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Up to 45 percent of dementia risk could be prevented or delayed, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, citing modifiable risk factors such as tobacco and air pollution.

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Garden worker Robert Nilsson shows chicken manure with which he fertilizes lawns in Stadsparken in an attempt to prevent residents from gathering for the traditional celebrations to mark the Walpurgis Night amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lund, Sweden, on April 30, 2020.

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Swedish town uses chicken manure to help stop spread of coronavirus

A town in southern Sweden has turned to a traditional source to try to prevent the coronavirus spreading during an annual festive event on Thursday: chicken manure.

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Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike (right) looks at a greeting robot called

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'I'm cheering for you': Robot welcome at Tokyo quarantine

Coronavirus quarantine can be lonely, but at one Tokyo hotel converted to accept patients with mild symptoms, a humanoid robot will be there to offer support and encouragement -- as well as admonishments and warnings.

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Customers wear face protection in a supermarket in Vienna on April 6, 2020. As of Monday, it is mandatory in Austria to wear such protection in supermarkets with a sales area of 400 m2 or more.

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Coronavirus shopping tips to keep you safe at the supermarket

For many of us, grocery shopping is when we will come into contact with the highest number of people during the pandemic.

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The clinic welcomes individual patients, either adults or children, as well as those seeking education-related evaluations and consultations.

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University of Indonesia now provides online psychological consultations

The integrated psychology clinic at the University of Indonesia is providing online consultation services during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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The stay-at-home policy amid the COVID-19 outbreak might present new stressors for children.

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COVID-19: How to protect your child's mental health

While we can agree that staying home and self-isolating is important to prevent the spread of COVID-19, doing so might have negative impacts, especially on children.

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Even natural compounds like terpenes, which are present in ginseng, basil and cloves, can cause irritation, it said.

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Essential oil diffusers may cause pollution in home says watchdog

Essential oil diffusers could be a source of pollution in the home, the French food and environmental safety agency warned Tuesday.

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After measuring the participants' blood vessel function, the researchers found that participants who had switched from cigarettes to e-cigarettes and those who were dual users had arteries that were just as stiff as the traditional cigarette users.

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New study finds e-cigarette may cause similar damage to the arteries as tobacco cigarettes

Using e-cigarettes could cause similar vascular damage as smoking tobacco cigarettes, according to new research.

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Men may be 2.5 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than women

Men may be more likely to die from COVID-19 than women, according to new research.

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Psychological consultation hotline launched in virus-stricken Indonesia

The government has launched a psychological consultation service to ensure the public’s mental health at a time of elevated stress.

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Indonesia’s men more susceptible to COVID-19 than women: Health Ministry

More men die from COVID-19 than women in Indonesia, according to recent data issued by the Health Ministry.

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The new coronavirus has forced a rethink of the handshake. No matter how friendly, it is an exchange of potentially infectious microorganisms.

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Hello, social distancing. Goodbye, handshakes?

The new coronavirus has forced a rethink of the handshake. No matter how friendly, it is an exchange of potentially infectious microorganisms.

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With all this hand washing, it’s easy to get dry skin or for existing skin conditions to flare up.

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My skin's dry with all this hand washing. What can I do?

With all this hand washing, it’s easy to get dry skin or for existing skin conditions to flare up.

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Dr Gurd says that a total workout can be completed in under five minutes, and you should see results fairly quickly — previous findings have shown that doing the short workout just four days a week for four weeks is enough to improve muscle endurance.

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Can a five-minute workout keep you fit during quarantine?

Working out at a high intensity but for a short period of time could offer an effective at-home total body workout.

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Activities that occupy our minds, force us to be in the present and make us focus on “what is right here, right now”, give us a chance to give a rest to our thoughts and emotions from the cunning trap of anxiety.

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'Focus on things we can control': Experts give advice on how to cope amid the pandemic

Experts share tips on how to cope amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which may significantly affect the state of our mental health.

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Frustrated: Shelter-in-place orders set up as a form of physical distancing have unwittingly affected the sex lives of many people, including in Indonesia, as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on.

