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Maternal Smoking Linked to Toddler Behavior Issues

The research, published in the July/August issue of the journal Child Development, found that 2-year-olds regularly exposed to cigarette smoke in utero were…

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Connecting Pediatricians and Mental Health Providers: A New Approach

Writing in the journal Clinical Pediatrics, the researchers said, “With the increased need for identification, diagnosis and treatment of mental health…

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Quitting Smoking Significantly Boosts Lung Function

The findings appear in the second issue for July 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic…

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Improving Indoor Air Quality: Innovations for Asthma Relief

There are substances in the air which, at high concentrations, can lead to harmful effects on health or the environment. This depends primarily on the dose and…

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Fundación BBVA and the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona reassess the intermittent treatment as an efficient strategy against malaria

This research, promoted by the Fundación BBVA and the Hospital Clínic in Manhiça (Mozambique), demonstrates that the intermittent treatment with…

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New Treatment Offers Hope for Medically Unexplained Symptoms

The diagnosis of medically unexplained symptoms is a problem that affects millions of people and can tax an already over-burdened health care system, according…

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Moderate Exercise Boosts Survival for Colon Cancer Survivors

In a pair of studies published on the Journal of Clinical Oncology website http://www.jco.org/early_release/, and slated to appear in the journal's Aug. 1…

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Routine ECGs for Newborns Could Save Lives in Europe

Italian heart specialists are calling on health care providers throughout Europe to give urgent consideration to introducing ECG screening for all babies at…

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Sleep Deprivation Doubles Obesity Risk in Kids and Adults

Early results of a study by Professor Francesco Cappuccio of the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School were presented to the International AC21…

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Scientists Aim to Combat Allergies with New Drugs by 2028

Researchers, working with colleagues at St George’s, University of London, are developing drugs designed to stop allergens from entering the body, so rendering…

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A new diagnostic tool for prostate cancer and how a bigger chromosome 8 can predict poorer outcomes in prostate cancer patients

The problem is that the current methods of disease testing are still associated with too many misdiagnoses. Now however, research by Portuguese and Norwegian…

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FoxM1 and Oestrogen Receptors: New Insights in Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is still the most common malignancy among women with half a million deaths every year and one in nine of all females in the western world…

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Type 2 Diabetes Raises Glaucoma Risk in Women, Study Finds

Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School observed…

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3-D Model Uncovers Secrets of Cell Metastasis

Working in the labs of Whitehead Member Paul Matsudaira and MIT professor Douglas Lauffenburger, postdoctoral researcher Muhammad Zaman discovered that cells…

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Donor T Cells Transform Stem Cell Fate in Transplant Research

In a new study, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine researchers suggest there may be a way to prevent these complications before they occur….

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New Source of Adult Stem Cells Found in Hair Follicles

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have isolated a new source of adult stem cells that appear to have the potential to…

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