The centuries-old traditional Chinese medicine scraping (刮) massage, gua sha, has become a fashion among young people on the mainland who show off the bruises (淤青) it creates.
On the youth lifestyle social media platform, a young woman using the account name @hua posted pictures of herself wearing a T-shirt, in which she showed her bruises.
Many shared
The practice, also known as scraping and coining, is
The folk treatment
Some describe gua sha as “the Chinese way to cure the stress from the workplace” saying the pain and tears a session brings are
| A．In a hotel. | B．In a hospital. | C．In a classroom. |
| A．In the hospital. | B．At home. | C．At school. |
| A．A teacher. | B．A dentist. | C．A waiter. |
| A．In a hotel. | B．In a hospital. | C．In a classroom. |
6 . Researchers discovered a new function for a common protein in the brain—a development that throws new light on the mysteries of the mind and holds promising implications for the treatment of memory loss and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The protein, called RPT6, normally performs necessary housekeeping in the brain’s hippocampus (海马体) by working as part of a larger protein complex called the proteasome to destroy other proteins. But researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ School of Animal Sciences recently noticed this protein behaving in a previously undetected way.
“We have found that RPT6 is capable of this completely different function where it can combine with DNA and increase the expression of other genes or proteins during memory formation,” said Tim Jarome, associate professor of neurobiology. “This indicates that RPT6 plays a dual (双重的) role in memory formation, both inside and outside the proteasome complex.”
Gene expression is critical to memory formation. It helps to build the neural networks needed to form and strengthen memories. The discovery, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, opens up new avenues for exploration of how RPT6 functions in the brain and how it can be controlled to improve memory and reduce the harm of memory disorders like PTSD.
Researchers don’t yet understand why RPT6 has this dual function or how it is helping to control the cells that form a memory. “There has to be something else that’s working with it to control gene expression,” Jarome said. “We are trying to understand now how it’s doing that.”
Hopefully, the discovery will be helpful to the ongoing research in Jarome’s lab, which focuses on understanding and treating memory disorders.
“The discovery of RPT6’s new function is leading us somewhere new in revealing the complexities of the brain and how we learn and store memories,” said research scientist Kayla Farrell. “We believe that this will help to inform new directions into understanding how gene expression is controlled during memory. In the long term, this could lead to potential treatment of controlling and improving memory.”
1. What does Tim Jarome say about RPT6 in paragraph 3?| A．It is a new kind of protein. | B．It has little to do with DNA. |
| C．It can feed most of the cells. | D．It affects memory formation. |
| A．What contributes to RPT6’s dual function. |
| B．The role of gene expression in memory formation. |
| C．The discovery of RPT6’s dual function in the brain. |
| D．Whether RPT6 can increase the expression of other genes. |
| A．The brain is not complex to explore. |
| B．The finding is of great significance. |
| C．The new treatment of memory loss works. |
| D．The problem of storing memory is serious. |
| A．In a lab report. | B．In a chemistry textbook. |
| C．In a health magazine. | D．In a first aid brochure. |
7 . The Travel Doctor—Your Guide to Staying Healthy While You Travel
Review by Barb &.Ron Kroll
| Contents | |
| ★Part One—Before You Go ·Getting Ready ·The Common Sense Guide ·First Aid ·Medical Care Abroad ·Region-by-Region Guide ★Part Three—The World Around Us ·The Joys of Flight ·Motion Sickness ·Culture Shock ·Your Personal Safety ·The Sun Did It ·Into Thin Air-Altitude Sickness ·Snakes， Scorpions and Other Scary Creatures | ★Part Two—Infectious Concerns ·Pre travel Inoculation（提前接种） ·Traveller’s Diarrhea ·Malaria ·Other Insect-borne Diseases ·Sexually Transmitted Diseases ·A Few Other Concerns ★Part Four—Specific Concerns ·The Business Traveller ·Women and International Travel ·Let’s Take the Kids—The Young Travel le ·The Traveller with Medical Conditions ·Travelling to Adopt ★Part Five—Now That You’re Home ·Hey Doc, I’m Home |
| ★Sources of Information ★Index | |
Dr. Mark Wise’s book is a commonsense, comprehensive guide to health, whether travel is for business or pleasure.
Informal yet highly informative, readers will find plenty of basic medical information, as well as many checklists, guides and summaries.
Dr. Wise provides numerous tips: How to prevent altitude sickness. How to prevent sunburn. What to do if you’ve been bitten by a snake. How to treat a jellyfish sting. How you can avoid insect-borne diseases I like malaria.
