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Asia-Pacific: Tackling the Diabetes Crisis Head-On

In Australia alone, diabetes is responsible for 4,000 fatal heart attacks and strokes each year. In India, which has the largest number of individuals with…

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Forsyth Scientists Advance Regenerative Medicine with New Discovery

Scientists at Forsyth may have moved one step closer to regenerating human spinal cord tissue by artificially inducing a frog tadpole to re-grow its tail at a…

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Eating Ice Cream May Boost Fertility for Women Trying to Conceive

Drinking whole fat milk and eating ice cream appears to be better for women trying to become pregnant than a diet consisting of low-fat dairy products such as…

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New Insights on Common Colds: A Path to Asthma Control

“Understanding the mechanism that allows non-asthmatics to deal with the common cold could constitute a new approach to help prevent and control asthma…

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Botox 'major advance' in bringing bladder relief

Christopher Chapple, a visiting professor at Sheffield Hallam University, said poisonous botulinum toxin could be used therapeutically to treat bladder storage…

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Delft University Designs Toy to Boost Language Skills in Autistic Kids

Helma van Rijn’s graduation project focused on the language development of autistic children. She has developed and tested a toy that can help autistic…

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Depression’s Impact on Heart Failure Patients’ Health Risks

After taking into account such factors as disease severity, the strength of the heart muscle contractions, the underlying cause for the heart failure, age and…

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Smoking and TB Infection: Study Reveals Increased Risk

The authors of the study, published in the Feb. 26 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, analyzed 24 studies that included details about smoking…

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Patients with type 1 diabetes don’t wake in response to hypoglycemia

Bernd Schultes and colleagues from the University of Lubeck induced hypoglycemia with insulin under controlled conditions and then assessed sleep with…

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Cue Exposure Therapy Risks in Opiate Addiction Recovery

Persistent cue reactivity to drug-related stimuli is a well-known phenomenon among abstinent drug users and has been found to be a predictor of relapse. Cue…

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Anger’s Role in Migraine: Understanding the Connection

Migraine without aura causes acute and chronic pain and partially compromises patients' social functioning and work performance. Over the past years,…

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Finland’s Alcohol Tax Cuts: Impact on Sudden Death Rates

The Finnish government was responding to an EU-wide harmonisation of travellers’ allowances in January 2004, and introduced the tax cuts to protect domestic…

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Exercise Testing Boosts Chronic Disease Management: ERS Findings

The findings come from a three-year international research project by the European Respiratory Society’s (ERS) task force on clinical exercise testing, which…

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Industry-Funded Breast Cancer Trials Show Positive Results

Published online Feb. 26 in CANCER, the journal of the American Cancer Society, the study explores the impact of pharmaceutical-company involvement on breast…

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Aspirin reduces esophageal-cancer risk in people with most-aggressive form of Barrett's esophagus

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found that people with the most-aggressive form of Barrett’s esophagus, a precancerous condition…

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Diesel Exposure Model Enhances Allergy Risk Assessment Accuracy

Many prior air pollution studies rely heavily on what are known as proximity (distance) exposure models, which assume all subjects in a given distance from an…

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