters written by the parents of a former prime minister are being published online for Valentine's Day.The letters were written in 1843 by James Maitland Balfour, then MP for Haddington, and his bride-to-be, Lady Blanche Cecil, the daughter of prominent nobleman, the Marquess of Salisbury.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906.In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century.He was the first Black American to make a living as a writer and was seminal in the start of the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance.

This hole was made in a Bronze Age man's skull shortly before he died, archaeologists say, based on several clues.It's the result of a surgical procedure called a trephination.Kalisher et al., 2023/PLOS ONE During the Bronze Age some 3,500 years ago, the town of Megiddo, currently in northern Israel, was a thriving center of trade.

How and why did Katherine Mansfield provoke such violent extremes of admiration and hostility, both during her life and after it?Fifty years after her death, the BBC television series A Picture of Katherine Mansfield gave a fair example of her reputation in 1973.Tall, intense Vanessa Redgrave played Mansfield; short, baffled Annette Crosbie her devoted dogsbody friend Ida Baker (known as LM), with Jeremy Brett as Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murry taking off his glasses whenever he had to express emotional inadequacy which was frequently.

My friend Charlotte Jones, who has died aged 95, was a pioneering GP, an early advocate of family-planning services and an obstetrician who taught doctors and midwives to make childbirth as positive as possible for women, with fewer medical interventions and more involvement of partners.An only child, Charlotte was born in Vienna and raised in Czechoslovakia.

As the one year anniversary of the war in Ukraine approaches, a group of Brighton Beach volunteers continue serving as the first stop for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war zone in need of relief aid.Leading up to the war, Shorefront Jewish Community Council, a sister organization of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island , began seeing a small trickle of Russian immigrants seeking political asylum, and looking to avoid participating in the coming conflict.

Woman traveled from India to the U.S. and later tested for drug-resistant TB Contact tracing is underway for people who had prolonged close contact with patient Health authorities are working to identify people who may have been exposed to a patient with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.The patient traveled in April from India to the United States, through Chicago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A deputy manager at a nursery has said she was blown away after raising more than 25,000 to help a dairy farmer who appeared on Clarkson's Farm.The Amazon Prime show follows Jeremy Clarkson as he manages an Oxfordshire farm, and season two features Emma Ledbury, a farmer who lost half of her cattle to tuberculosis-carrying badgers.

As surely as a carton of milk couldn't play soccer because it lacked toes and as definite as an outcast tub of butter lives a life in the margarines; dad jokes are the epitome of humor so dry and indifferent to whether or not anyone actually laughs they've become a cultural meme through sheer force of will.

Revising Time: Nonlinear Memory in Brian Tierney's  Rise and Float
Of time, J.W. Dunne, in 1934, writes that if

Time passes or grows or accumulates or expends itself or does anything whatsoever except stand rigid and changeless before a Time-fixed observer, there must be another Time which times that activity of, or along, the first Time, and another Time which times that second Time, and so on in an apparent series to infinity.