Month: August 2020

Khloe Kardashian rejects Tristan Thompson offer to move in – Daily Mail
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Khloe Kardashian rejects Tristan Thompson offer to move in – Daily Mail

NBA center Tristan Thompson asked his babymama Khloé Kardashian to move into his house 'forever' in a sneak peek from the 19th season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which premieres September 17 on E! The clip began with the 36-year-old Good American co-founder lamenting the extensive renovations about to be done on her $7.2M seven-bedroom Calabasas mansion. 'You know, I have my house in LA. I'd love for you and [our daughter] True to stay there as long as you guys need to,' the Canadian 29-year-old offered.   Premieres September 17 on E! NBA center Tristan Thompson asked his babymama Khloé Kardashian to move into his house 'forever' in a sneak peek from the 19th season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians 'And I'll give you guys the keys and you can go party on -...
Netflix Apologizes For “Inappropriate” ‘Cuties’ Poster That Was Criticized For Sexualizing Children – Deadline
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Netflix Apologizes For “Inappropriate” ‘Cuties’ Poster That Was Criticized For Sexualizing Children – Deadline

Netflix has issued a swift mea culpa after a strong backlash today around the marketing of its forthcoming release Cuties. The largely well-received French-language pic won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance this year. It follows Amy, an 11-year-old girl who joins a group of dancers named “The Cuties” at school and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity — upsetting her mother and her values. The film is rated 82% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and critics generally praised it for its handling of sensitive topics. Netflix recently began promoting the movie ahead of its September 9 release on the platform. However, the accompany artwork has provoked a storm of online criticism, with many saying the poster sexualizes children. One Twitter user called it “di...
Ron Evans steals a trick from I/O, and points the way to a transformational diabetes therapy – Endpoints News
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Ron Evans steals a trick from I/O, and points the way to a transformational diabetes therapy – Endpoints News

Salk In­sti­tute sci­en­tist and se­r­i­al biotech en­tre­pre­neur Ron Evans showed new mouse work yes­ter­day that could point to a long-sought holy grail for di­a­betes treat­ment. The study, pub­lished in Na­ture, in­volved a new ap­proach for islet cell trans­plant, a di­a­betes ther­a­py where dys­func­tion­al in­sulin-pro­duc­ing cells on the pan­creas are re­placed with func­tion­al ones. The treat­ment has been around for a while and new ones are in de­vel­op­ment, but they’ve been ham­pered by the fact that pa­tients will re­ject the cells un­less they go on im­muno-sup­pres­sive drugs. But, work­ing with iP­SC stem cells and tricks from im­munother­a­py, Evans and his team de­vel­oped what they called “im­mune-eva­sive” clus­ters of cells — es­sen­tial­ly mi­ni...
NYC Releases Largest And Most Detailed Coronavirus Antibody Testing Data To Date – Gothamist
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NYC Releases Largest And Most Detailed Coronavirus Antibody Testing Data To Date – Gothamist

New York City has published the results of more than 1.8 million coronavirus antibody tests, along with a trove of demographic data that confirms prior testing and hospital data showing that poorer neighborhoods in the Bronx and Queens have been hardest hit by the pandemic. The data, which was initially released on the city's coronavirus data website on Tuesday and will be continually updated, breaks down positive antibody rates by borough, zip code, age and sex between April 11th through the week of August 8th. The city has categorized the tests based on the date of specimen collection, and aggregated them by week. A person tested twice in one week would only be counted once in that week. It may not, however, account for individuals who took the test again on a different we...
An ‘Unprecedented’ Effort to Stop the Coronavirus in Nursing Homes – The New York Times
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An ‘Unprecedented’ Effort to Stop the Coronavirus in Nursing Homes – The New York Times

