… 50 percent, according to a Johns Hopkins Carey Business School economist’s study of the tax and its impact. The health improvement in the children appeared more gradually than the observed decline in the pollution level. This suggests that the full …
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Researchers find link between low general cognitive ability and elevated risk of not taking statins
… variables, such as age, diabetes, employment status, medications at discharge, and self-assessed physical and mental health. The cognitive ability of more than 2,500 patients had been measured roughly 30 years before the heart attack, when their …
The Centaurus Constellation
Welcome back to Constellation Friday! Today, in honor of the late and great Tammy Plotner, we will be dealing with the “Centaur”, the Centaurus constellation! In the 2nd century CE, Greek-Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus compiled a list of all the then-known 48 constellations. This treatise, known as the Almagest , would used by medieval European and Islamic scholars for over a thousand years to come, effectively becoming astrological and astronomical canon until the early Modern Age.
Simple blood test may be accurate in differentiating between Parkinson’s disease and APDs
A simple blood test may be as accurate as a spinal fluid test when trying to determine whether symptoms are caused by Parkinson’s disease or another atypical parkinsonism disorder, according to a new study published in the February 8, 2017, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. In early stages of disease, it can be difficult to differentiate between Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonism disorders like multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration, because symptoms can overlap.