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Overall quality of pregnant woman's diet affects risk for two birth defects, study shows

The overall quality of a pregnant woman's diet is linked with risk for two types of serious birth defects, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has shown. In the study, women who ate better before and ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A natural approach for HIV vaccine

(PhysOrg.com) -- For 25 years, researchers have tried and failed to develop an HIV vaccine, primarily by focusing on a small number of engineered "super antibodies" to fend off the virus before it takes hold. So far, these ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK

A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Qualcomm's HaloIPT tech brings wireless charging for EVs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Qualcomm has demonstrated its new wireless power transmission system for electric vehicles (EVs) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The system, including one pad for power transmitting, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Practice doesn’t make perfect when it comes to understanding risk

(Medical Xpress) -- People aren’t very good at making decisions that involve risk. Many people are afraid of airplanes, although accidents are extremely rare; some people even drive to avoid flying, putting themselves ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Of life and limb

When someone loses a limb to war, accident, or disease, she can get an artificial limb that restores some of her lost movement. But even the best prosthesis doesn’t restore the sense of touch. And touch is what lets ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Memo to pediatricians: Allergy tests are no magic bullets for diagnosis

An advisory from two leading allergists, Robert Wood of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Scott Sicherer of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, urges clinicians to use caution when ordering allergy tests and to avoid making ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Costly diagnostic MRI tests unnecessary for many back pain patients

(Medical Xpress) -- Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Presumed consent not answer to solving organ shortage in US, researchers say

Removing organs for transplant unless person explicitly opts out of donation before death not best way to address scarcity, raises sticky ethical questions.

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created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Obesity, height linked to pain in lower back

A study of more than 800,000 young adults found that obesity and height increased the risk of having low back pain.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research sheds light on origins of greatness

What makes people great? Popular theorists such as the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell and the New York Times' David Brooks argue that intelligence plays a role -- but only up to a point. Beyond that, they say, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New global killers: heart, lung disease and cancer

What's killing us? For decades, global health leaders have focused on diseases that can spread - AIDS, tuberculosis, new flu bugs. They pushed for vaccines, better treatments and other ways to control germs that were only ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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