Brain exercises delay mental decline
New research suggests exercising your brain can keep you sharper for longer into old age, but when the symptoms of dementia finally settle in, the decline happens faster.
Fri 3 Sep 10 from ABC Science
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Preventive cancer surgeries save women's lives
A new study underscores the importance for women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer to get genetic counseling and testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that make them more likely ...
Tue 31 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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Study: Diet Drug Meridia May Boost Heart Risks
A new study finds that some users of the weight-loss pill Meridia may have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke
Wed 1 Sep 10 from TIME
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Hair provides proof of the link between chronic stress and heart attack
Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have provided the first direct evidence using a biological marker, to show chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks. Stressors ...
Fri 3 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Stem cell ruling puts researcher's project in limbo
(PhysOrg.com) -- Promising work by Joanna Wysocka, PhD, has been thrown into an uncertain limbo by a recent injunction suspending federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
Tue 31 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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Metformin may protect against lung cancer
Metformin, a drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, shows potential in the prevention of tobacco-induced lung tumors, according to early research conducted at the National Cancer Institute ...
Wed 1 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Altruistic bacteria may change how we battle antibiotic resistance
Some bacteria, the most antibiotic-resistance ones, sacrifice themselves so that their fellow bacteria have a better chance at survival.
Thu 2 Sep 10 from USA today
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Artificial Cornea Offers Long-Term Vision
The results of a two-year study are as good as those achieved with donor corneas. Patients with impaired vision because of a damaged cornea could soon regain their sight without need of a human ...
Wed 25 Aug 10 from MIT Technology Review
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UK: New guidelines to ease sleepless nights
Insomnia and other sleep disorders are very common, yet are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals. Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Low grades in adolescence linked to dopamine genes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects -- English, math, science, history -- if their DNA contains one or more of three specific ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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