Archive: 10/02/2011
Soccer could give homeless men a health kick, study says
Playing street football two or three times a week could halve the risk of early death in homeless men. Research led by the Universities of Exeter and Copenhagen, out today, shows the positive impact of street football on ...
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Potential leukaemia drug could be a good BET
(Medical Xpress) -- A team led by Cancer Research UK scientists in Cambridge have made a significant discovery in the lab that could lead to a new treatment for leukaemia.
Cancer
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PCs to blame for rise in stressed out workers
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers interested in stress at work have been concerned at the increased intensity of work in the EU over the past 20 years. A more detailed breakdown has shown that this increase ...
Health
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Archaeologists uncover prehistoric pre-school (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeological research reveals that 13,000 years before CBeebies hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.
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Previously unknown cell interaction is key in immune system attacks
Most of the time, the immune system is the body's protector, warding off invading viruses and bacteria before they can lead to infection and disease. But in autoimmune diseases, the immune system does an about face, turning ...
Medical research
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Genomic architecture presages genomic instability: study
When cells divide normally, DNA gets copied perfectly and distributed among the daughter cells with an even hand. Occasionally though, DNA breaks during division and is rearranged, resulting in duplications or deletions of ...
Genetics
Oct 02, 2011 |
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Obesity or stem cell research could win Nobel
Two scientists who unlocked some of the mysteries linked to obesity or a professor who figured out how to make stem cells without human embryos could be candidates for the medicine award when the first of ...
Medical research
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Long road from farm to fork worsens food outbreaks
(AP) -- The recent listeria outbreak from cantaloupe shows that large-scale occurrences of serious illnesses linked to tainted food have grown more common over the years, partly because much of what we eat ...
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Researchers identifiy more accurate treatment delivery for robotic radiosurgery system
– Radiosurgery is a non-invasive medical procedure in which focused beams of high-energy X-rays target tumors and other abnormalities in the body. A single large dose of radiation is capable of ablating a lesion that ...
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