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Depressed women can lose weight as successfully as others do

Medicine & Health / Health

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Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine. Group Health Research Instit ...


Ethnic pride key to black teen mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Ethnic pride may be as important as self-esteem to the mental health of young African-American adolescents, according to a new study in the Nov/Dec issue of the journal Child Development.


Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.


Can heart disease treatments combat AMD?

Medicine & Health / Research

created 20 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Can treatments that reduce risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD) also help combat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease that affects millions of Americans? CVD and AMD share some risk factors-such as smoking, ...


South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies (AP)

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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(AP) -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation ...


Childhood lead exposure causes permanent brain damage

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate brain function revealed that adults who were exposed to lead as children incur permanent brain injury. The results were presented today at the annual ...


Intelligent blood bags

Intelligent blood bags

Technology / Engineering

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient?s blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These ...


Message for women and dogs: keeping ovaries is linked to longevity

Biology / Other

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(PhysOrg.com) -- This year, hundreds of thousands of women and pet dogs will undergo a hysterectomy and have their ovaries removed along with their uterus. Now, two independent research studies looking at longevity may challenge ...


Investigators identify successful weight control strategies for adolescents

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adolescent obesity is a major public health problem that impacts one out of every three children, resulting in 4-5 million overweight youth in the United States. In a study published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of ...


Intensive fungicide use may lead to azole resistance in humans

Intensive fungicide use may lead to azole resistance in humans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Netherlands, including Gert Kema of Plant Research International, published an article in the Lancet Infectious Diseases about the relationship between fungic ...



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