Human Rights
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, expressed outrage on Friday over a 34 years in prison sentence handed down to a Saudi woman charged with following and retweeting so-called dissidents…
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A graphic of traumatic brain injury with blood test vials. Credit: Justine Ross, Michigan Medicine In the study, the method predicted poor outcomes six months after injury with high accuracy....
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Researchers discovered new compounds in marine sponges that were capable of killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Brazilian scientists discovered several compounds in a marine sponge from Fernando de Noronha, an island off...
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Artist’s illustration of a pulsar. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University Occasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists predict that these short bursts...
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The most common kind of heart disease in the US is coronary artery disease (CAD), which can result in a heart attack. Discriminatory housing policies from the past may still...
Health
According to a study conducted by experts from Harvard School Of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, spirituality should be incorporated into care for both severe disease and general health.
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There was something different about the early Christians—a tranquility and certainty that was apparent to the outsider.
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You may have heard of MCT oil, a relatively new supplement that takes the form of a colorless oil. MCT oil isn’t just a passing health trend, but a proven...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for countries to improve access to two lifesaving Ebola medicines, in its first guidelines on the viral disease, published on Friday.
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Ruslan Khalikov is an expert in religious studies, a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion, and he works on a project to document the...
