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Psoriasis May Lead to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
A new study published in the April edition of the journal Archives of Dermatology concludes that...
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Drinking coffee could lower stroke risk for women
Boston/Berlin - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke,...
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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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Belly Fat Tied to Increased Risk for Restless Legs Syndrome
Excess fat around the waistline has long been blamed for increasing the risk of heart disease,...
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Rapid Weight Gain in Early Infancy Predisposes to Childhood Obesity
I am sure every mommy is happy to see her baby has a good appetite. Even more, they don’t...
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Adoption of Electronic Medical Records Going Slow in US Hospitals
According to a survey published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, only 9...
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Three out of Four Emergency Response Recruits Is either Overweight or Obese
A study by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Harvard...
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Religious Cancer Patients More Likely to Get Aggressive End-of-Life Care
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes that religious...
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Diabetes during Pregnancy Doubles the Risk for Postpartum Depression
Many studies have shown that some women are at increased risk of experiencing depression during...
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Scientists Make Astonishing Breakthrough in the Flight against Flu
Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in...
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Women Who Enjoy Coffee Have Lower Stroke Risk
Women who enjoy coffee on daily basis have a lower risk of stroke, according to a study to be...
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$100 million Gift for AIDS Institute
AIDS researchers hailed a $100 million gift from a Cambridge technology magnate that will create an...
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Can Animal Eggs Be Used to Create Embryonic Stem Cells?
A new study shows that animal eggs are not capable of reprogramming human DNA in the right way to...
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Stem Cell Research Moves Forward
As President Barack Obama is expected to lift federal restrictions on the field of stem cell...
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Genetics Has the Answer to Popularity
It's no surprise that there's a gene in congeniality. Apparently, how easy you make friends...
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Newer Antipsychotics Pose Heart Risk
The findings of a new study add to the growing number of studies criticizing the class of newer...
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In Vitro Fertilization Treatments, an Option to Reconsider for Women Under 35
A new study raises hopes for young couples who decide to choose in vitro fertilization. In the...
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Newer Antipsychotics Increase Heart Risk
The latest generation of antipsychotic drugs appears to be twice as likely to cause sudden...
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Surgeon’s Checklist May Reduce Surgical Errors
A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Two Existing Drugs May Help Obese People Lose Weight
Two drugs already approved by the Food and Drug Administration together with hormone leptin may...
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Study Warns about the Effects of Third-Hand Smoking
We all know that smoking is noxious for our health. The habit kills about 440,000 people a year....
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Study Shows that Vitamins Don’t Prevent Cancer
A new research pointed out that vitamin and carotene supplements do not inhibit cancer...
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Vitamins C and E Don’t Prevent Cancer in Women
A new study showed that the supplement forms of vitamins C and E don’t work as supposed. It...
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Even A Few Extra Pounds Increase Heart Failure Risk
Not only obese, but also overweight people are exposed to a higher risk of heart failure, compared...
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Obesity Is A Brain Issue
According to a new study published in Nature Genetics, it seems that obesity may partially be a...
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Vitamins Don’t Lower Prostate Cancer Risk, Studies Conclude
It’s time to forget about the saying “a vitamin a day keeps cancer away,” as more and more cancer...
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Happiness Is Just Like The Flu: Contagious
A study
that monitored 4,700 over a period of 20 years found that a person’s
neighbours’ or...
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Strangers’ Happiness Influences Yours
The United States are home to some of the oddest records, attractions and - more recently –...
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Happiness Definitely Has Its Benefits: Happy People Have More Happy Friends
Are friends happy being with you? If they
are, this is more than a sign that you have always...
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The Pill That Makes Jet Lag Vanish
An experimental drug promises to reset the body's internal clock and banish jet lag victims for...
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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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Restless Legs Syndrome Associated with Obesity
Having too much belly fat appears to be an increasing risk even for developing restless legs...
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New Flu Vaccine Based on Human Antibodies May Come in Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Coffee “Addicts” May Have Lower Risk of Stroke
Drinking two or more cups of coffee per day appears to reduce the risk for stroke among women,...
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Mass. Man Donates $100 M for AIDS Institute
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts General Hospital was donated $100 million to create an...
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Surgeon’s Checklist Could Reduce Surgical Errors
A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Simple Checklist Reduces Risk of Accidental Deaths in Surgery
Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
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New Obesity Treatment Discovered
One of the most widespread conditions in the United States is obesity. Except for being a...
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Vitamins Unable To Lower Cancer Risk
Beta carotene and vitamin C and E supplements failed in preventing cancer in women, the authors of...
