The human heart is a muscle, but it’s also a kind of complicated balloon—a balloon that fills and empties roughly 60 to 100 times every minute, and several billion times during the course of a lifetime.
Among people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the walls of the heart muscle are abnormally thick. This thickness can interfere with the heart’s normal filling-and-emptying operation. “If you think of a balloon made with super-thick rubber, you have to blow harder to fill it, and it’s the same with a hypertrophic heart,” says Dr. Daphne Hsu, professor of pediatrics and medicine at Pediatric Heart Center of Montefiore/Einstein in New York.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common form of genetic heart disease in the U.S. and the second commonest heart-…
For those living in affluent countries, it’s easy to forget about tuberculosis, which seems like a disease of the Victorian eraคำพูดจาก เว็บตรงไม่ผ่านเอเย่นต์. In the U.S., thanks to investments in public health and TB surveillance infrastructure, less than 600 people died from the disease in 2020. Compared to COVID-19, which caused 350,000 deaths that same year, it’s understandable why it’s not at the top of the U.S. public health agenda.
But if you zoom out and look at global public health, TB gets much more scary. It is the world’s most deadly infectious disease, killing approximately 1.5 million people per year, reclaiming the top spot…
NASA has been asked to do a lot of things in the 64 years it’s been a federal agency, and on the whole, it’s delivered the goods. Beat the Soviet Union to the moon? Check. Build a fleet of reusable space shuttles? Check. Oversee a 15-nation collaboration that built a football-field sized International Space Station? Check.
But there’s one thing NASA has never been asked to do, and that’s a very good thing because it can’t: turn a profit.
As with every other branch of the government, the space agency’s money flows only one way: out. And there was a time that Congress was only too happy to cut seemingly endless checks that allowed NASA to keep spending. In 1966, at the peak of the race to the moon, the space agency’s budget was $5.9 b…
New confirmed cases of COVID-19 are once again rising across a broad region of the United States in what could be an early indication of a fifth wave of infections and related deaths. The timing is particularly inopportune, as millions of Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving. While the insurgent virus never strikes everywhere at once, the holidays do.
Like the early days of the second, third and fourth waves, the abrupt flatlining of a precipitous decline in cases is not a good omen when it lasts more than a week. In five of the past seven days, the weekly rolling average of new cases, which is reasonably resistant to daily fluctuations in reporting, has been higher than the day before.คำพูดจาก Toward the end of the 19th century, a New York City surgeon named Dr. William Coley purposely injected one of his patients with streptococcal bacteria. Coley wasn’t crazy. He hoped the bacterial infection would stimulate an immune response that would slow the spread of his patient’s cancer, which was inoperable. The experiment worked; the patient’s tumor shrank. For the next 40 years, Coley and his research collaborators would test similar remedies on more than 1,000 cancer patientsคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. They had failures but also many successes, especially among people with bone or soft-tissue cancers. Today, Coley is sometimes called the father of i…
There aren’t a lot of people who are putting in 300 days at work each year when they’re 83, but then there aren’t a lot of Jane Goodalls in the world eitherคำพูดจาก สล็อตทดลองเล่นฟรีถ. That’s OK, because humanity is already a better species for having the one Jane Goodall we’ve got — as her recent conversation with TIME makes clear.
Goodall, of course, is best known for the decades she spent studying the chimpanzees of Gombe, bringing the world a much deeper understanding of homo sapiens’ closest genetic kin and raising awareness of African wildlife in general. But her body of work is far deeper and broad…
An all-too-long 141 days after the NBA shut down on March 11—an event that first signaled to many Americans the dire seriousness of COVID-19—the league will restart its 2019-2020 season on Thursday, with a nationally televised doubleheader: the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz face off at 6:30 p.m. eastern, while the Los Angeles Lakers take on the Los Angeles Clippers at 9; both games will air on TNT.
At one point, fans, league officials and players might have imagined a resumed NBA season to be a sign that America has emerged from the worst of the novel coronavirus. Unfortunately, tip-off is no mark of public health improvement: July has seen a record surge of new daily cases of COVID-19; on July 28th alone, more than 60,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the U…
Interest was undeniably high though. Location intelligence and data specialist Loqate said that online transactions rose by 55% year-on-year between midnight and 10:00 on Black Friday, “despite fears around false deals and spending fatigue.”Online shopping picked up in earnest from 05:00 onwards and online transactions grew 45% faster than last year, which is slightly lower than the annual increase of 50% seen from 2016 to 2017.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
And spending accelerated as soon as consumers got into their offices with more transactions conducted between 09:00 and 10:00 than in the hours before work. Some categories soared. Shoppers on Amazon bought more than …
The round was led by Japanese corporation Itochu, with support from existing investors Canaan Partners and Battery Ventures. According to a press statement, Joor has now raised a total of $36 million and will use the funding to expand into Asia, as well as to drive ongoing product innovation for both brands and retailers.Currently, Itochu handles over 150 U.S. and European brands within the Japanese market. Through the partnership, Joor will have access to the Japanese company’s brands and will help accelerate the entry of new overseas brands into Japan.
“[Joor has] leading technology, innovative solutions for brands and retailers, and a robust marketplace,” said Yoshihiro Fukushima, executive officer of Itochu, in a release. “Joor’s dominance in North America and Europe m…
Through 2026, the market is expected to register a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4%, reaching $11.7 billion, according to a new report by GlobalData, a data and analytics company.Previously, the per capita expenditure (PCE) on make-up in China increased from $1.2 in 2016 to $2.8 in 2021, surpassing the regional average of $2.4. Still, it lagged the global average of $3.9.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
In particular, the eye make-up category is set to register the fastest value CAGR in China over 2021 through 2026, followed by the lip make-up category.“The Covid-19 lockdowns in Shanghai and Beijing undermined demand for color cosmetics in China in the first hal…