Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

High BMI Linked to Increased Pancreatic Cancer Risk

In reviewing the weight history of pancreatic cancer patients across their life spans, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have…

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New Therapy Shows Promise in Preventing Heart Failure

MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) is a clinical trial that enrolled more than 1,800…

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Weight Differences in Type 1 and 2 Diabetes Among Youth

A major study of three to 19 year-olds has provided vital data on the weight problems faced by the growing number of children and young people with type 1…

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How Competition Fuelled Human Brain Growth Over Millennia

For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons for human brain expansion,…

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Global Health Funding Surges with Private Donor Support

Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding,…

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Policy Transparency Key to Saving World’s Fisheries

A new study provides the first global evaluation of how management practices influence fisheries’ sustainability. The study assessed the effectiveness of the…

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Prostate Cancer Breakthrough: Inoperable Patients Now Cancer-Free

Two Mayo Clinic patients whose prostate cancer had been considered inoperable are now cancer free thanks in part to an experimental drug therapy that was used…

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Drinking Fat-Free Milk at Breakfast Reduces Lunchtime Hunger

Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American…

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Validating Unconscious Bias: Study Confirms Test’s Accuracy

A new study published this week validates those findings, showing that the Implicit Association Test, a psychological tool, has validity in predicting behavior…

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CO2 Levels Reach New Highs: Insights from Recent Study

The study, in the June 19 issue of the journal Science, is the latest to rule out a drop in CO2 as the cause for earth's ice ages growing longer and more…

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Global Fertilizer Use Imbalances Impact Health and Environment

But the unintended costs to the environment and human health have been substantial. Nitrogen runoff from farms has contaminated surface and groundwater and…

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Parents Misdiagnose Milk Formula Intolerance, Study Finds

The team of researchers, led by Dr. Carol Lynn Berseth of Mead Johnson Nutrition, Indiana, USA, found that up to half of formula-fed infants experience a…

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Humans Share Common Ancestor With Orangutans, Study Finds

New evidence underscores the theory of human origin that suggests humans most likely share a common ancestor with orangutans, according to research from the…

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Anti-Consumption Movement: Nationalism’s Impact on Brands

A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the connection between nationalism and the anti-consumption movement in India.Authors Rohit Varman…

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Individual Monkeys Show Unique Variations in Intelligence

Scientists at Harvard University have shown, for the first time, that intelligence varies among individual monkeys within a species – in this case, the…

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'Cannabis alters human DNA' — new study

A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found “convincing evidence” that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially…

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