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New study suggests many apples a day keep the blues at bay

Eating more fruit and vegetables may make young people calmer, happier and more energetic in their daily life, new research from New Zealand's University of Otago suggests.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

GP judgement not enough to accurately diagnose cases of pneumonia

Pneumonia cannot be accurately diagnosed solely on a doctor's analysis of symptoms and patient history, according to new findings.

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Emergency admissions death toll significantly higher on public holidays

Patients admitted to hospital as emergencies on public holidays are significantly more likely to die than those admitted on other days of the week - including weekends - indicates research published online in Emergency Me ...

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Study reveals gaps in availability of radiotherapy services across Europe

Most strikingly, the study finds that in several countries in western Europe there are too few radiotherapy machines to ensure that cancer patients in need of radiotherapy receive treatment. For instance, in Italy around ...

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Attitudes to speed among learner drivers predict unsafe driving once qualified

Attitudes to speed and risk-taking on the road develop at the learner driver stage and predict those who will go on to be potentially dangerous drivers once fully licensed, indicates research published online in Injury Pr ...

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Amgen 4Q profit drops 16 pct. on higher spending

Drugmaker Amgen Inc. on Wednesday posted a 16 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit, as higher costs for production, marketing, research and other items offset higher sales for many of its biologic medicines. The results ...

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Implementation of smoke-free legislation reduces the number of acute myocardial infarctions by 11 percent

Researchers participating in the REGICOR Study (Girona Heart Registry), with the participation of IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) from Barcelona, the Josep Trueta Hospital, the Blanes Hospital and IDIAP ...

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Effect of taking smaller bites outweighs tendency to eat more when distracted

Eating while distracted generally makes people eat more without being aware of it, but reducing bite sizes may be able to counter this effect, according to new research published January 23 in the open access journal PLOS ON ...

Overweight and Obesity created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Self-reported BMI bias estimates increasing due to weight bias, not weight loss

The gap between obesity levels measured by self-reported height and weight and obesity recorded by measured height and weight is increasing. This is due to an increasing bias in self-reported weight, according to research ...

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Risk of lung cancer death has risen dramatically among women smokers in recent decades

Female smokers have a much greater risk of death from lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) in recent years than did female smokers 20 or 40 years ago, reflecting changes in smoking behavior according to ...

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Novel approaches needed to end growing scourge of 'superbugs'

With the rising awareness of the so-called "superbugs," bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the Jan. 24 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine called ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bioengineers discover the natural switch that controls spread of breast cancer cells

With a desire to inhibit metastasis, Cornell biomedical engineers have found the natural switch between the body's inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to spread.

Cancer created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Frequent multitaskers are bad at it: Motorists overrate ability to talk on cell phones when driving

Most people believe they can multitask effectively, but a University of Utah study indicates that people who multitask the most – including talking on a cell phone while driving – are least capable of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New method is first to predict brain cancer outcome and quickly show if therapy is effective

The critical question shortly after a brain cancer patient starts treatment: how well is it working? But there hasn't been a good way to gauge that.

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Experts propose overhaul of ethics oversight of research

The longstanding ethical framework for protecting human volunteers in medical research needs to be replaced because it is outdated and can impede efforts to improve health care quality, assert leaders in bioethics, medicine, ...

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