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An inexpensive type of portable filter efficiently screened SARS-CoV-2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air.

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Compaing associations of early life changes in body lean mass and handgrip strength vs. body fat mass with atherogenic traits in the young.

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Alternative approaches to treating obesity and associated comorbidities have been proposed wherein weight loss is not the primary endpoint.

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