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What to know about the new bird flu virus
Earlier this month, the U.S. government declared that the emerging H7N9 bird flu "poses a significant potential for a public health emergency." The virus, a relative of other bird flus we've seen previously ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 14, 2013 |
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The future of Plan B
The Obama administration and federal courts are wrangling over changes to the regulations governing access to emergency contraceptives. The administration supports new rules that would allow girls as young ...
Medications
May 14, 2013 |
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Ankle rehab, re-engineered
Ten months ago, Paul Douçot began contemplating his transition from undergraduate mechanical engineering studies to a graduate program in physical therapy. "I didn't want to abandon my engineering background," ...
Other
Apr 18, 2013 |
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Can meditation make you a more compassionate person?
Scientists have mostly focused on the benefits of meditation for the brain and the body, but a recent study by Northeastern University's David DeSteno, published in Psychological Science, takes a look at what impacts medita ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2013 |
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A proposed link between aging, autism, and oxidation
Like any factory, the body burns oxygen to get energy for its various needs. As a result, detrimental byproducts are released and our cells try to clean up shop with antioxidants. But as we age, this process ...
Medical research
Mar 04, 2013 |
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The brakes of inflammation
In the last few decades, scientists have come to attribute an immunological explanation to many cancers. It is now thought that tumors rise up routinely in the body but that a healthy immune ...
Immunology
Feb 27, 2013 |
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Researcher gives subjects their voice
Stephen Hawking and a 9-year-old girl with a speech disorder most likely use the same synthetic voice. It's called Perfect Paul and it's easy to understand, especially in acoustically ...
Other
Feb 21, 2013 |
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'Driving' a new pair of arms: Neurology, recovery and rehabilitation
Brendan Marrocco, an Iraq War veteran who lost all four limbs in a roadside bomb attack, was recently released from a Baltimore hospital after receiving a double-arm transplant. Northeastern ...
Neuroscience
Feb 06, 2013 |
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3Qs: Health in America
The newly released 11th edition of Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease has been called an "authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, nursing, and publ ...
Health
Jan 24, 2013 |
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3Qs: What to know about this year's flu season
Health officials say this year's flu outbreak is the worst in a decade, and Boston on Wednesday declared a public health emergency as the flu epidemic worsened. Forty-one states are currently ...
Health
Jan 14, 2013 |
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Hernia repair, revolutionized
Each year, more than one million patients in the U.S. undergo hernia repair surgery, the most common form of which takes place in the abdomen. The injury presents itself as a weakness in the abdominal ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 09, 2013 |
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Economics research promotes malaria testing
In poor countries where malaria is prevalent but access to health care is limited, many people mistakenly treat the common cold or other serious illnesses such as pneumonia with medications ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 09, 2013 |
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From protein signaling to cancer drug development
(Medical Xpress)—Living organisms depend on proteins for their survival. These large, complex molecules mediate nearly every life function, but when the genes that code for them start to mutate, ...
Cancer
Jan 08, 2013 |
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Validation for flu prediction
(Medical Xpress)—In 2009, the H1N1 virus slipped into the bloodstreams of more than 40 million people around the world. In just four months, it killed more than 14,000 individuals as it traveled ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 08, 2013 |
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3Qs: The building of a 'fitness tribe'
The November Project began last fall as a pact between friends who wanted to stay in shape, but has evolved into what co-founders Brogan Graham, AS'06, and Bojan Mandaric, AS'06, call a "fitness ...
Health
Jan 03, 2013 |
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