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Discovery Targets, Kills Tumors

“This study represents the first example of the benefits of employing a cooperative nanosystem to fight cancer,” said Michael Sailor, a professor of chemistry…

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Study Reveals No Rise in Antibiotic-Resistant Meningococci

But now a study from Örebro University and Örebro University Hospital in Sweden shows that there has not been any increase in resistant meningococci in Sweden…

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New Web Tool May Help Predict Risk of Second Stroke

“This is an important new tool because studies show that people who have a second stroke soon after a first stroke are more likely to die or have severe…

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Moderate Fish Consumption May Lower Risk in Patients with a History of Heart Failure

Researchers from the University of Athens in Greece focused on demographical, nutritional, lifestyle, and medical factors combined with the risk of developing…

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Boost Wound Healing with Water-Filtered Infrared-A Therapy

wIRA increases tissue temperature (+2.7°C at a tissue depth of 2 cm), tissue oxygen partial pressure (+32% at a tissue depth of 2 cm) and tissue perfusion….

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New Toolkit Helps Combat Winter Influenza Cases

As communities brace for rising wintertime influenza cases, scientists are developing a mathematical and visual analytic toolkit to help health officials…

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Canadian First: New Cardiac Pacemaker Implantation at MHI

The electrophysiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) recently performed the first implantation of a new type of cardiac pacemaker (Accent RF™) in…

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Researchers find high leptin levels may protect against Alzheimer's disease and dementia

Dementia is increasingly recognized as a life-course illness where a variety of lifestyle choices interact with genetic, vascular and other risk factors to…

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Mastering Physical Goals Reduces Disease-Related Depression

A new study indicates that this effect may stem from an individual’s sense of mastery over – or belief in his or her ability to achieve – certain physical…

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Hebrew U. Secures $5M for Visceral Leishmaniasis Research

The project will be led by Prof. Alon Warburg, a vector biologist working at the Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada at the Hebrew University's Faculty…

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Nitric Oxide Shows Promise in Septic Shock Research

By inducing the release of nitric oxide (NO) gas in mice with septic shock, researchers Anje Cauwels and Peter Brouckaert discovered that the animal's organs…

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Immunological Insights on Severe H1N1 Outcomes in Patients

The study analyzed different levels of regulating molecules for 20 hospitalized patients, 15 outpatients and 15 control subjects in 10 Spanish hospitals during…

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Low Cholesterol Transfer Protein Linked to Heart Disease Risk

Scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University and Boston University School of Medicine found an…

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Brain plaques in healthy individuals linked to increased Alzheimer's risk

Now, for the first time, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have shown that brain plaques in apparently healthy individuals are associated with…

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Master Gene Math1 Guides Neural Networks for Body Awareness

Math1 is a master hub for the genes that control various parts of neural networks for hearing, balance, the unconscious sense of one's position in space called…

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New Insights on Brain Enzyme Sirt1 for Obesity Treatment

But researchers from Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that Sirt1 in the brain…

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