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Meth Exposure during Pregnancy Predisposes Kids to Abnormal Brain Development
Methamphetamine use during pregnancy may cause abnormal brain development in children, according to...
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Brown Fat May Help People Fight Obesity
How many times have you heard your friends complaining of being fat? Or how many times you wished...
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Elan, Wyeth Stop Trial Using the Highest Dose of Alzheimer’s Drug
Drugmaker Elan and US partner Wyeth announced Thursday they have stopped part of a Phase III...
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Thinning of Brain’s Cortex Tied to Depression Risk
Brain scans performed on 131 people of different ages revealed that there was a 28 percent...
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Cephalon’s Narcolepsy Drug Provigil Could Be Addictive
Cephalon’s narcolepsy drug Provigil, highly used as a so-called “smart drug” by...
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Radiation Exposure via Medical Scans on the Rise in the US
A new report from the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements notes that...
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Brain-training Exercises Don’t Delay Alzheimer’s Onset
A new study says that there is no evidence to support the theory that brain exercise programmes...
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Radiation Exposure from CT Scans Should Be Reduced
Radiation dose during CT scans used to diagnose heart and vascular disease is a concern for many...
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Cardiac Scans Should Be Recommended With Caution, Radiation Risk
An advisory committee convened by the American Heart Association’s Council on Clinical...
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Women Can’t Say No to Their Favourite Food!
Men often find it easier than women to say no to food, according to a brain-imaging study. The...
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Women Are Weaker Than Men When It Comes To Favorite Foods
Scientists have discovered that when it comes to favorite foods, women can hardly say no. On the...
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Men Better Than Women In Resisting Food Temptations
When it comes to goodies, who in the world can resist temptations? Apparently, men are able...
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Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Brain Shrinkage
Estrogen hormone therapy, a treatment given to alleviate some symptoms of menopause, may shrink...
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Study: More Sleep May Help Keep Heart Disease Away
A good night sleep helps keep heart disease away. According to a new study, sleeping an...
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Sleep Deprivation Increases Heart Disease Risk
The connection between skipping sleep and heart problems is much stronger than thought, according...
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Colonoscopy Is Less Effective Than it Was Generally Believed
A Canadian study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine had concluded that the common test,...
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Gene Mutation Keeps Some People Away from Heart Disease
The presence of a gene mutation in the human body appears to lower levels of “bad” cholesterol and...
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New Health Program Asks Better Screening for Veteran’s Brain Injury
A new program released through a government report asks the military to do better brain scans on...
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Patients Photos Added to CT Scans Improve Readings
A study presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the
Radiological Society of North America, in...
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Study: CT Scans - an Alternative to Angiography, but Questions Persist
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that newer CT scans that use...
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CT Scans Unreliable as Heart Test
Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that even though Medicare, the United...
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CT Scans Nearly As Accurate As Angiography
New research published in this week’s New England Journal of
Medicine reveals that noninvasive CT...
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Study: It’s in Their Brains, Bullies Like to Watch Suffering
A new study on brain activity shows that the brains of aggressive youths may be wired to feel...
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Study Shows Fibromyalgia Is a “Real Disease,” Related to Brain Dysfunction
According to a new brain scan study,
fibromyalgia may be related to a dysfunction of cerebral...
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Overweight People Find Sweets Less Satisfying
Overweight people actually don’t enjoy
eating fatty food and sweets, a brain study found. The...
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Update: Believe It Or Not, Obese People Enjoy Food Less
In Friday's issue of the journal Science, psychology researchers in Texas, Oregon and Connecticut...
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Lower Vitamin B12 Levels Linked to Brain Atrophy
University
of Oxford researchers
discovered that vitamin B12 found in meat, fish, fortified...
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MRI Is No Longer The First Choice in Case of Breast Cancer
Apparently the use of breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans to evaluate cancer after it had...
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Treadmill Exercise Can Improve Walking In Stroke Survivors
Exercising on treadmill helped stroke survivors improve their mobility and physical conditioning by...
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PET Scans Are the Best Alzheimer’s Detectors
The positron
emission tomography (PET) scanning turned out to be a useful way of diagnosing
the...
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Specials
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Brown Fat Makes You Slimmer
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that adults still have a type of fat that...
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Radiation Exposure for Americans Is 7 Times Higher
A recent study revealed the staggering fact that the radiation levels to which American citizens...
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True Love Can Last Forever, New Study Says
Does true love last forever? A new study comes to support the old saying “Love never gets...
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Lack of Sleep Tied to Heart Disease
It has long been known that not getting enough sleep might get your heart into trouble literally....
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Lack Of Sleep Associated With Heart Disease
Researchers found a link between lack of sleep and heart disease, according to a report published...
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Gene Mutation Protects against Heart Damage
The presence of a gene mutation in the human body appears to lower levels of “bad” cholesterol and...
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CT Scans Accurate in Spotting Blocked Arteries
Non-invasive CT scans proved to be as good as conventional angiography at spotting blocked arteries...
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Study Shows Bullies Like Suffering
A recent study, published by the journal of Biological Psychology, shows that youths which are...
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Update: New Trojan Exploits Microsoft Bug
Tuesday,
Microsoft Corporation released an emergency security update more than
two weeks ahead of...
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Obesity Is in Your Genes and...Brain!
Eating too much to simply satisfy your pleasure for food?
Then you’re probably one of those people...
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Food Doesn’t Satisfy Obese People
Individuals whose brains don’t produce pleasure while eating will overeat in order to obtain it,...
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How Does Gene Testing Influence Lifestyle Habits?
A 20-year, landmark study involving 10,000
participants, funded by a research group and three...
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PET Scans Could Detect Alzheimer’s Brain Plaques
Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a method of medical
imaging, appears to be a successful...
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Homosexuality - Something You Are Born With?
Believe it or not, homosexuality is not only a matter of
choice but also something very well...
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“Ethereal” French Music May Be World’s Oldest Recording
A 10-second clip of a woman singing a French folk song in
1860 may be the world’s first recording...
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Tutankhamun’s Face On Public Display
The face of the famous pharaoh Tutankhamun was presented to
the public in an exhibition that took...
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