Scientists reveal how dietary restriction cleans cells

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Reduce, recycle and rebuild is as important to the most basic component of the human body, the cell, as it is to the environment.


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'Statins' linked to improved survival in kidney transplant recipients

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For patients receiving kidney transplants, treatment with cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs may lead to longer survival, reports a study in the November 2008 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

Limiting fructose may boost weight loss

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One of the reasons people on low-carbohydrate diets may lose weight is that they reduce their intake of fructose, a type of sugar that can be made into body fat quickly, according to a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical ...

Study shows emergency physicians have good first instincts in diagnosing heart attacks

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A study out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrates emergency room doctors are correctly identifying patients who are having a heart attack, even when laboratory tests haven't yet confirmed it.

No justification for denying obese patients knee replacements

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There is no justification for denying obese patients knee replacement surgery: They benefit almost as much as anyone else from the procedure, concludes a small study published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic ...

Soy foods are associated with lower sperm concentrations

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Men who eat an average of half a serving of soy food a day have lower concentrations of sperm than men who do not eat soy foods, according to research published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal, Human ...
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