Eating fish while pregnant, longer breastfeeding, lead to better infant development
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Both higher fish consumption and longer breastfeeding are linked to better physical and cognitive development in infants, according to a study of mothers and infants from Denmark. Maternal fish consumption and longer breastfeeding ...
Lighting research center develops framework for assessing light pollution
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The emergence of electric lighting at night nearly a century ago has positively affected countless aspects of human life, ranging from improved safety and security to stronger economic development. But too ...
Advanced blood analysis may speed diagnosis of heart attacks
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Someday doctors may be able to use a blood test to confirm within minutes, instead of hours, if a patient is having a heart attack, allowing more rapid treatment that could limit damage to heart muscle. A study led by investigators ...
Bacteria's sticky glue is clue to vaccine says scientist
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Sticky glue secreted by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus could be the clue scientists have been searching for to make an effective vaccine against MRSA, medical researchers heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's ...
Catching the blood cell bus gives fatal yeast infection a clean getaway
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Yeast fungus cells that kill thousands of AIDS patients every year escape detection by our bodies' defences by hiding inside our own defence cells, and hitch a ride through our systems before attacking and spreading, scientists ...
Mayo Clinic chest surgeons propose measures for indicating quality of lung surgery
Sep 09, 2008 |
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Even though 30,000 patients in the United States undergo lung surgery each year, no standard criteria exist to measure the quality of their care. In the current issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic surgeo ...
US hospitals 'flunk' colon cancer
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School has barely begun, but many U.S. hospitals have already received their report card in colon cancer. They flunked. A new study from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons ...
Human embryonic stem cell secretions minimized tissue injury after heart attack
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A novel way to improve survival and recovery rate after a heart attack was reported in the journal Stem Cell Research by scientists at Singapore's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) ...
Political scientists report on ethnic/racial aspects of Taser use by Houston police
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A new report co-authored by Rice political scientists Mark Jones and William Reed with colleagues at the University of Houston finds patterns and/or aberrations in the use of Tasers related to ethnicity, gender, race and ...
New drug hope for cystic fibrosis patients
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 09, 2008 |
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A new drug therapy may represent a tremendous step forward in the treatment of some 70,000 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients worldwide, Dr David Sheppard from the University of Bristol will tell an audience at the BA Festival ...
UK children's physical activity levels hugely overestimated
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UK children's physical activity levels have been greatly overestimated, with true levels likely to be around six times lower than national data suggest, finds research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in ...
How to differentiate benign from malignant bile duct strictures?
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The differentiation of benign and malignant strictures is difficult. Recently, a group of clinical specialists in Netherlands attempted to find possible criteria for differentiation of malignant from benign bile duct strictures. ...
Older adults can take medicines more safely and effectively by charting their daily routines
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Older adults may be better able to comply with medication regimens by working with providers to fill out simple paper tables that track what they take and when they take it. Recent experiments found that use of a "medtable" ...
Community-based diabetes prevention program shows promise
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With over 60 million Americans diagnosed with prediabetes, putting them at increased risk for diabetes, cardiovascular events and other obesity-related ailments, finding ways to help large populations avoid these complications ...
Safety of anti-malarial drugs in pregnancy must be monitored
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There is an urgent need to develop systems to assess the safety of antimalarials in early pregnancy, says a new essay in this week's PLoS Medicine.