A table Summary of Pre travel Inoculations covers diseases from hepatitis A (甲肝) to cholera (霍乱).It lists vaccines with course and duration for immunization (免疫).Cartoon sketches illustrate the travel health book.
Author
Mark Wise M.D. is a family doctor specializing in travel and tropical medicine. He has travelled to South America, Haiti, India, Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda. Dr. Wise is also a medical advisor to several non-governmental organizations and frequently lectures on travel health.
More information
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1. Where are the tips on avoiding different diseases mainly presented in the book?| A．In Part One. | B．In Part Two. | C．In Part Three. | D．In Part Four. |
| A． To increase his popularity. |
| B．To provide more tourism services. |
| C．To enhance the authority of this book. |
| D．To attract the attention of publishers. |
| A．A book review. | B．A medical paper. |
| C．A travel brochure. | D．An introduction to a doctor. |
8 . When patients are discharged (出院) from the hospital, effective summaries from doctors’ notes are essential to capture their health status in the medical record. Whereas, most are filled with technical languages that are hard to understand and increase patients’ anxiety.
To address the problem, researchers from New York University (NYU) Langone Health have been testing the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI). It tries to develop likely options for the next word in any sentence based on how most people use words in context on the Internet.
NYU Langone Health received access to the latest tool from a famous tech company to explore generative AI. One of the studies by the researchers published in JAMA Network Open, looked at how well the tool could convert (转换) the text in 50 patient discharge notes into patient-friendly language. Specifically, generative AI made the discharge notes drop from 11th-grade reading level on average to a 6th-grade level.
Two physicians were asked to review the AI discharge summary based on a 6th-grade level. The reviewing physicians awarded 54 percent of the AI-generated discharge notes the best-possible accuracy rating. They also found that 56 percent of notes created by AI were entirely complete. The result signified that even at the current performance level, providers of discharge notes would not have to make a single change in more than half of the AI summaries reviewed.
“That more than half of the AI reports generated are accurate and complete is an amazing start,” said Jonah Zaretsky, associate chief of medicine at NYU Langone Hospital — Brooklyn. “Even at the current level of performance, which we expect to improve shortly, the achievement of the AI tool suggests that it can be taught to recognize subtleties (微妙之处).”
Within the following years, the team expects to launch a pilot program to provide lay language discharge summaries that have been generated by AI and reviewed by physicians to patients on a larger scale.
1. What is generative AI used for by the researchers?| A．Submitting discharge summaries. | B．Accessing patients’ health status. |
| C．Making discharge notes clear to patients. | D．Offering technical languages to doctors. |
| A．Probable predicting. | B．Actual thinking. |
| C．Free imagining. | D．Strict instructing. |
| A．To correct their mistakes. | B．To measure their accuracy. |
| C．To compete with the AI tool. | D．To make up the missing parts. |
| A．Misleading. | B．Dismissive. | C．Challenging. | D．Promising. |
When Julia Harlin’s liver (肝) began failing several years ago as a result of a serious illness, her only option for survival was to get a liver transplant (移植).
Due to a long waiting list, Julia would need to wait months or years to find a person with a matching blood type, who’d like to donate his or her liver, as well as other medical characteristics—and as a senior citizen, time wasn’t exactly on her side.
“They basically told me, it would probably be at least five years, if not longer, before I would get the transplant,” Julia, 71, of Frederick, Maryland, recalled during an interview.
Despite having five children of her own, Julia said she did not want any of them to donate their liver to her “because then I would be worrying about them on top of worrying about myself”.
Without their mom’s knowledge, however, Julia’s daughter Eileen Harlin and her two other brothers and sister applied to donate their liver, which would reduce their mom’s wait time, although it would require a major surgery.
Eileen got the call that she was a match right before Mother’s Day. Deciding that Mother’s Day was the best time to tell her parents, Eileen began the conversation, “Hey, don’t get mad. For the past few months, I’ve been getting tested to see if I’m a match. And I am, and I want to do it.” The news was met with tears all around. Happy tears. How can you be mad when the daughter just said she was going to save her mom’s life? “It was emotional for sure,” Eileen shared.
The liver transplant was carried out successfully on Aug. 16, 2022, at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, according to a press release from the hospital. Unfortunately, Julia received additional bad news not long after the surgery. She was experiencing kidney (肾) failure due to the kidney damage.
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Julia’s doctors said that the condition required her to get a new kidney.
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______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| A．At home. | B．In a car. | C．In a hospital. |
