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5 things to know about the ‘conundrum’ of lupus

Lupus is unpredictable, triggering different symptoms in different patients. A chronic illness, it can even attack many different parts of the body. The condition is an autoimmune disease, which means that a person’s immune system—the body system that usually fights infections—attacks healthy tissue instead. It can cause inflammation and pain anywhere in a patient’s body.

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‘We eat and drink from garbage’

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — Khadija Khreiss has the equivalent of 35 cents in her wallet today. Tomorrow, she may have nothing. Four streets away, Ahmad Chibly is penniless. Behind him a Ferris wheel, its once gaudy paint now faded, stands tall against Beirut’s Mediterranean coastline. It is a hot, spring day during Ramadan, when practicing

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Childhood obesity, high blood pressure, cholesterol linked to poor cognitive performance in mid-30s and beyond

Having cardiovascular risk factors from childhood to adulthood is linked to poor cognitive performance in a person’s 30s, 40s and 50s, according to new research that followed children over three decades. Researchers said the study was the first to highlight the impact of lifelong cardiovascular risk factors on the brain at midlife. The more cardiovascular

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China blames the US for hyping fears of uncontrolled rocket reentry as space race heats up

For a week, China’s Long March 5B grabbed global attention, as space agencies and experts closely tracked its trajectory, speculating where debris would fall upon the rocket’s uncontrolled reentry. In China, however, the country’s space administration stayed silent for days amid criticism that allowing such a large rocket stage to free fall towards Earth was

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French pilot files legal complaint alleging being tied up on firing range during explosions as hazing ritual

A French pilot has filed a legal complaint for “aggravated voluntary violence” and “endangering someone’s life” alleging colleagues in the French Air Force tied him to a target and ordered fighter jets to open fire around him in a “hazing ritual,” his lawyer Frédéric Berna told CNN on Saturday. The complaint filed this week in

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Queen’s first cousin allegedly trading on links to Putin and monarchy, UK media report

Prince Michael of Kent, Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin, said Sunday that he “has no special relationship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after an undercover journalistic investigation claimed he and a close friend were “secretly trading on their links” with Putin for profit. The report centers around undercover recordings of a Zoom meeting involving Prince Michael,

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