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Study Reveals Dry Eye Syndrome Risk After LASIK Surgery

Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that people with a certain low level of tear production are more likely to develop chronic dry eye…

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Testosterone Linked to Lower Eating Disorder Risk in Women

An ongoing, six-year study of 538 sets of twins in Michigan indicates that females who were in the womb with male twins have lower risk for eating disorder…

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Debunking the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression

Jeffrey Lacasse, an FSU doctoral candidate and visiting lecturer in the College of Social Work, and Jonathan Leo, a neuroanatomy professor at Lincoln Memorial…

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Restricting Kids' Video Time Reduces Obesity, Randomized Trial Shows

There has been little scientifically based research on the effect of limiting those activities, however. University at Buffalo researchers now have shown in a…

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Brain Chemistry Links Anxiety to Alcohol Use Patterns

“The association of anxiety with increased alcohol use is a key factor in the initiation and maintenance of alcohol addition,” says Dr. Subhash Pandey, UIC…

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WHI Study Confirms Risks of Long-Term Hormone Therapy

New results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) confirm that the health risks of long-term use of combination (estrogen plus progestin) hormone therapy in…

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Costly Placebo Outperforms Cheap Alternative in Study

“Physicians want to think it's the medicine and not their enthusiasm about a particular drug that makes a drug more therapeutically effective, but now we…

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New Anti-Malarial Medicine Shows Promise Against Toxoplasmosis

In the March issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a research team based at the University of Chicago Medical Center shows that the drug, known as…

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Blueberry & Green Tea Supplement May Shield Against Stroke Damage

A nutritional supplement product, NutraStem also known as NT-020, is a proprietary formulation of blueberry, green tea, vitamin D3 and carnosine extracts- a…

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MIT's smart pillbox targets TB

It's not that new treatments are needed–medical science long ago figured out how to cure tuberculosis using a cocktail of antibiotics. The problem is getting…

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New Approach to Tighter Tummies: Combat Weight Gain Effectively

In a paper published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Dr Brian King and Dr Andrea Townsend-Nicholson…

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Enhancing Cancer Patient Autonomy: Key Research Insights

Autonomy is the capacity to take decisions and undertake activities when armed with knowledge about the causes of the illness, sufficient information thereof…

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Psoriasis Therapy Shows No Advantage Over Placebo, Study Finds

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that despite strong scientific evidence in the laboratory demonstrating the ability of…

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Children with autism may learn from 'virtual peers'

Justine Cassell, professor of communication studies and electrical engineering and computer science, recently presented a preliminary study on the work at a…

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Low-Fat Diets Linked to Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds

The study, published in the February edition of the scientific journal Hypertension, was led by David D. Gutterman, M.D., Northwestern Mutual Professor of…

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Understanding Sleep Quality: Insights from Insomniacs and Normal Sleepers

Further, people with insomnia have more requirements for judging sleep to be of good quality, according to a study published in the March 1 issue of the…

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