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'Significant' proportion of HIV positive patients may not be telling NHS staff about their infection

A significant proportion of HIV positive patients may not be disclosing their infection to NHS staff, when turning up for treatment at sexual health clinics, suggests preliminary research published online in the journal Sexually Tr ...

HIV & AIDS created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GPA may be contagious in high-school social networks

High school students whose friends' average grade point average (GPA) is greater than their own have a tendency to increase their own GPA over the course of a year, according to research published February 13 in the open ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study supports regulation of hospitals

Hospital beds tend to get used simply because they're available – not necessarily because they're needed, according to a first-of-its-kind study that supports continued regulation of new hospitals.

Other created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long, low intensity exercise may have more health benefits relative to short, intense workouts

Standing and walking for longer stretches improves insulin sensitivity and blood lipid levels more than an hour of intense exercise each day does, but only if the calories spent in both forms of exercise are similar. The ...

Overweight and Obesity created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study reveals clues to childhood respiratory virus

New Vanderbilt-led research published in the Feb. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has identified the relatively unknown human metapneumovirus (MPV) as the second most common cause of severe bronchiolitis in you ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cracking the semantic code

We make choices about pretty much everything, all the time – "Should I go for a walk or grab a coffee?"; "Shall I look at who just came in or continue to watch TV?" – and to do so we need something common as a basis to ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clues to why most survived China melamine scandal

(AP)—Scientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China's worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut.

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Study: Tobacco control lowers CA health care costs

(AP)—A new study says California's tobacco prevention program saved $134 billion in health care costs over the last two decades.

Addiction created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Impact of stem cell transplantation location in brain a crucial factor for cell survival

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., and the Mossakowski Medical Research Centre in Warsaw, Poland, have found that nonself-donated cells (allografts) better survive implantation into the brains ...

Medical research created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell source an important factor, impacting ability to treat myocardial infarction

When a research team from Denmark and Sweden compared the therapeutic capabilities of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) versus bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) obtained from a single 84 year-old male donor with ischemic ...

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Accelerated biological aging, seen in women with Alzheimer's risk factor, blocked by hormone therapy

Healthy menopausal women carrying a well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease showed measurable signs of accelerated biological aging, a new study has found.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The party in your brain

A team of political scientists and neuroscientists has shown that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they make risky decisions, and these regions can be used to predict which political party ...

Neuroscience created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Gene associated with high anxiety can have protective effect on the battlefield

(Medical Xpress)—The onset of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is unpredictable. Because it depends on the unforeseeable occurrence of traumatic events, it is difficult to identify preventative or ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Probiotic-derived treatment offers new hope for premature babies

Study in the American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology addresses critical component of problem affecting infants with necrotizing enterocolitis.

Medical research created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blood may hold clues to risk of memory problems after menopause, study finds

New Mayo Clinic research suggests that blood may hold clues to whether post-menopausal women may be at an increased risk for areas of brain damage that can lead to memory problems and possibly increased risk of stroke. The ...

Neuroscience created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast