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How will fall sports fare during the pandemic? Few remember the 1968 Hong Kong flu roiled football and basketball
A virus scything through locker rooms all over the East Coast, infecting the NBA’s most respected player, forcing one college ...
Should America stop public gatherings to slow coronavirus? Hard lessons learned from the Spanish flu pandemic in Philadelphia in 1918
In 2020, as sports officials here and elsewhere struggle to deal with the worldwide coronavirus outbreak, the influenza epidemic of ...
Cubs’ Bill Buckner succumbed to Lewy body dementia and Ted Turner is battling it. How it’s different from Alzheimer’s
Bill Buckner, the famed Boston Red Sox hitter who also famously missed a ground ball during the 1986 World Series, ...
Heavy drinking, alcoholism are ‘not the same thing’, genetic study shows
A huge analysis of drinking patterns among veterans has found genetic distinctions between heavy drinkers and alcoholics, according to a ...
New IQ test for pro athletes promises dynamic assessment of ‘sports-specific’ abilities
[T]he Athletic Intelligence Quotient, a test that measures an athlete’s sports-specific cognitive abilities [took] a while to build. Nearly 15 ...
How long can top athletes maintain that ‘elite’ status?
Think of the veteran baseball slugger who is good at guessing what type of pitch is coming. Or the aging ...
Oral cancer epidemic in men caused by HPV, immune system gone ‘awry’
[S]cientists have made headway in figuring out why HPV, the human papillomavirus, has this glaring gender bias. Men are four ...
FDA approves first gene therapy for a genetic disease—onetime cure for rare blindness
The first gene therapy to restore sight to individuals who suffer from a rare inherited genetic blindness was approved by ...
Pediatrician debunks claims that GMOs and chemicals used with them are bad for the environment
[Editor’s note: Emiliano Tatar is a pediatrician at the Einstein Healthcare Network Roxborough Plaza. The following is an interview with ...
Why do some skeptics still claim GMOs unhealthy despite abundant contrary evidence?
The real question is whether [genetically] modified foods have been shown to cause harm in adults and children... Jon Entine, ...
EU’s delayed investigation of Dow-DuPont merger threatens to kill deal
...Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. hoped to merge "during the second half of 2016," the companies said in their July ...
Latest genetic engineering machine makes biotech research much easier
"It's one of the fastest-growing industries in America," said Orkan Telhan[, describing the biotechnology boom]... But the trouble with biotechnology ...
‘Certified organic’ benefits sales, not kids’ health says pediatrician
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Marketing for organics focuses ...
Many parents buy into ‘faulty premise’ that organic safer for kids
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is almost a ...
Leukemia T-cell gene therapy shows progress, but not as effective as hoped
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Four years ago, University ...
Philadelphia Inquirer joins long list of prominent newspapers opposing GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. America's foremost nutritional problem ...
Transgender teen finds support in family and community
“Now I feel I don’t have to hide,” said 17-year-old Matt Dawkins, who came out to his family as a ...
How one infant’s death made important contribution to research
When she found out early in her pregnancy that one of her identical twins would die at birth, Sarah Gray ...
Dupont’s new GMO soybean is transfat free, benefitting consumers
For 37 years - since 1977 - breaded and fried white mushrooms have been a favorite in the food court ...
Seeing a fetus’ future ills
Philadelphia InquirerSeeing a fetus' future illsPhiladelphia InquirerConsider that the Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, took 13 years and cost ...
Man’s best friend points the way in genetics research
Dogs may soon become man's best friend on a level that goes far beyond companionship and loyalty. Researchers report that ...
Researchers report a gene-therapy success
For a quarter of a century, gene therapy has been stymied, largely because the patient's immune system attacks the treatment ...
