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Pediatrics

Ask the Pediatrician: What can parents do about baby formula shortage?

Q: There's been a shortage of baby formula at the grocery stores and I'm starting to worry about running out. What can I do?

May 9, 2022

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Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Cold-water swimming: What you can do to acclimatize to the temperature

With the growth in outdoor swimming during the pandemic, and with more people trying it out this winter, the question of whether the body gets used to cold temperatures if you swim often is much debated.

Jan 28, 2022

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Psychology & Psychiatry

Mindfulness can help you work better in the cold and wet

Mindfulness can be used by people who work in extremely cold and wet environments to tolerate low temperatures better and so carry out tasks that require motor skills more effectively, according to research published in the ...

Nov 24, 2021

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Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Ice baths: Are we doing it wrong?

Whilst ice baths are popular with many athletes to aid recovery, new research published in the scientific journal Sports Sciences for Health suggests that many people might not see the expected benefits because they're not ...

Oct 19, 2021

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Medical research

Winter-swimming Scandinavian men can teach us how the body adapts to extreme heat and cold

The Scandinavian winter swimming culture combines brief dips in cold water with hot sauna sessions—and now, a study of young men who participate regularly in these polar plunges finds that winter swimming may allow the ...

Oct 11, 2021

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Water temperature key to schistosomiasis risk and prevention strategies

About one billion people worldwide are at risk for schistosomiasis—a debilitating disease caused by parasitic worms that live in fresh water and in intermediate snail hosts. A new study finds that the transmission risk ...

Mar 8, 2021

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Medical research

Your genetics influence how resilient you are to cold temperatures

Some people just aren't bothered by the cold, no matter how low the temperature dips. And the reason for this may be in a person's genes. Our new research shows that a common genetic variant in the skeletal muscle gene, ACTN3, ...

Feb 25, 2021

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Genetics

Genomic analysis of mako shark reveals genes relating to tumor suppression in humans

Anecdotal reports claim that the incidence of cancer in sharks is very low, but there is not enough data to confirm this estimate categorically. A study published in the journal Genomics, however, presents strong evidence ...

Dec 1, 2020

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