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How Leisure Choice Enhances Well-Being for People with Autism

“For many of us, we look at recreation as a time to spend on activities that are fun and that are designed for our enjoyment,” said John Dattilo, professor,…

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Vitamin D’s Role in Lung Cancer Survival: New Study Insights

Recent research suggests vitamin D may be able to stop or prevent cancer. Now, a new study finds an enzyme that plays a role in metabolizing vitamin D can…

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Simple Blood Test Reduces Heart Failure Hospital Readmissions

In a study reported online by the American Journal of Cardiology, Henry J. Michtalik, M.D., M.P.H., and his colleagues tested heart failure patients on…

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Watchful waiting no longer recommended for some high-risk Barrett's esophagus patients

Endoscopic removal of pre-cancerous cells in patients with confirmed, high-risk Barrett's esophagus is recommended rather than surveillance, according to a new…

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How Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Boosts Quality of Life Post-Depression

Nearly 14 percent of Americans suffer from chronic sinusitis and may have the following symptoms for 12 weeks or more; facial pain/pressure, facial…

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Lymph Node Dissection May Be Unneeded in Early Lung Cancers

Lymph node dissection, the current standard surgical treatment for localized non-small cell lung cancers, may be unnecessary in certain screen-detected early…

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MIT– parts of brain can switch functions

When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate…

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Forsyth Team Unveils Insights on Childhood Dental Disease

Researchers at The Forsyth Institute have made a significant discovery about the nature of childhood dental disease. The scientific studies led by Anne Tanner,…

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Newborn Heart Muscle Can Grow Back by Itself

Researchers, working with mice, found that a portion of the heart removed during the first week after birth grew back wholly and correctly – as if nothing had…

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Researchers discover how ‘dangerous’ mercury enters into atmosphere and ultimately into fish we eat

The researchers, Prof. Menachem Luria from the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University and Dr. Daniel Obrist of the…

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Hashimoto's thyroiditis can affect quality of life

Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), an inflammatory disorder of the thyroid, is the most common cause of hypothyroidism, but a study has suggested that even when…

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Heparin’s Role in Allergies and Inflammation Explained

Heparin has a long history at Karolinska Institutet, since here the substance was originally purified and its chemical structure was characterized back in 1935…

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Costly Adverse Drug Events: UBC Research Insights

Patients who suffer an adverse medical event arising from the use or misuse of medications are more costly to the health care system than other emergency…

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Zoledronic Acid: New Hope in Early Lung Cancer Treatment

A drug that is currently used to help treat bone metastases in patients with lung cancer could also be useful at an earlier stage of treatment, to prevent the…

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New Test Quickly Identifies Aggressive Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers

An inexpensive and rapid testing method can effectively identify a sub-group of never-smoking lung cancer patients whose tumors express a molecule associated…

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Missing Sugar Molecule Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk

The findings are published in the Feb. 24 online edition of The FASEB Journal, a publication of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology. Corresponding study author, Jane J. Kim is an assistant professor in the UCSD Department of Pediatrics and a member of the Pediatric Diabetes Research Center and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, a research and teaching affiliate of the UCSD School of Medicine. Kim said the findings represent the first documented evidence linking the sugar production to insulin and glucose metabolism problems associated with diabetes. …

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