Marked by Stars: Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy By Anthony Grafton Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil water, witches transmit misery through optical darts, and numbers, arranged correctly, can harness the planets’ powers. Anthony Grafton explores the Renaissance polymath’s occult insights into […]

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by Florentia Vlachou, Despoina Iakovou, Jahnavi Daru, Rehan Khan, Litha Pepas, Siobhan Quenby, Stamatina Iliodromiti Background Evidence suggests common pathways between pregnancy losses and subsequent long-term maternal morbidity, rendering pregnancy complications an early chronic disease marker. There is a plethora of studies exploring associations between miscarriage and stillbirth with long-term adverse maternal health; however, these […]

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by Daniel D. Hodgkiss, Gurjeet S. Bhangu, Carole Lunny, Catherine R. Jutzeler, Shin-Yi Chiou, Matthias Walter, Samuel J. E. Lucas, Andrei V. Krassioukov, Tom E. Nightingale Background A low level of cardiorespiratory fitness [CRF; defined as peak oxygen uptake (V˙O2peak) or peak power output (PPO)] is a widely reported consequence of spinal cord injury (SCI) […]

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by Radhika Gharpure, Anna N. Chard, Maria Cabrera Escobar, Weigong Zhou, Molly M. Valleau, Tat S. Yau, Joseph S. Bresee, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Sarah W. Pallas, Kathryn E. Lafond Background Historically, lack of data on cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination has been identified as a barrier to vaccine use in low- and middle-income countries. We conducted a […]

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