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Post-Meal Exercise: A Smart Way to Support Weight Loss

Exercise after meals may help you lose weight. Research in this month’s Journal of Endocrinology shows that exercise after meals reduces appetite in the…

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Cows’ Milk Allergy in Infants Causes Considerable Distress to Entire Family

Cows’ milk allergy (CMA) has considerable negative effects on the family unit, as exposed by findings from an international survey. In addition to coping with…

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Preventing Brain Flooding: Innovations That Save Lives

After head trauma or after stroke, brain swelling – caused by an influx of water into the brain – is one of the factors most likely to cause death, taking a…

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Miniature robot for precise positioning and targeting in keyhole neurosurgery wins Kaye Award for Hebrew University researcher

Now, an invention by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher has made it possible to retain the advances of such keyhole surgery through utilization of the…

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Trastuzumab Benefits: Lowering HER2+ Breast Cancer Risks

These studies, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), were undertaken to test whether trastuzumab adds to the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy…

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Circulating Tumor Cells Signal Prostate Cancer Chemotherapy Success

The team of scientists – including first author Jose Moreno, M.D., clinical associate professor of urology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson…

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Unveiling the Restless Brain: Insights from Indiana University

Indiana University neuroscientists Olaf Sporns and Christopher Honey find the 98 percent of brain activity that other researchers consider just background…

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New TB Test Promises Faster, Easier Diagnosis for Patients

The study shows that the test, which involves taking three sputum samples from a patient over the course of one day, is just as effective as other more…

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Radium-223: A New Hope for Prostate Cancer Treatment

Patients who have HRPC often have involvement of bone marrow, leading to symptoms such bone pain, spinal-cord compression and pathological fracture. Existing…

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Antidepressant Ineffective in Advanced Cancer Patient Care

Self-ratings of depression, mood, fatigue, and quality of life are significant predictors of survival in patients with advanced cancer. Although the simple…

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Oral Insulin Study Aims to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes

The UF Health Science Center and Shands at UF are among 14 centers in the United States working with affiliate sites and participating physicians in Type 1…

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Folic Acid Supplementation Linked to Lower Stroke Risk

But the authors and an accompanying comment caution that there remains controversy as to whether folic acid supplementation can lead to improved outcomes for…

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Papillomavirus Vaccine: A Key to Lowering Cervical Cancer Rates

Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in women worldwide, and is caused by infection with oncogenic (cancer causing) types of human…

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Welsh Medics Explore Surgery’s Role in Diabetes Treatment

95% of morbidly obese people – those with a Body Mass Index of over 40 – have Type 2 diabetes, sometimes known as maturity-onset diabetes. However, nearly 80%…

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First-ever Medical Treatment Breakthrough Announced Today

Researchers at Queen Mary University London and the University of Leicester and have today (Friday June 1) announced a potential breakthrough in the treatment…

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How Pregnancy Stress Impacts Unborn Child Development

Stress hormones are pumped into our blood when we become anxious. These hormones are good in the short term because they help our bodies deal with the present…

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