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Virtual Food Stress: Insights from Eating Disorder Research

Alessandra Gorini from the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, worked with an international team of researchers to compare the effects of the exposure…

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Personalized Smoking Cessation: A 3-5 Year Outlook

“Within three to five years, it's conceivable we'll have a practical test that could take the guesswork out of choosing a smoking-cessation therapy,” says Jed…

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New Antibiotic Prophylaxis Method Using Nutrition Catheter

The method, presented in the British Medical Journal, has been clinically tested on over 200 patients at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm…

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How Treating Tongue Tie Improves Breastfeeding Success

Called a tongue tie, the problem occurs when the connective tissue under the tongue is too tight. A tongue tie can hinder some newborns from being able to…

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Stem Cell Transplants Show Promise for Chronic Leukemia Patients

About 15,000 new CLL cases were diagnosed in the United States in 2009 and about 4,000 deaths were documented (according to the American Cancer Society). While…

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Sensor-Augmented Insulin Pumps Improve Blood Sugar Control

The paper is entitled, Effectiveness of Sensor-Augmented Insulin-Pump therapy in Type 1 Diabetes. “Combining the best technologies for insulin delivery and…

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UGA’s New Temperature Table Aims to Prevent Heat-Related Deaths

Now, a team of researchers at the University of Georgia has developed an easy-to-use table of vehicle temperature changes that may help public officials and…

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Weighing Benefits and Risks of Intensive Glucose Lowering

In an analysis from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial, one of the largest studies of its kind to determine whether intensive…

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Depressed Mice Model Aims to Tackle Drug-Resistant Depression

The mice — which have a defect in a gene — are expected to be useful as a new model organism in the effort to develop more effective medications for specific…

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Noninvasive Blood Test Could Transform Early Pregnancy Diagnostics

Dr Suzanna Frints, a clinical geneticist at Maastricht University Medical Centre (Maastricht, The Netherlands), will tell the 26th annual meeting of the…

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Knee Surgery Fails to Reduce Osteoarthritis Risk, Study Finds

A decade after the initial injuries were diagnosed using MRI, localized knee osteoarthritis was evident in patients, regardless of whether or not the injuries…

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Lower Back Pain Surgery: Insights from Recent Literature Review

A literature review, led by Dr. Joseph Lee, published in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS) suggests…

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New Formula Accurately Calculates Peak Heart Rate for Women

Women who measure their peak heart rates for exercise will need to do some new math as will physicians giving stress tests to patients.A new formula based on a…

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New Conservation Methods Linked to Higher Food Poisoning Risk

“In my studies I saw that a small amount of acetic acid caused the bacteria to become stressed, which meant they reacted by producing more toxin. However, if a…

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Statins May Lower Cancer Recurrence After Prostatectomy

The findings are published in the journal CANCER. “The findings add another layer of evidence suggesting that statins may have an important role in slowing the…

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Serotonin and Protein: New Insights into Gestational Diabetes

The surprise discovery could lead to simple dietary solutions and possible therapeutics for the disorder known as gestational diabetes, which if untreated, has…

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