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Gene-Blocking Innovations Target Viral Disease Treatments

It has been possible for many years to protect against some viral diseases such as polio in advance by vaccination, but there is still no effective treatment…

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Fruit Juice Consumption Linked to Healthy Weight in Kids

The statistics about overweight children are alarming. Over the past 20 years, there has been an increased prevalence of overweight and at-risk-for overweight…

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Sea Buckthorn: A Natural Defense Against Liver Damage

Indigineous to the mountainous regions of China and Russia, sea buckthorn has been shown to be rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, flavonoids and essential fatty…

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TU Delft’s Flame Robot Mimics Human Walking Elegantly

If you try to teach a robot to walk, you will discover just how complex an activity it is. Walking robots have been around since the seventies. The applied…

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Vitamin B6 Status Trends in U.S. Population Sample

Plasma PLP is the indicator used by the federal government to set the current Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of vitamin B6, a nutrient essential for red…

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When Memories Fade: Trust and Reality in Today’s World

But people tell you that you are in hospital, that you have been in hospital for weeks, and that you didn’t go to a wedding yesterday at all. The experience of…

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Exploring Spelling Difficulties: Insights from Recent Research

In a paper to be published in Cortex , Eglinton and Annett show that this subgroup of poor spellers is more likely to be right handed than other poor spellers….

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A research on “craving” or the intense desire for tobacco establishes the bases for addiction control

Miguel Ángel Muñoz García, from the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada has carried out this study,…

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First Evidence-Based Definition of Lifelong Premature Ejaculation

The results of their in-depth study, conducted by the Standards Committee of the international Society for Sexual Medicine, have just been published online by…

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Local Cancer Research Gains Momentum with New Fellowships

In its latest round of awards, which brings the number of university research fellowships supported by the charity to 16, HOPE selected three projects that…

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Tracking influenza's every movement

Neither, it turns out. The virus’s breeding grounds are in Asia, a crew of virus-hunters has found, and it then teems out to take over the world anew each…

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New Treatment Slows Progression of Pulmonary Fibrosis

In a Phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, the investigators discovered that a daily dose of pirfenidone could slow the progression of…

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Personalized Therapy for Asthma and COPD on the Horizon

“We've cracked the first part of the molecular code that links a viral infection to the later development of chronic inflammatory diseases like asthma and…

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Global Menopause Summit Confirms HRT Is Safe for Women

The Zürich Summit was attended by global experts in menopause and related issues. It reviewed the evidence on the safety, risks and benefits of HRT in the…

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Herbal Extract Thymoquinone Targets Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer at Jefferson in Philadelphia have found that thymoquinone, an extract of nigella sativa seed oil, blocked pancreatic cancer…

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Early Detection: Most Kidney Cancers Diagnosed Promptly

Christopher J. Kane, M.D., chief of urology at UC San Diego Medical Center and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, and a team of researchers, analyzed records of…

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