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Personality traits contribute to 'placebo effect'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have found for the first time that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger “placebo response,” or pain relief caused by the administration of a sham treatment, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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Pioneering IVF doctor dies in Australia

A pioneering Australian doctor known for his groundbreaking work on the world's first pregnancy through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has died after a long illness.

Medicine & Health / Other

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Young and Karr propose ways to improve how observational studies are conducted

S. Stanley Young, assistant director for bioinformatics at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), and Alan Karr, director at NISS, have published a non-technical article in the September issue of Significance magazi ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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Federal report shows drop in adolescent birth rate

(Medical Xpress) -- The adolescent birth rate declined for the second consecutive year, preterm births declined for the third consecutive year, adolescent injury deaths declined, and fewer 12th graders binge drank, according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Treatment of chronic low back pain can reverse abnormal brain activity and function

It likely comes as no surprise that low back pain is the most common form of chronic pain among adults. Lesser known is the fact that those withchronic pain also experience cognitive impairments and reduced gray matter in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Notre Dame receives TARDEC grant for next-generation batteries

Faculty from the University of Notre Dame’s Colleges of Engineering and Science have been awarded more than $1.3 million from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center ...

Technology / Engineering

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Predictions of upcoming winners for Nobel Prize in physics

The announcement of the winners of the next Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning will bring to an end the very private deliberations within the Swedish Academy, which selects the winner. It will also ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

1000th protein structure released by Structural Genomics Consortium

The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), an international public-private partnership that aims to determine three-dimensional structures of medically important proteins, announced the release into the public ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New treatment for severe aortic stenosis shown to save lives, researchers say

Implantation of a new bioprosthetic-tissue valve into the hearts of patients who have severe aortic stenosis and are too sick or too old for open-heart surgery has been found to both save lives and improve the quality of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kid-in-car warning systems getting a big push

Safety advocates are urging Congress and regulators to force carmakers to install warning systems that would prevent distracted parents from leaving children in cars, preventing heatstroke deaths.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

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New study investigates use of soy-rich diet for preventing chronic pain after breast cancer surgery

(PhysOrg.com) -- A breakthrough study focusing on the benefits of soy in the prevention of chronic pain after breast cancer surgery has been launched by researchers at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit of the McGill University ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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