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Tai Chi Exercise Alleviates Knee Osteoarthritis Pain in Seniors

Researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine have determined that patients over 65 years of age with knee osteoarthritis (OA) who engage in regular Tai…

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Flu Season Insights: Protecting Pregnant Women and Babies

Pregnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side…

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New Model Enhances Predictions for Influenza Outbreaks

A new study by an international team of researchers, led by assistant professor Andrew W. Park, who holds a joint appointment in the University of Georgia Odum…

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Dendritic cells spark smoldering inflammation in smokers' lungs

What sparks that smoldering destruction remained a mystery until a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine found that certain dendritic…

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Diet and Gut Bacteria: Key to a Healthier Immune System

The indigestible part of all plant-based foods pushes its way through most of the digestive tract unchanged, acting as a kind of internal broom. When it…

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New Injectable Facial Filler Technique Enhances Comfort & Recovery

These and other benefits of a new injection technique that UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons are helping pioneer are outlined in the October…

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Consumer Electronics Can Help Improve Patient Health

The analysis of consumer health informatics, conducted by the Bloomberg School’s Evidence-based Practice Center for the Agency for Healthcare Research and…

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Propolis Benefits: Unlocking Health Through Natural Composition

The benefits of this product lies in its composition and, thus, its study, identification and subsequent extraction provides a useful tool which enables making…

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New Tool Targets Breast Tumors: Insights from Recent Study

In the August 2009 issue of the Annals of Surgical Oncology, Barth, an associate professor of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), and his…

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Unlocking Fish Oils: Boosting Health With Resolvin D2

In a paper published in Nature today*, researchers describe how the body converts an ingredient found in fish oils into another chemical called Resolvin D2 and…

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Disrupting Sleep Causes Problems for the Body and Brain

New research in mice now shows that throwing off natural circadian rhythms over the long term can seriously disturb the body and brain, causing weight gain and…

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Healthy Exercise Benefits for Lymphoma Patients Unveiled

The Healthy Exercise for Lymphoma Patients (HELP) trial, a three-year study led by Kerry Courneya, Canada Research Chair in physical activity and cancer in the…

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Physically active have reduced risk of prostate cancer

In 1997, over 45,000 Swedish men between the ages of 45 and 79 responded to a survey on lifestyles and degree of lifetime physical activity. Ten years on, the…

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Drug Therapies Linked to Bladder Cancer Risk: Study Insights

In her most recent study of possible triggers of cancer among northern New England residents, Dartmouth epidemiologist Margaret R. Karagas, Ph.D., and her team…

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Alcohol Linked to Tumor Cell Spread: Key Mechanisms Revealed

Alcohol consumption has long been linked to cancer and its spread, but the underlying mechanism has never been clear. Now, researchers at Rush University…

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Does diabetes speed up memory loss in Alzheimer's disease?

New research published in the October 27, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggests that those with…

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