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Primary care docs should play role in kids' dental health, experts say

(HealthDay)—When it comes to the care of your children's teeth, dentists aren't the only experts who can help.

Dentistry created May 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New model show how the brain is organized to process odor information

Just like a road atlas faithfully maps real-word locations, our brain maps many aspects of our physical world: Sensory inputs from our fingers are mapped next to each other in the somatosensory cortex; the ...

Neuroscience created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

First analysis of dental therapists finds increase in access for children, low-income adults

A new report assessing the economic viability of services provided by practicing midlevel dental providers in the U.S. shows that they are expanding preventive dental care to people who need it most: children and those who ...

Dentistry created May 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study links sinusitis to microbial diversity, suggests new approach for dealing with common ailment

A common bacteria ever-present on the human skin and previously considered harmless, may, in fact, be the culprit behind chronic sinusitis, a painful, recurring swelling of the sinuses that strikes more than one in ten Americans ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Developing our sense of smell: Biologists pinpoint the origin of olfactory nerve cells

When our noses pick up a scent, whether the aroma of a sweet rose or the sweat of a stranger at the gym, two types of sensory neurons are at work in sensing that odor or pheromone. These sensory neurons are ...

Neuroscience created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transition in cell type parallels treatment response, disease progression in breast cancer

A process that normally occurs in developing embryos – the changing of one basic cell type into another – has also been suspected of playing a role in cancer metastasis. Now a study from Massachusetts General Hospital ...

Cancer created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breast milk kills HIV and blocks its oral transmission in humanized mouse

More than 15 percent of new HIV infections occur in children. Without treatment, only 65 percent of HIV-infected children will live until their first birthday, and fewer than half will make it to the age of ...

HIV & AIDS created Jun 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plastics chemical in dental fillings might affect children's behavior: study

(HealthDay) -- Children who receive dental fillings made from the controversial plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) could undergo small but long-term changes in their behavior, a new study suggests.

Pediatrics created Jul 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fat cells in abdomen fuel spread of ovarian cancer

A large pad of fat cells that extends from the stomach and covers the intestines provides nutrients that promote the spread and growth of ovarian cancer, reports a research team based at the University of Chicago in the journal ...

Cancer created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Visceral fat causally linked to intestinal cancer

Visceral fat, or fat stored deep in the abdominal cavity, is directly linked to an increased risk for colon cancer, according to data from a mouse study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Associ ...

Cancer created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Low-fiber diet puts adolescents at higher risk of cardiovascular disease

Adolescents who don't eat enough fiber tend to have bigger bellies and higher levels of inflammatory factors in their blood, both major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, researchers report.

Health created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Coffee and tea consumption reduce MRSA risk

While an apple a day may keep the doctor away, new research published in the Annals of Family Medicine say that hot tea or coffee may keep the methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, or MRSA, bug away, or at least out of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Bioprinting has promising future

Writing in the journal Science, Professor Derby of The School of Materials, looks at how the concept of using printer technology to build structures in which to grow cells, is helping to regenerate tissue.

Medical research created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Animal model sheds light on rare genetic disorder, signaling pathway

A team of researchers from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University has developed a mouse model of focal dermal hypoplasia, a rare human birth defect that causes serious skin abnormalities and other medical problems. ...

Medical research created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study points to new means of overcoming antiviral resistance in influenza

UC Irvine researchers have found a new approach to the creation of customized therapies for virulent flu strains that resist current antiviral drugs.

Medical research created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cavity

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