By Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Stroke is the country's leading cause of disability, leaving millions with residual arm and leg weakness. However, efforts have usually focused on stroke prevention and acute care. Now, two new studies suggest that stroke survivors left weakened or partia
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By University of British Columbia
Researchers have developed a vaccine to halt the spread of West Nile Virus among common and endangered bird species.
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By Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
Several human and animal studies have shown a relationship between a preference for highly sweet tastes and alcohol use disorders. Furthermore, the brain mechanisms of sweet-taste responses may share common neural pathways with responses to alcohol and ot
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By Johns Hopkins Medicine
People with cheerful temperaments are significantly less likely to suffer a coronary event such as a heart attack or sudden cardiac death, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
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By Johns Hopkins Medicine
Genetic mutations aren't the only thing that can keep a protein called PTEN from doing its tumor-suppressing job. Researchers have now discovered that four small chemical tags attached (reversibly) to the protein's tail can have the same effect, and they
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By SRI International
Scientists have demonstrated that measurements of electrical activity in the brains of mouse models of Huntington's disease could indicate the presence of disease before the onset of major symptoms.
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By Penn State
Many parents have a difficult time persuading their preschool-aged children to try vegetables, let alone eat them regularly. Food and nutrition researchers have found that by offering a dip flavored with spices, children were more likely to try vegetables
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By The Scripps Research Institute
Scientists have published one of the first laboratory studies of MDPV, an emerging recreational drug that has been sold as "bath salts." The researchers confirmed the drug's powerful stimulant effects in rats and found evidence that it could be
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By Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
If the heart following a heart attack is not sufficiently supplied with blood, heart tissue dies. In adult humans, the ability to heal itself is hardly developed. Scientists have now observed in the embryo of the zebrafish that muscle cells migrate from t
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By University of New Mexico Cancer Center
An international team of melanoma researchers confirmed that the chances of dying from skin cancer depend strongly upon how thick the primary tumor is. But -- unexpectedly -- the team also found that those having more than one primary tumor have better su
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By Plataforma SINC
A recent study analyses cases of drowning attended to in 21 hospitals in Spain during the summers of 2009 and 2010. 60% of the victims were younger than six years old and more than 70% did not know how to swim and were not using flotation devices when the
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By The JAMA Network Journals
Patients who search on free health-related websites for information related to a medical condition may have the health information they provide leaked to third party tracking entities through code on those websites, according to new research.
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By St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Scientists have discovered that a protein used by cancer cells to evade death also plays a vital role in heart health.
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By UT Southwestern Medical Center
Researchers report the identification of a new cellular source for an important disease-fighting protein used in the body's earliest response to infection.
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By Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
After a 2011 outbreak of P. aeruginosa, investigators determined contaminated ultrasound gel was the source of bacteria causing the healthcare-associated infection. The findings emphasize the need for increased scrutiny of contaminated medical products.
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By European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
An analysis of almost 10,000 first cycles of egg donation treatment at one of Europe's largest IVF centres shows that female obesity reduces the receptivity of the uterus to embryo implantation and thereby compromises reproductive outcome. The investigato
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By BMJ-British Medical Journal
As fears rise over antibiotic resistance, two experts debate whether adding antibiotics to animal feed poses a serious risk to human health.
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By BMJ-British Medical Journal
Going to bed at different times every night throughout early childhood seems to curb children's brain power, finds a large, long term study.
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By University of North Carolina Health Care
New evidence shows that MerTK macrophage action in the microenvironment that surrounds cancer cells blunts the immune response, allowing the tumor cell to grow and metastasize.
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By University of California, San Diego Health Sciences
The rates of regional brain loss and cognitive decline caused by aging and the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are higher for women and for people with a key genetic risk factor for AD, say researchers.
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