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Autistic Kids Display Common Genetic Variations
Researchers have long blamed genetics for autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) but no study...
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Do You Know What Diet To Follow?
Following a diet is not easy, especially if you choose it on your own. Why? Simply: because people...
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Women Fertility May One Day Be Restored through Stem Cell Treatment
Reporting in the journal Nature Cell Biology, Chinese scientists suggest that women may one day be...
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Acid Reflux Drugs Do Not Improve Asthma
A new study in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine suggests that treating...
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Ventricular Reconstruction No Better Than Bypass Alone in Heart Failure
Ventricular reconstruction to improve symptoms in people with heart failure, a procedure often...
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Viral infections carry lingering heart risks
Exercise usually helps strengthen the heart but after a bout of flu or another viral...
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Lowering Blood Glucose Levels in Critically Ill Patients Might Kill Them
A new study reported online March 24 in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that lowering...
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Many Americans Lack Vitamin D, Study Shows
Vitamin D levels have dramatically decreased among Americans over the last two decades, according...
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Eat Less Red or Processed Meat! Live Longer!
Eating too much red meat might put you at risk of dying early from cancer, heart disease and...
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Pediatrician Agrees to Stop Practicing Following Abuse Charges
A former Children’s Hospital Boston pediatrician accused last year of sexually abusing as...
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Is PSA Test Really Important for Prostate Cancer Prevention?
Many studies have tried to find an answer to this question, but the majority of them ended in...
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It’s All About Calories
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center...
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Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB
Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
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Women Should Drink Milk, Not Alcohol
Women who have just one alcoholic drink each day increase their risk of cancer, according to a new...
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Calcium May Lower Digestive Cancer Risk
People with the highest levels of calcium intake had significantly fewer cancers of the digestive...
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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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Discovery May Offer New Targets for Drug Development to Slow Alzheimer’s
Researchers at Genentech of South San Francisco and the Salk Institute of La Jolla have...
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Court Finds That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism
A special court ruling that there is no connection between autism and some specific childhood...
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Most Advertised Cigarette Brands Also On Top of Teenagers’ Preferences
The most heavily advertized brands of cigarettes, Marlboro, Newport and Camel also seem to be on...
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The Excessive Presence of B-Cell Clones Signals an Increased Risk of Common Leukemia
A new study conducted by Maryland’s National Cancer Institute finds a connection between the...
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Breast Cancer Risk Drops after the End of Hormone Replacement Therapy
According to a new study, women that follow HRT, or hormone-replacing therapy, have an increased...
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Hormone Therapy – Breast Cancer Link Once Again Confirmed
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms once again the link between hormone...
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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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Stem Cells Are Offered New Grants, Despite Their Being Delayed
San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, UCSF, Stanford University, the J. David Gladstone...
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Weight Loss Improves Urinary Incontinence In Women
Doctors often advise patients to lose weight if they’re at risk of developing certain...
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Moms’ C-section Complications On The Rise
C-section has long been thought to have consequences on newborns’ health, especially those...
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Wyeth Vaccine Helped Slash Pneumococcal Meningitis Rates
Pneumococcal meningitis rates have declined substantially since a new vaccine was introduced in...
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Nation’s Largest Lab Company Admits Error in Vitamin D Tests
Quest Diagnostics Inc. of Madison, N.J., the nations’ largest lab company, provided...
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An Early C-Section Is Definitely Not The Best Choice
According to a new study, early elective cesarean sections pose serious risks to newborns. The...
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C-Sections Increases Risks For Babies If Done Before Term
Cesarean delivery appears to increase the risk of an adverse neonatal outcome by 50 percent...
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Specials
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Epilepsy Drug Could Impair Your Baby’s Cognitive Function
The use of anti-seizure drug valproate while pregnant may cause your baby harm, US researchers said...
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Male Circumcision May Prevent Two Common STDs
Male circumcision appears to offer more protection to men than previously estimated, according to...
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Want to Lose Weight? It’s All about Calories!
When it comes to losing weight everyone is an expert. Everyone, and here I mean women, knows at...
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Study: Women Should Drink Milk, Not Alcohol
Women who have just one alcoholic drink each day increase their risk of cancer, according to a new...
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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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Willem J. Kolff, ‘Father Of The Artificial Organ’ Dies
Dr. Willem J. Kolff, the man behind the first artificial kidney and several other devices that...
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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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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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Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors
A series of reports done on the medical field have revealed
serious medical errors....