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Vitamins C, E And Beta Carotene Don’t Prevent Cancer
New research shows that vitamin C and E supplements and beta carotene don't prevent cancer in...
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Research Shows No Benefit from Vitamin Supplements in Cancer Prevention
A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, adds to other studies...
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Happiness Is Just Like the Flu: Contagious
A study
that monitored 4,700 over a period of 20 years found that a person’s
neighbours’ or...
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Study: Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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New Harvard Research Investigates the Causes of Aging
Harvard Medical School scientists claim to have discovered a mechanism that may be the
universal...
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Genetic Screening for Diabetes No More Useful than Traditional Methods
Genetic testing to see someone’s predisposition to type 2 diabetes
is not significantly better...
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No Significant Difference between Genetic Testing, Traditional Methods in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes
The results of genetic testing for Type 2
diabetes are not significantly better than an assessment...
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US Chronically Ill Patients Complain More about Health Care
US
chronically ill patients often skip medical care due to high costs or medical
errors compared...
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Michael Crichton Passed Away
Michael Crichton passed away Tuesday, at the age of 66, after a long struggle with cancer. Michael...
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Michael Crichton Leaves Behind a World Covered in Science
Michael Crichton, a best-selling author and filmmaker whose
widely acclaimed and compelling novels...
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B Vitamins Don’t Fight Cancer
New research published in Tuesday’s Journal of the American
Medical Association comes to...
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Many U.S. Patients Dissatisfied with Their Pain Care
According to a national survey of patients’
experiences, patients in many U.S.
hospitals are not...
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Hesitant about Sharing Your Genes? Personal Genome Project Needs Volunteers
Those who are hesitant about publicly
sharing any part of their genome data, including medical...
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The Beginning of Personal Genome Project: Positive and Negative Aspects
Harvard Medical School genetics professor
George Church, Harvard psychology professor Steven...
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Harvard Gene Project Posts DNA Data of 10 Volunteers Online
Hoping to give medical research a big push forward, the Harvard University Medical School made the...
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Harvard's Personal Genome Project Set To Begin Soon
Harvard University’s Medical School is in preparations to
begin a research called the Personal...
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Coffee and Breast Cancer, Risks and Benefits
Moderate caffeine consumption, found in
coffee and other caffeinated beverages, was not...
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Drug-Coated Stent Safer For Heart Attack Patients
A news study in the Sept. 25 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine
gives more hope to heart...
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Fish-Oil Can Reduce Heart-Failure Mortality Rate
A study conducted by a team of 357 Italian cardiology
centers has found that omega-3...
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Boys More Likely than Girls to Beat Asthma by Adolescence
A study looking at the differences in the disease in both sexes revealed that boys are more likely...
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New Discovery Marks a Step Forward in Stem Cell Research
The team of scientists from Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts...
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New Flu Vaccine Based On Human Antibodies May Come In Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Newer Antipsychotics Double Heart Risks
The latest generation of antipsychotic drugs appears to be twice as likely to cause sudden...
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Study Says Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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Harvard Scientists Unravel The Secret Of Aging
As we get older, our health becomes our worst enemy. What’s
the secret of living a longer healthy...
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Study: Vitamin C, E Supplements Fail To Reduce Cancer Risk
A series of studies have lately shown that vitamins don’t reduce
cancer risk. Just two weeks ago,...
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Harvard Gene Project Posts DNA Data Of 10 Volunteers Online
Hoping to give medical research a big push forward, the Harvard University Medical School made the...
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Ig Nobel Prize Winners Know How To Make Potato Chips Sound Fresher
Each year, around the time when the Nobel Prize recipients
are announced, the Ig Nobel Prize...
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Update: Stem Cells Research Could Become Safer
Researchers took one more step toward so-called regenerative
medicine by developing a safer way of...
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Scientists Re-Create Fully Functional Human Blood Vessels In Mice
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US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure
A genetic research on more than 100 families prone to autism
by Harvard researchers shed new light...
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Serotonin Imbalance May Be Responsible for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
A study by Italian researchers may offer the answer to sudden infant death syndrome, the third...
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Smokers Quit in Groups
Dr. Nicholas Christakis of the Harvard Medical School and James Fowler of the University of...
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Jet Lag? Not Anymore! Simply Don't Eat!
Researchers for the Science journal have presented in the
May 23 issue a study about the causes...
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Drug Research May Suffer Significantly Due to Biodiversity Loss
Biodiversity loss and species extinction may lead to losing new
medical treatments for cancer,...
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