By University of Michigan Health System
Adults nationwide are concerned about the use of e-cigarettes by children and teens, with 44 percent indicating worries that the devices will encourage kids to use tobacco products.
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By Duke University
One of the first areas of the brain to be attacked by Alzheimer's disease, the posterior cingulate cortex, or PCC, has been found to step in during a cognitive challenge to improve the brain's performance. This small study in monkeys establishes a role fo
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By American Chemical Society
In the quest to shrink motors so they can maneuver in tiny spaces like inside and between human cells, scientists have taken inspiration from millions of years of plant evolution and incorporated, for the first time, corkscrew structures from plants into
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By Michigan Technological University
There will be no crying involved in a new test for vitamin deficiencies in infants. Instead of drawing blood, health care workers will gently sample a tear.
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By DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Researchers have identified a method for protein crystallography that reduces damage to the protein crystal. This will allow crystals to be studied for longer periods of time as researchers study protein structures for new pharmaceuticals.
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By Endocrine Society
Obese children naturally produce higher levels of a key stress hormone than their normal weight peers, according to new research.
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By University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
A mosquito-borne virus that kills about half of the people it infects uses a never-before-documented mechanism to "hijack" one of the cellular regulatory systems of its hosts to suppress immunity, according scientists. The discovery could aid in
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By University of Hertfordshire
New measurements on the properties and spread of airborne pollen to improve the forecasting of this natural allergen, which affects human health as well as the Earth’s temperature, have been published in a new international study.
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By Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
The manufacturer's second dossier on the drug Vemurafenib contained additional and more recent data, but did not provide any new findings. Hence the result "indication of considerable added benefit" remains unchanged.
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By American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Two unusual treatment approaches may have beneficial effects on the symptoms of autism in children and adults. Using a hot bath to raise body temperature and thereby mimic the effects of infection, or using worm eggs to stimulate the production of immunor
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By Uppsala Universitet
Perfluorinated compounds are environmental toxins that are found in fire extinguishing foam and water-repellent textiles, among other items. In a new study, a research team has seen links between high levels of perfluorinated compounds in the blo
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By Vanderbilt University
Peer solicitation – a child inviting another to play – can improve reciprocal social interaction among children with autism, according to a study.
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By Springer Science+Business Media
Compared to their counterparts in cities, cancer patients living in rural areas tend to retire early after being diagnosed, and are less likely to go on paid disability leave while receiving treatment. These are some of the insights drawn from research in
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By Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
A new test should help doctors to decrease the risk of suicidality in patients treated with antidepressants who show certain gene markers. Researchers plan to launch the test immediately as a laboratory developed test. In addition, clinical studies in sup
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By INRA - Paris
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare but fatal disease in humans. For the first time, the presence of infectivity in the blood of patients affected by sporadic and the new variant of CJD has been established by scientists. Complementary investigation
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By University of Wisconsin-Madison
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, saddling children of low-income families with slower rates of growth in two key brain structures, according to researchers.
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By University of Missouri-Columbia
Fewer than half of adults in the United States meet the recommended physical activity guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Often physical inactivity may be associated with overweight and obese individuals, but even healthy, no
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By International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Age is not just the number of years one has lived, argue population researchers. A new study provides a set of tools for measuring age in all its dimensions.
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By NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
Smokers who are addicted to cocaine or methamphetamine can quit smoking while being treated for their stimulant addiction, without interfering with stimulant addiction treatment, according to new research.
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By Brigham Young University
New research is finding that global health workers should not give up on impoverished children after the first 1,000 days. In a longitudinal study of 8,000 children from four poverty-laden countries, health science researchers found that the developmental
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