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Medical Residents Need a Sleep-Break after 16 Hours of Work
Medical residents should work no longer than 16 hours in a row without a five-hour break for sleep...
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Experts Recommend More Sleep for Medical Residents
A panel of
experts at the Institute of Medicine issued a recommendation to medical
residents...
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Vitamin D Protects Your Heart
Scientists are in a continuous researching process, in order to aid mankind in its fight against...
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Chemical In Our Stomach Might Help Us Fight Obesity
As more and more people suffer from obesity and,
consequently, obesity-related diseases,...
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Families Resolve Conflicts On Therapist's Couch
Berlin - Families grow from one generation to the next and frequently pass some problems along in...
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Blame Your Boss For Your Heart Attack!
Employees who say their bosses are inconsiderate and uncommunicative are more susceptible to heart...
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Crestor Can Detect Risks Of Heart Attack
A cholesterol-lowering statin drug administered to people who have normal cholesterol can cut their...
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Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Crestor Benefic for Healthy People As Well
Statins of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been known to
reduce heart risk in people with...
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Scientists Finally Decode Cancer Genome
Using DNA mapping, researchers have finally traced cancer to its genetic roots, according to a...
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Daylight Saving Time Triggers Heart Attack
Heart attack rates appear to be increasing during the daylight saving time according to a study by...
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Talk Therapy Plus Antidepressant - Best Treatment For Child Anxiety
Separation anxiety, social phobia and generalized anxiety in
children can be effectively treated...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Could Double Risk of Heart Attack
Three studies scheduled to be presented this week at the
American College of Rheumatology's annual...
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US Researchers ID 26 Genes Responsible For Lung Cancer
US
researchers have identified 26 genes that are frequently mutated in people who
develop...
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European Scientists Find New Source Of Stem Cells: Human Testes
European researchers made a huge step in stem cell research
by converting cells from human...
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The Nobel Prize Rekindles 25 Years Old Controversy
On Monday, the
Nobel committee awarded the famous prize to Dr. Luc Montagnier, a...
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German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries
Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
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High Blood Pressure Conference: Learn To Deal With Your Blood Pressure
The American Heart Association’s Conference of the Council
for High Blood Pressure Research held...
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Which Part Will McCain Play In Stem Cell Research?
Several Wisconsin top stem-cell researchers, advocates, as well as industry leaders, voiced concern...
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Update: A Healthy Lifestyle Delays Aging Process
Researchers have long stressed the importance of living a healthy life based on daily exercise and...
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Update: Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis
If people suffering from osteoarthritis were looking at arthroscopic knee surgery as their...
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Science
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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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Researchers Will Test Breast Cancer Vaccine
Good news for cancer fighters all around the world! Scientists at the University of Arkansas for...
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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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Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism
Children living in regions with higher levels of annual
rainfall may be more predisposed to...
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Internet genome scans are both popular and controversial in US
Washington - Some people who want their genome scanned are only worried about what their hair will...
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European Scientists Find New Source Of Stem Cells
European researchers made a huge step in stem cell research
by converting cells from human...
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Nobel Medicine Prize Goes To Three European Scientists
The 2008 Nobel Prize
for medicine was awarded on Monday. Two French scientists who discovered...
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Men, Keep Cell Phones Away From Your Pants To Avoid Infertility!
Cell phone radiation has been linked to a series of health
problems in recent years, from...
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Kids Head To Inactivity By Age 15, New Study Shows
As kids grow from pre-pubescence into teens, their rate of
physical activity starts declining...
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Melanoma Cases On The Rise Among Younger Women
Researchers browsing through the cases of melanoma, the
deadliest form of skin cancer, found that...
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Write Down Everything You Eat, A Method To Lose More Weight
People writing down what they eat every day lose on average
twice as much weight as those who...
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Study: Melanoma Cured 100% through Blood Cell Therapy
The results of a new study conducted by a research team at
the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...
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California Awards $271M in Stem Cell Grants
California has approved funding worth $271 million in total to create twelve stem cell research...
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Scientific World Loses Genetics Pioneer Joshua Lederberg, 82
Scientific world has lost Joshua Lederberg, University
Professor and president emeritus of the...
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Lab Announces Breakthrough In Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Scientists at the Advanced Cell
Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced on Thursday that...
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Americans Warned Not to Vote a Leader Who Doubts Evolution
Just a day after ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee won in Iowa in the first stage of choosing...
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Scientists Have Created First Primate Cloned Embryos
Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University have created for the first time cloned...
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