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In rich and poor nations, giving makes people feel better than getting, research finds
Feeling good about spending money on someone else rather than for personal benefit may be a universal response among people in both impoverished countries and rich nations, according to new research published by the American ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 21, 2013 |
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Health risks were not consumers' first concern over horse meat contamination, study finds
Days after the initial announcement by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) on the 15th January that horse and pig DNA were found in beef burgers, researchers conducted an online consumer study, as part of the EU-funded ...
Health
Feb 21, 2013 |
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Creeping epidemic of obesity hits Asia Pacific region
Over eating, sedentary lifestyles, cultural attitudes, and lack of prevention programmes are to blame for the rising epidemic of obesity in the Asia Pacific region. Overweight and obesity has quadrupled in China and societies ...
Overweight and Obesity
Feb 20, 2013 |
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New UN report on hormone-disrupting chemicals
An international team of scientific experts has expressed great concern about the effect of increasing exposure of humans and animals to hormone-disrupting substances. This comes in a new report commissioned ...
Health
Feb 20, 2013 |
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Childhood cancer in developing countries—a growing health threat that could be easily managed
Across the developing world, childhood cancer is on the rise, and mortality is high. Once thought of as a rich world disease, cancer is a growing health threat across low-income and middle-income countries (LMCs). A major ...
Cancer
Feb 19, 2013 |
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Research stresses the importance of 'test and treat' HIV strategy
A new study involving a McMaster researcher calls for an aggressive "test and treat" approach to HIV-positive individuals in Africa. The study measures the importance of different routes of transmission in 18 African countries ...
HIV & AIDS
Feb 18, 2013 |
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Research team launches groundbreaking drug trial in Africa
Determined to bring relief to seizure victims, a Michigan State University research team this month begins a groundbreaking clinical drug trial that could help prevent a quarter-million African children from developing epilepsy ...
Medications
Feb 16, 2013 |
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Study identifies ways to increase IUD use in developing countries
Boosting demand for intrauterine devices, commonly referred to as IUDs, and improving access to them can significantly increase their use in developing countries, where they have traditionally been an unpopular method of ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Feb 15, 2013 |
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Stage at diagnosis only partly explains wide international variation in lung cancer survival
Stage at diagnosis only partly explains the wide variation in lung cancer survival rates among different developed countries, indicates a large study of nearly 60,000 patients, published online in Thorax.
Cancer
Feb 12, 2013 |
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Babies born to immigrant women in Ontario bigger than those born in their mothers' native countries
Women who immigrate to Ontario have babies who are bigger than those born in their native countries, new research has shown.
Pediatrics
Feb 08, 2013 |
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Surveillance system can identify and track emerging infectious diseases
A team of researchers have developed a method to identify the cause of infectious disease outbreaks based on online reports about the symptoms, the season, and the ratio of cases to fatalities. Using data from the Internet ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 08, 2013 |
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New study highlights Chagas disease as a growing health and socio-economic challenge
Today, The Lancet Infectious Diseases published a new report that examines the global economic burden of Chagas disease. In the first study of its kind, researchers measured the health and economic impact of Chagas diseas ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 07, 2013 |
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Has the 'Golden Age' of global health funding come to an end?
Despite dire predictions in the wake of the economic crisis, donations to health projects in developing countries appear to be holding steady, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ...
Health
Feb 06, 2013 |
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Professor debunks one of sport's biggest myths
One of the most enduring myths that has slipped into public consciousness has been debunked by a sports science professor at the University of Abertay Dundee.
Health
Feb 06, 2013 |
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Early breast cancer diagnosis, survival rates low in rural India
Women in developed countries survive roughly 10 years longer after a breast cancer diagnosis compared to women in poor-to-middle-income countries, a new University of Michigan study suggests.
Cancer
Feb 04, 2013 |
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