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Skipping out on exercise in favor of less demanding activities — such as sitting or lying down — was linked to a slight decline in memory and thinking abilities, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.The differences, though small, show how even minor changes in physical activity levels can affect a person’s health, including brain health, said lead study author John Mitchell, a researcher at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health in the United Kingdom.Mitchell and his colleagues used data from the 1970 British Cohort Study — an ongoing study that tracks the health of…

Standard treatment for locally advanced colorectal cancers that have invaded the local tissue but have not spread to distant tissues involves surgery followed by postoperative chemotherapy, also known as adjuvant chemotherapy.Despite its benefits, this standard treatment is associated with disease recurrence in 20–30% of colorectal cancer patients.A new phase 3 randomized controlled trial examined whether receiving chemotherapy before and after surgery was more effective than postsurgery chemotherapy alone.The study found that this approach (neoadjuvant chemotherapy) was safe and more effective, reducing the size or spread of the tumor, and preventing disease recurrence more than standard adjuvant chemotherapy.A recent study published…

Though there was a definite grandma-core streak running through the fall men’s presentations, none were quite so story-specific as Maria Koch’s outing for 032c. Called Destiny’s Child, the collection was presented in the Peter Kilchmann gallery in the Marais district, where visitors were greeted by a video installation on loop and a Louise Bourgeois-adjacent spider lounging on a sofa. A literary reference to the writings of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard touched on leaping into the void, ignoring intention, and just trusting the outcome. More prosaically, it circled back to Koch’s mother who, for her 80th birthday, got her first…

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Dinner on Saturday was a very intentional—and delicious—spread. “It’s the same food every year, and there’s a specific number of dishes,” says Liang of her family meal. “A specific number of dishes have to be vegetables, meat, or fish.” On the menu was braised mushrooms with fat choy, as well as a whole fish. “It’s really important in Chinese culture that you see the whole animal from start to finish,” says Liang. For dessert, meanwhile, they indulged in Tangyuan. “They’re like these little Mochi rice balls,” says Liang. The dress code for the evening? It wasn’t too strict—just to wear…

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Berlin is not stopping other European Union member states from sending German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, according to the bloc’s foreign affairs chief.Josep Borrell was speaking following a meeting of foreign affairs ministers in Brussels on Monday, where he pledged the EU’s continued support for Kyiv.”Ukraine has to win this war and we will support it in the best possible way,” he told reporters.”Germany is not blocking other countries that wish to do so: sending tanks. So, Germany is not blocking the export of Leopard tanks,” he added.Given Leopard 2 tanks are made in Germany, Berlin is supposed to…

Food and Drug Administration advisers will meet Thursday to discuss simplifying the COVID-19 vaccination schedule, allowing most people to get the currently available booster, regardless of how many doses they had received before that.The agency’s proposal was outlined in briefing documents posted online Monday.Currently, everyone ages 6 months and older are required to complete a primary vaccination series — at least two doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Novavax vaccines or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine— before they can get a booster dose two months later.The FDA is proposing skipping over that primary series, meaning that most unvaccinated individuals…