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Masks: UK. Breathe In, Breathe Out
Read more: Masks: UK. Breathe In, Breathe OutMasks: UK. Breathe In, Breathe Out It is too much to expect that under our British Bulldog leader Boris Johnson the United Kingdom would submit to learning anything from nations in East Asia. …
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When to Wear What Masks: Exploring Masks During Four Months of Social Distancing Imposed by COVID-19
Read more: When to Wear What Masks: Exploring Masks During Four Months of Social Distancing Imposed by COVID-19When to Wear What Masks: Exploring Masks During Four Months of Social Distancing Imposed by COVID-19 When COVID-19 attacked Hong Kong in late January 2020, most of us were caught off guard. …
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Menstrual Pads, Its History, and Its Cultural Meaning
Read more: Menstrual Pads, Its History, and Its Cultural MeaningMenstrual Pads, Its History, and Its Cultural Meaning Disposable menstrual pads became the mainstream in China in just 30 years, but some are struggling to get them in the country. …
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A Tale of Two Covers — How the Manchurian Plague of 1910 – 11 Contributed to the Global History of Medical Equipment
Read more: A Tale of Two Covers — How the Manchurian Plague of 1910 – 11 Contributed to the Global History of Medical EquipmentA Tale of Two Covers — How the Manchurian Plague of 1910 – 11 Contributed to the Global History of Medical Equipment Masks have never been more symbolic and integral to global public health. In 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent full-fledged pandemic caused demands for masks (especially N95 and surgical masks) across the world…
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Covid Testing and Mask Wearing: Rebuilding Everyday Life — China’s Routinized Epidemic Prevention and Control
Read more: Covid Testing and Mask Wearing: Rebuilding Everyday Life — China’s Routinized Epidemic Prevention and ControlCovid Testing and Mask Wearing: Rebuilding Everyday Life — China’s Routinized Epidemic Prevention and Control Everyday life in China’s post-epidemic era is restructured through routinized epidemic control. …
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Life and Times of Ephedra — The Quest for a Scientific Use of an Ancient Remedy and TCM’s Long road to modernization
Read more: Life and Times of Ephedra — The Quest for a Scientific Use of an Ancient Remedy and TCM’s Long road to modernizationLife and Times of Ephedra — The Quest for a Scientific Use of an Ancient Remedy and TCM’s Long road to modernization In June 1935, a famous medical journal in Shanghai, Yijie Chunqiu (醫界春秋, “Annals of medicine”) published a short essay called “Mahuang zhuan” (麻黃傳, “A biography of ephedra”). …
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Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid: TCM Pharmacotherapy in the Time of Coronavirus
Read more: Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid: TCM Pharmacotherapy in the Time of CoronavirusShuanghuanglian Oral Liquid: TCM Pharmacotherapy in the Time of Coronavirus On the evening of January 31, 2020 — the seventh day of the lunar new year — news broke and spread rapidly on the Chinese social media platform WeChat regarding a certain shuanghuanlian koufuye (双黄连口服液, hereafter SHL oral liquid) showing efficacy in inhibiting the “novel…
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Health QR Code: Technological and/or Social Infrastructure about Pandemic Control and Privacy
Read more: Health QR Code: Technological and/or Social Infrastructure about Pandemic Control and PrivacyHealth QR Code: Technological and/or Social Infrastructure about Pandemic Control and Privacy How can we balance the benefits and risks of such big-scale surveillance systems? This is a tricky problem. …
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Stand-to-pee Toilet: Practical Competency and Gendered Bodily Norms
Read more: Stand-to-pee Toilet: Practical Competency and Gendered Bodily NormsStand-to-pee Toilet: Practical Competency and Gendered Bodily Norms Stand-to-pee (STP) devices allow females to urinate while standing upright. …