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If the new coronavirus pandemic has obliterated your grooming routine, you’re not alone. Among many other quandaries, you might be grappling with how to shave your pubic hair these days—particularly if your usual grooming technique isn’t really possible while social distancing. Now, obviously summer’s going to look a lot different this year than it normally […]
BIG SPRING, TEXAS — Mark Lee Dickson squeezed a plastic toy fetus in his right hand as he drove down the highway. Small and soft, it resembled a fetus in its 12th week of development, about the size of a fat baby carrot. Two more of them sat in Dickson’s center console. The 34-year-old pastor […]
Three baboons briefly escaped from a truck en route to a hospital in Sydney on Tuesday and roamed the streets, prompting a police response, huge reaction on social media and a subsequent investigation. Authorities were transporting the male baboon and its two female companions to an animal research facility at a major hospital, the Royal […]
Children exposed to roadside air pollution could have their lung growth stunted by up to 14%, a study suggests. Living within 50m of a major road could increase the risk of lung cancer by up to 10%, the paper also found. The study of 13 cities in the UK and Poland found air pollution contributes […]
A groundbreaking new HIV study has found that there is “effectively zero” chance for people receiving antiretroviral treatment to spread the virus that causes AIDS, which is still linked to around 1 million deaths globally every year. Researchers involved in the massive study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, believe this could be the […]
Public health chiefs have called for cars to be banned around schools in the UK, reports say. Paul Cosford, the medical director of Public Health England, told the Times it should be socially unacceptable to leave a car running near school gates. The comments came as PHE published a series of recommendations on how the […]
I don’t know how long I had been staring at the clock, but it felt like hours. Strangely, it also felt like minutes. I was having trouble figuring out the difference. My eyes wandered from the clock to the room ― a sterile room with white walls, beeping machines and an uncomfortable bed. I was […]
There are thousands of cancer support services available in the UK that address a wide range of areas, including emotional support and practical help with day-to-day tasks as well as medical aid. Unfortunately, large numbers of people are entirely unaware of them. According to a recent YouGov survey 51% of people don’t know that there […]