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Breast Cancer Cells Adapt to Environmental Stress: New Insights

The findings, published today in Genes and Development (http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gad.1987211), show how breast cancer cells can thrive when…

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Rochester Researchers Share New Autism Insights at IMFAR

Much about autism is unknown, but researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) are working to learn more about the neurodevelopmental…

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Chiropractic Manipulation: Low Risk of Chest Injury Confirmed

Dynamic chest compression occurs during spinal manipulation. While dynamic chest compression has been well studied in events such as motor vehicle collisions,…

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Sound safety

Engineers investigating “listener fatigue”– the discomfort and pain some people experience while using in-ear headphones, hearing aids, and other devices that…

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Findings could lead to a blood test for lung cancer

The findings could lead to a blood test for lung cancer, according to a researcher with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James…

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Exploring The Impact of Placebos in Modern Medicine

They may be uncomfortable talking about it, but it's definitely going on. A recent survey, led by McGill Psychiatry Professor and Senior Lady Davis Institute…

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Marriage problems related to infants' sleep difficulties

Specifically, researchers found that marital instability when the child was ninth months old was related to child sleep problems at 18 months, including…

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Enhancing Health: Training Insights for Physiotherapists

In order to be able to devise training programs properly, physiotherapists and medical experts require detailed information on the progress of muscle build-up,…

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New Method to Examine Major Depressive Disorder in Kids

MDD is a common, debilitating disease prevalent in childhood and adolescence. Examination of cortical thickness in patients with MDD has not been widely…

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New Model Enhances Global Access to Combination Vaccines

Combination vaccines for young children are commonly used in industrialized nations because they provide protection for multiple diseases in one single…

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Columbia Engineers Create New Method for Diagnosing Heart Arrhythmias

Abnormalities in cardiac conduction, the rate at which the heart conducts electrical impulses to contract and relax, are a major cause of death and disability…

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New Test Offers Hope for Improved Life in SLE Patients

Together with rheumatologists, researchers at Lund University in Sweden are on the way to developing a new test that could resolve a number of question marks…

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Short Antibiotic Courses Safer for Kids’ Respiratory Infections

Short courses of antibiotics appear just as effective as longer ones — and a great deal safer — in treating respiratory infections that might cause pneumonia…

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New Tool Assesses Asthma-Related Anxiety in Children

When children or adolescents with asthma and their parents become overly anxious about the disorder, it may impair their ability to manage the asthma…

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‘Bad’ Cholesterol Not As Bad As People Think, Shows Texas A&M Study

Steve Riechman, a researcher in the Department of Health and Kinesiology, says the study reveals that LDL is not the evil Darth Vader of health it has been…

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Sonography Enhances Detection of Juvenile Arthritis in Children

Early detection and treatment of active arthritis may avert long term joint damage and disability. Research has shown that sonography with power Doppler can…

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