The coronavirus crept into Heartland Health Care Center, a nursing home in Moline, Ill., on the last day of July, when a member of the nursing staff tested positive. It was an ominous sign: The virus can spread through a nursing home in a flash. Older people — who are often sick and frail and need regular hands-on attention — are uniquely susceptible. Staff members who care for residents are at high risk of infection and of unintentionally spreading the virus. Although nursing home residents make up just 1.2 percent of the United States population, they account for about 40 percent of Covid-19 deaths. But this time, the nursing home was not defenseless. Heartland was the first facility to participate in a large clinical trial of drug that might protect residents from the infection in nur...
Female hunter receives death threats after modeling for French streaming service specializing in hunting, f… – Fox News
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Female hunter receives death threats after modeling for French streaming service specializing in hunting, f… – Fox News

A female hunter is claiming she has received death threats since she became a model for Zone 300, a streaming channel specializing in hunting and fishing content. THIS FALL COULD BE A BUSY HUNTING SEASON DUE TO CORONAVIRUS Johanna Clermont, a 23-year-old law student in France, is considered a “hunting influencer” with her more than 300,000 social media followers. Clermont's pro-hunting brand has since caught the ire of those on Instagram and Facebook, alleging that she receives death threats from social media users due to her hobby. And now that her image is being used on billboards and posters in Paris to promote the new streaming service, the backlash has grown. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Clermont, who has been hunting since she was 16, told The Telegraph...
Ellen DeGeneres Celebrity Support Draws Suspicion From Critics – Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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Ellen DeGeneres Celebrity Support Draws Suspicion From Critics – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Ellen DeGeneres’ reputation is in a free fall, and considering how respected the talk show host once was, she has a long way to drop. But even amid serious allegations, DeGeneres‘ celebrity friends are eager to support her. Stars like Katy Perry and Kevin Hart rushed to her defense. Too bad the public isn’t going along.  Allegations against Ellen DeGeneres Ellen DeGeneres | VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty ImagesRELATED: Is Ellen DeGeneres Mean? Her Jokes At Sofia Vergara’s Expense Would Suggest So DeGeneres has been the host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show since 2003, and was generally believed to be a kind, and loving person. She gained public support after coming out as a lesbian in 1997, and has since been touted as a hero to the LGBTQ+ community. Her personal motto ...
Kirsten Dunst questions Kanye West about her likeness appearing on his campaign materials – Fox News
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Kirsten Dunst questions Kanye West about her likeness appearing on his campaign materials – Fox News

Kirsten Dunst was left baffled when Kanye West tweeted new presidential campaign materials featuring her face. West took to Twitter on Tuesday, as he does most days, to share a poster that included his "Kanye West 2020 Vision" logo. In between his logo are photos of various people, including Dunst's smiling face at the top center. It also includes a photo of Vogue's Anna Wintour. Like fans, Dunst was confused to see her face smiling back at her when she viewed his tweet. She responded to the rapper on Thursday, tweeting, "What's the message here, and why am I apart of it?" COULD KANYE EVEN THEORETICALLY WIN? MISSED BALLOT DEADLINES SEEM TO ERASE ANY PATH It's unclear why West chose to feature Dunst and Wintour on the campaign poster but Dunst's response is evidence she did not sign...
COVID-19 has the potential to be as deadly as the 1918 flu – Live Science
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COVID-19 has the potential to be as deadly as the 1918 flu – Live Science

The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to become more deadly than the 1918 flu pandemic, a new study suggests. Remembered as the deadliest pandemic in recent history, the 1918 influenza pandemic infected one-third of the world's population and killed at least 50 million people, 675,000 of them in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At the time, there were no vaccines and no antibiotics to treat secondary infections that inevitably popped up in flu patients. However, society employed measures like the ones being used today to curb the spread, such as imposing quarantines and endorsing good personal hygiene, according to the CDC.  Over a century later, the world has found itself in the grip of another pandemic, this one caused by the coronavir...
Pharmacists now allowed to administer childhood vaccines, but pediatricians disapprove – CNN
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Pharmacists now allowed to administer childhood vaccines, but pediatricians disapprove – CNN

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