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Less couch time equals fewer cookies: Just two simple changes in health behavior spurs big results
Simply ejecting your rear from the couch means your hand will spend less time digging into a bag of chocolate chip cookies.
Health
May 28, 2012 |
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Childhood cancer scars survivors later in life
Scars left behind by childhood cancer treatments are more than skin-deep. The increased risk of disfigurement and persistent hair loss caused by childhood cancer and treatment are associated with emotional distress and reduced ...
Cancer
May 24, 2012 |
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Women trying to have babies face different clock problem
A new Northwestern University study shows that the biological clock is not the only clock women trying to conceive should consider. The circadian clock needs attention, too.
Obstetrics & gynaecology
May 23, 2012 |
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People with spider phobia handle tarantulas, have lasting changes in brain after short therapy
A single brief therapy session for adults with a lifelong debilitating spider phobia resulted in lasting changes to the brain's response to fear.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 21, 2012 |
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A single stem cell mutation triggers fibroid tumors
Fibroid uterine tumors affect an estimated 15 million women in the United States, causing irregular bleeding, anemia, pain and infertility. Despite the high prevalence of the tumors, which occur in 60 percent of women by ...
Cancer
May 04, 2012 |
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Scientists around the world peer into Chicago microscope at same time
A scientist in Austria or elsewhere in the world can now peer into a Chicago collaborator’s microscope in real time while an experiment is being conducted at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Medical research
May 03, 2012 |
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Bilingualism fine-tunes hearing, enhances attention
A Northwestern University study that will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals' rich experience with language in essence "fine-tunes" ...
Neuroscience
Apr 30, 2012 |
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First blood test to diagnose major depression in teens
A Northwestern Medicine scientist has developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens, a breakthrough approach that allows an objective diagnosis by measuring a specific set of genetic markers found in ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Overweight moms with moderately high blood sugar raise health risk
Pregnant women who are overweight with moderately elevated blood sugar never set off any alarms for their physicians. The big concern was for women who were obese or who had gestational diabetes because those conditions are ...
Overweight and Obesity
Apr 11, 2012 |
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New drug prevents spread of human prostate cancer cells
A new drug developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists prevented human prostate cancer cells from spreading to other tissues without any toxic effects to normal cells or tissues. The drug turns off the "go" switch in the ...
Cancer
Apr 03, 2012 |
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New genetic path for scleroderma: Patient biopsies reveal potential new target for therapy
A genetic pathway previously known for its role in embryonic development and cancer has been identified as a target for systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, therapy. The finding, discovered by a cross-disciplinary team led ...
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Diagnosis of ADHD on the rise: 10 million American children diagnosed with ADHD during doctors' visits
The number of American children leaving doctors' offices with an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis has risen 66 percent in 10 years, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Over this same timeframe, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 19, 2012 |
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New research advances understanding of size perception
Neuroscientists from Western University have taken the all-important first step towards understanding the neural basis of size constancy or the ability to see an object as having the same size despite the ...
Neuroscience
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Heart healthy choices early on pay off later
(Medical Xpress) -- Maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Cardiology
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Protein scouts for dangerous bacteria: How the immune system detects listeria and other bad bacteria
Millions of "good" bacteria exist harmoniously on the skin and in the intestines of healthy people. When harmful bacteria attack, the immune system fights back by sending out white blood cells to destroy the disease-causing ...
Immunology
Feb 23, 2012 |
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