By Loyola University Health System
More than 66 million Americans are obese, says a December study, and top New Year's Resolutions include losing weight.
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By Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
The traditional view of recurrent tumors is that they are resistant to therapy because they’ve acquired additional genetic mutations that make them more aggressive and impervious to drugs. Now, however, researchers show in an animal model that t
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By Karolinska Institutet
Scientists have identified two molecules that play an important role in the survival and production of nerve cells in the brain, including nerve cells that produce dopamine. The discovery may be significant in the long term for the treatment of several di
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By JAMA and Archives Journals
In a study examining possible factors regarding the associations between fructose consumption and weight gain, brain magnetic resonance imaging of study participants indicated that ingestion of glucose but not fructose reduced cerebral blood flow and acti
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By Plataforma SINC
Researchers have studied university students' lifestyles; their analysis, which includes alcohol and illegal drug consumption habits, sport and food, concludes that most students indulge in unhealthy behavior. One of the main results of the study points t
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By Johns Hopkins Medicine
As anyone familiar with the X-Men knows, mutants can be either very good or very bad — or somewhere in between. The same appears true within cancer cells, which may harbor hundreds of mutations that set them apart from other cells in the body; t
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By American Medical Association (AMA)
A new study finds that obesity may be declining among preschool-aged children living in low-income families in the United States.
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By Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
One of the world's most devastating diseases is malaria, responsible for at least a million deaths annually, despite global efforts to combat it. Researchers have identified a protein in human blood platelets that points to a powerful new weapon against t
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By University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Six weeks of weight training can significantly improve blood markers of cardiovascular health in young African-American men, researchers report.
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By American College of Surgeons
A new study describes the role of hospital type in race-based treatment disparities among pediatric appendicitis patients.
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By Mayo Clinic
For nearly a decade, breast cancer researchers studying the hormone therapy tamoxifen have been divided as to whether genetic differences in a liver enzyme affect the drug’s effectiveness and the likelihood breast cancer will recur. A new study
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By Journal of the National Cancer Institute
There is little association of multidisciplinary tumor boards with measures of use, quality, or survival, and measuring only the presence of tumor boards may not be adequate in determining their effects on cancer care, according to a new study.
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By American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
New research suggests that thinning of a layer of the retina in the eyes may show how fast multiple sclerosis (MS) is progressing in people with the disease.
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By JAMA and Archives Journals
In a study that included nearly 30,000 women from Nordic countries who had filled a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor prescription during pregnancy, researchers found no significant association between use of these medications during pregnancy and ri
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By University of North Carolina Health Care
New research has shed new light on how epigenetic signals may function together to determine the ultimate fate of a stem cell. The study implicates a unique class of proteins called polycomb-like proteins as bridging molecules between the "on" a
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By VIB
Acute lymphatic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in children under the age of 14 years. With optimum treatment, approximately 75 percent of children are currently cured, but the treatment consists of severe chemotherapy with many side effects. Res
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By Johns Hopkins Medicine
Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a person’s medical record may be doing their patients a disservice, a new study concludes.
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By Oregon State University
Researchers have discovered an underlying genetic cause of atopic dermatitis, a type of eczema most common in infancy that also affects millions of adults around the world with dry, itchy and inflamed skin lesions. The findings could lead to new therapies
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By University of Manchester
Scientists have identified how cells know which way up they need to be. The discovery could help in the fight against cancer because in the early stages of the disease the cells become dis-organized.
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By University of Oxford
Rare DNA faults in two genes have been strongly linked to bowel cancer by researchers, who sequenced the genomes of people from families with a strong history of developing the disease.
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