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'Porn doesn't even spark joy anymore': Alone and sexually frustrated amid COVID-19 pandemic

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This handout illustration image obtained Feb. 3, 2020, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

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UK issues warning over possible coronavirus-linked illness in kids

British health authorities warned doctors over a growing number of children with a “multi-system inflammatory state” that could be linked to the coronavirus, while reassuring people any complications related to Covid-19 for children appeared rare.

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An isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV or novel coronavirus, is seen in a transmission electron microscopic image obtained from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, US March 10, 2020.

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Virus likely to keep coming back each year, say top Chinese scientists

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WHO chief says pandemic 'far from over', worried about children

The coronavirus pandemic is "far from over" and is still disrupting normal health services, especially life-saving immunization for children in the poorest countries.

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Based on the new findings, the researchers conclude that masks made using a combination of readily available fabrics still have the potential to provide significant protection from respiratory aerosol droplets.

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If you're making a mask at home use a combination of two fabrics, says study

A new US study has found that if you're masking masks at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, then using a combination of two different fabrics and ensuring a good fit could offer the most effective protection.

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A picture shows test tubes of samples to be screened for COVID-19 in a laboratory that analyses thousands of samples each day on April 22, 2020, in Levallois-Perret, near Paris, on the 37th day of a lockdown in France to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus.

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New York maps coronavirus genome to help track future outbreaks

Scientists at New York City's health department have begun to analyze the novel coronavirus's genetic material to allow them to trace the origins of any future outbreaks in the coming months as they cautiously look to reopen the largely shuttered city.

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People are seen in St James Park, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, on April 26, 2020.

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Accepting, suffering or resisting: Study groups Britons' response to coronavirus lockdown

Britons can be broadly split into three groups by their response to the coronavirus lockdown: those accepting the situation, those suffering as a result of it and those resisting it.

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Billionaire Bill Gates is funding production of the seven most promising ideas for a vaccine as he refocuses his philanthropic work on the deadly coronavirus.

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Bill Gates’s coronavirus vaccine could be ready in 12 months

Billionaire Bill Gates is funding production of the seven most promising ideas for a vaccine as he refocuses his philanthropic work on the deadly coronavirus.

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From 9-11 to a pandemic, New Yorkers once again put to the test

Nearly two decades after Manhattan's Twin Towers fell in history's deadliest attack on US soil, the coronavirus pandemic is once again testing the storied mettle of New Yorkers.

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Working student Leon Rottmann coats a shopping trolley for disinfection at the mechanic's workshop of the Startup UVIS UV-Innovative Solutions in Cologne, western Germany, on April 22, 2020, amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The Startup UVIS UV-Innovative Solutions of Katharina Obladen and Tanja Nickel developed a chemical-free disinfection for the handrails of escalators and surfaces. A module continuously irradiates them with UV light as they pass through. The rays in the UV-C spectrum kill bacteria, moulds and viruses.

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German start-up in global demand with anti-virus escalators

Tanja Nickel and Katharina Obladen were still in high school when they patented an idea to disinfect escalator handrails using UV light.

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Amandine, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) just before giving birth, and Francois, wearing protective face masks, are pictured with their newborn daughter Mahaut at the maternity at CHIREC Delta Hospital in Brussels, Belgium April 25, 2020.

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Mothering with a mask: Belgian with COVID-19 gives birth to healthy baby

A pregnant Belgian woman diagnosed with the coronavirus has given birth to a healthy baby daughter - but must now learn to care for her newborn wearing, and sleeping with, a protective mask.

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A nurse cares for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in the COVID ICU at the University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake during the COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle, Washington, US April 24, 2020.

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WHO says you may catch coronavirus more than once

Catching COVID-19 once may not protect you from getting it again, according to the World Health Organization.

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A protester against the state's extended stay-at-home order to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) demonstrates at the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, US April 24, 2020.

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Coronavirus and COVID-19: Fact versus fiction

Here are some claims that have circulated about how to treat COVID-19 or stop the transmission of the new coronavirus, and the facts according to doctors and health experts.

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France testing whether nicotine could prevent coronavirus

Nicotine could protect people from contracting the coronavirus, according to new research in France, where further trials are planned to test whether the substance could be used to prevent or treat the deadly illness.

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WHO to launch initiative to share COVID-19 drugs, tests and vaccines

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would announce a "landmark collaboration" to speed development of safe, effective drugs, tests and vaccines to prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-19.

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