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Have you ever torn your ACL?

Tearing the anterior cruciate ligament, as at least 2m people do every year, is among the most immobilizing injuries someone can sustain. Re-tear rates as high as 20%.

Women suffer ACL injuries as much as eight times more than men. Research suggests this is connected to the menstrual cycle.

A four-year survey of 113 female England footballers found a clear correlation between women in the pre-ovulatory stage of menstruation and the injury.

The reason for this menstrual-cycle link is unclear but using apps that monitor cycles is one way to reduce risks of tearing.

ACL injuries most commonly occur during sports that involve sudden stops or changes in direction, jumping and landing — such as soccer, basketball, football, and downhill skiing.

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‘Emily in Paris’ star says he partly understands why critics panned the ‘cliché’ Netflix show

Despite being a huge hit for Netflix, critics across the board (particularly French critics) have slammed the show for indulging in outdated and offensive stereotypes that present Parisians as rude, sexist, and elitist.

The main love interest in Netflix’s controversial comedy “Emily in Paris” said he partly understands why critics have panned the show. “I think they’re right in a way,” Lucas Bravo, who plays chef Gabriel in the show, said during an interview with Cosmopolitan.

The 32-year-old French actor continued: “At some point, if you want to tell a story about Paris, you have to choose an angle. You have to choose a vision. French critics, they didn’t understand the fact that it’s just one vision. They’re like, ‘Oh, this is not what Paris is.’ Of course. Paris is many things.”

Coronavírus: sintomas neurológicos e psiquiátricos da Covid-19 são ‘regra e não exceção’

Foi o que revelou uma meta-análise de 215 estudos sobre Covid-19 feitos em 30 países, que incluíram um total de 105.638 pessoas que sentiram os sintomas graves da doença.

Os sintomas neurológicos e psiquiátricos mais comuns foram perda do olfato (43%), fraqueza (40%), fadiga (38%), perda do paladar (37%), dor muscular (25%), depressão (23%), dor de cabeça (21%) e ansiedade (16%).

Rogers diz acreditar que uma possível explicação para sintomas como dor de cabeça ou anosmia (perda de olfato) ocorrerem em maior frequência em casos leves é porque provavelmente um paciente que “está sendo transferido para uma unidade intensiva porque não consegue respirar não relate algo como uma dor de cabeça”.

Em alguns casos, os sintomas neurológicos ou psiquiátricos podem aparecer primeiro ou até mesmo ser a única manifestação da doença, diz ele.

“Pesquisas sobre delírio, principalmente com idosos, mostram que esse pode ser o primeiro sintoma da Covid-19, antes mesmo do aparecimento dos sintomas respiratórios”, diz o pesquisador.

Parece que afetar a saúde mental e o cérebro é uma regra da Covid-19, e não uma exceção.

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In 1645, a bloody war raged between Dutch settlers and the Portuguese empire over the sugar plantations of north-east Brazil. Trapped on either side of the conflict were the Potiguara, a powerful indigenous nation. They formed two different groups, each with its own leader, and each sided with one of the two European nations. At the
time, their leaders wrote a series of letters in the Tupi language, enticing their relatives to desert their lot and join enemy lines.

Now, a painstaking new translation of the correspondence has been hailed as a “huge achievement in casting new light on these unique sources written by a native people. The forthcoming publication is the fruit of 30 years of work by Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, a specialist in classical indigenous languages at the University of São Paulo.

The letters were first uncovered in the Dutch archives in 1885, but the texts were blotted and jumbled. Many words were not in existing glossaries of Tupi. avarro spent decades compiling a comprehensive ancient
Tupi dictionary, which helped him fully translate the letters, revealing the desperate efforts of the Potiguara chiefs to save their people from destruction.

“Its hugely exciting to be able to make this contribution to the history of my country,” said Navarro.

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The Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time. The emissions amount to a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, according to a study. The giant forest had previously been a carbon sink, absorbing the emissions driving the climate crisis, but is now causing its acceleration, researchers said.

Most of the emissions are caused by fires, many deliberately set to clear land for beef and soy production. But even without fires, hotter temperatures and droughts mean the south-eastern Amazon has become a source of CO₂, rather than a sink.

Growing trees and plants have taken up about a quarter of all fossil fuel emissions since 1960, with the Amazon playing a major role as the largest tropical forest. Losing the Amazon’s power to capture CO₂ is a stark warning that slashing emissions from fossil fuels is more urgent than ever, scientists said.

The research used small planes to measure CO₂ levels up to 4,500 m above the forest over the last decade, showing how the whole Amazon is changing. Previous studies indicating the Amazon was becoming a source of CO₂ were based on satellite data, which can be hampered by cloud cover, or ground measurements of trees, which can cover only a tiny part of the vast region.

The scientists said the discovery that part of the Amazon was emitting carbon even without fires was particularly worrying. They said it was most likely the result of each year’s deforestation and fires making adjacent forests more susceptible the next year. The trees produce much of the region’s rain, so fewer trees means more severe droughts and heatwaves and more tree deaths and fires.

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243 million women and girls aged 15-49 have been subjected to sexual and/or physical violence perpetrated by an intimate partner in the previous 12 months. The number is likely to INCREASE as security, health, and money worries heighten tensions and strains are accentuated by cramped and confined living conditions. Emerging data shows that since the outbreak of COVID-19, violence against women and girls (VAWG), and particularly domestic violence, has INTENSIFIED. In France, reports of domestic violence have increased by 30% since the lockdown on March 17. In Cyprus and Singapore helplines have registered an increase in calls of 30% and 33%, respectively. In Argentina emergency calls for domestic violence cases have increased by 25% since the lockdown on March 20. Increased cases of domestic violence and demand for emergency shelter have also been reported in Canada, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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A woman suffering from a rare blood condition is on a quest to find her estranged biological father, who may enable her to get a potentially life-saving transplant if he donates his bone marrow.

Sarah Langdale, 32, was diagnosed with severe anemia when she was two.

This disease occurs when the body stops producing new enough blood cells. Patients with the condition are often fatigued and more prone to infections, as well as uncontrolled bleeding.

“I’m having blood transfusions every three weeks. I eventually started to lose my color and energy and I can´t do anything” Langdale told local news outlet Northampton Chronicle and Echo. Doctors have told her that she urgently needs a bone marrow transplant before her condition worsens.

“I really need my Dad to come forward, I’ve been looking hard for him. I`ll die without a transplant and I hope I can find a better match with him or my half-siblings. And I´m relying on someone seeing my story and coming forward with information. I can only live in hope.