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VSL#3 Probiotics Target Specific GI Issues for Better Health

As clinical studies continue to validate the use of probiotics to help promote general gastrointestinal health, a growing U.S. market1 for probiotics indicates…

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Bacteria Responsible for Middle Ear Infections, Pink Eye and Sinusitis May Protect Themselves by Stealing Immune Molecules

When the body senses an infection, one of the first lines of defense is to send immune molecules called host-derived antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) to target…

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Global Commission Delivers Food Security Policy Recommendations

The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change today released a Summary for Policy Makers that recommends crucial policy responses to the global…

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Scientist Eyeing Enzymes That Could Help Fight Flu

Bumsuk Hahm, PhD, and his colleagues at MU have received a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine how the enzymes influence the…

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Simple Tests Offer New Hope for Young Leukemia Patients

The development of simple tests to predict a leukemic relapse in young patients is a step closer thanks to researchers from the Sainte-Justine University…

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Probiotic May Shield Intestines from Radiation Injury

The new study suggests that taking a probiotic also may help cancer patients avoid intestinal injury, a common problem in those receiving radiation therapy for…

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Blood Test Surpasses Imaging for Detecting Heart Disease

A blood-based gene expression test was found to be more effective for ruling out obstructive coronary artery disease in stable symptomatic patients than…

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Beer and Heart Health: New Study Highlights Positive Effects

Beer could stand up alongside wine regarding positive effects on cardiovascular health. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by Research Laboratories at…

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Long-Term Antiepileptic Drugs May Raise Vascular Risk

New research reveals that patients with epilepsy who were treated for extended periods with older generation antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may be at increased…

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Popular whole-body-vibration exercise: not an effective therapy for the prevention of bone loss

The study entitled, “Effects of 12 Months of Whole-Body Vibration (WBV) on Bone Density and Structure in Postmenopausal Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial”,…

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Study Confirms Smoke-Free Workplaces Cut Heart Attacks by Half

Their research shows that the incidence of heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths was cut in half among Olmsted County, Minn., residents after a smoke-free…

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'Stomach flu' may be linked to food allergies

Mitchell H. Grayson, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, medicine, microbiology and molecular genetics at the Medical College, and a pediatric allergist…

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Researchers uncover why the body can't defend against tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, which kills over 2 million people each year, is caused primarily by infectious bacteria known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis – or Mtb. Mtb targets…

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Tumor Factors That May Block Metastasis: New Insights

In a recent issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Raúl A. Ruggiero, Ph.D., a biological researcher at the…

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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Patients Thrive Into Their 90s

HCM is the most common cause of sudden death in the young, but survival to a particularly advanced age is less well understood. “In the past, this disease has…

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Tamoxifen resistance — and how to defeat it

In the last three decades, thousands of women with breast cancer have taken the drug tamoxifen, only to discover that the therapy doesn't work, either because…

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