Lowcountry dentists notice uptick in oral health problems during pandemic
VIDEO: Local dentists notice uptick in oral health problems during pandemic By Carter Coyle | February 9, 2021 at 5:59 PM EST - Updated February 10 at 9:41 AM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Even if you have not gotten sick from the COVID-19 virus, the pandemic could still be harming your health through stress.
Stress can physically manifest in your head, mouth and neck, and cause tooth, jaw and muscle pain.
The American Association of Endodontists reported more than half of Americans put off regular dental check-ups because of the pandemic. 25% of people said they waited until later in the morning to brush their teeth, while 21% of people admitted they completely stopped brushing in the morning.
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If you’ve just completed your undergraduate degree or are currently pursuing it, it’s never too late (or early!) to consider graduate school. In the face of Columbia’s whopping 17 graduate schools, each with its own set of unique requirements and degrees, choosing the right program might feel like an overwhelming decision. To help you through your selection process, Spectrum has answered your most pressing questions and compiled a guide to every Columbia graduate school.
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NEW YORK, NY (Feb. 1, 2021) Errors in the way chromosomes are packed into antibody-producing B cells appear to play a role in the development of B cell-related blood cancers, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The findings could lead to new biomarkers for predicting the onset of these cancers and to a new class of cancer therapies that prevent or correct harmful changes in genome architecture.
The study was published online Feb. 1 in the journal
Nature Genetics.
Antibodies are made by immune cells called B cells through a series of carefully controlled chromosome rearrangements and good mutations that allow the cell to make a wide array of different antibodies. Although these changes are essential for generating the vast diversity of antibodies, there is a risk that bad mutations will occur and lead to B cell-derived cancers, says study leader Uttiya Basu, PhD, professor of microbiology & imm
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NEW YORK, NY (Jan. 11, 2021) Thousands of different genetic mutations have been implicated in cancer, but a new analysis of almost 10,000 patients found that regardless of the cancer s origin, tumors could be stratified in only 112 subtypes and that, within each subtype, the Master Regulator proteins that control the cancer s transcriptional state were virtually identical, independent of the specific genetic mutations of each patient.
The study, published Jan. 11 in
Cell, confirms that Master Regulators provide the molecular logic that integrates the effect of many different and patient-specific mutations to implement the transcriptional state of a specific tumor subtype, thus greatly expanding the fraction of patients who may respond to the same treatment.
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Mayor Ryan Stanley gives a COVID-19 update during Monday s briefing at Joplin City Hall. Globe | Roger Nomer alert
From staff reports news@joplinglobe.com Dec 27, 2020 4 min to read
Mayor Ryan Stanley gives a COVID-19 update during Monday s briefing at Joplin City Hall. Globe | Roger Nomer
Q: Looking back on the year 2020, what were some of the highlights for the city of Joplin?
A: 2020 has been a year full of opportunities and challenges. The two most significant highlights have been the hiring of a new city manager and the transition of our public safety employees from the city s public safety pension to Missouri s LAGERS pension.