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Cold water swimming should be introduced as a public health measure

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Cold water swimming should be introduced as a public health measure

Outdoor swimming helps reduce inflammation, which is linked to health issues ranging from heart disease to depression. It should be widely adopted as a public health measure, says Mark Harper

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2JMTF7C Polio virus medical science illustration, 3d rendering of poliovirus in black background.

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New York has declared a state of emergency for polio

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2009 Margaret Williams, PhD; Claressa Lucas, PhD;Tatiana Travis, BS Under a moderately-high magnification of 6500X, this colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted a grouping of Gram-negative Legionella pneumophila bacteria. Please see PHIL 11092 through 11140 for additional SEMs of these organisms, specifically PHIL 11121 for a black and white version of this image. You?ll note that a number of these bacteria seem to display an elongated-rod morphology. L. pneumophila are known to most frequently exhibit this configuration when grown in broth, however, they can also elongate when plate-grown cells age, as it was in this case, especially when they?ve been refrigerated. The usual L. pneumophila morphology consists of stout, ?fat? bacilli, which is the case for the vast majority of the organisms depicted here. These bacteria originated on a 1 week-old culture plate (+/- 1 day), which had incubated a single colony, at 37?C upon a buffered charcoal yeast extract (BCYE) medium with no antibiotics.

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Legionnaires’ disease may be cause of mystery pneumonia in Argentina

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A child with symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease

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A common childhood illness could be behind 'tomato flu' outbreak

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UK schools are teaching teenagers about mental health in the wrong way

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UK schools are teaching teenagers about mental health in the wrong way

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An artificial intelligence that analyses the microbiome and then recommends personalised diets may relieve chronic constipation more effectively that the standard treatment

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AI that recommends diets based on the microbiome relieves constipation

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Am I Normal? review: Deep-dive sets us straight on our need for norms

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The power of quiet: The mental and physical health benefits of silence

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Bronchiolitis is most commonly caused by the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

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RSV vaccine that may protect against bronchiolitis has promise in mice

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Detaching the bioadhesive ultrasound device from the skin

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Ultrasound stickers could continuously image internal organs for days

A patch the size of a postage stamp can continuously deliver ultrasound imaging for 48 hours, and it has been used to see changes in the lungs, heart and stomach of people exercising and drinking

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Access to nature needs to be a right, not a privilege

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Daydreaming has a dark side – is your fantasising holding you back?

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Air pollution likely to be causing dementia, say UK science advisers

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Why spending time near water gives us a powerful mental health boost

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