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 # Inflame
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-Inflam is a data management system written in Python that manages trial data used in clinical inflammation studies. 🫰
+Inflam is a data management system written in Python that manages trial data used in clinical inflammation studies.
 
 ## Main features
 Here are some key features of Inflam:
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 The following optional packages are required to run Inflam's unit tests:
 
 - [pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/) - Inflam's unit tests are written using pytest
-- [pytest-cov](https://pypi.org/project/pytest-cov/) - Adds test coverage stats to unit testing
+- [pytest-cov](https://pypi.org/project/pytest-cov/) - Add test coverage stats to unit testing