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Does your voice share your fertility with others?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike members of other animal species, human females do not have obvious physical signs to show the opposite sex that they are ovulating. But research over the years have found subtle changes in women such ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Social hierarchy prewired in the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you find yourself more of a follower than a social leader, it may something to do with the wiring in your brain. According to a new study in Science, researchers from the Chinese Academ ...
Neuroscience
Sep 30, 2011 |
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Texting has rewired your brain
(Medical Xpress) -- Do you know what the numbers 5683 and 3327 mean? According to a recent study, if you are a person who frequently sends text messages, your brain knows what these numbers mean and is unconsciously influencing ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Cuba releases world's first lung cancer vaccine
(Medical Xpress) -- As the most common and deadliest form of cancer, lung cancer kills 1.4 million people per year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. While current treatments may improve the survival rate ...
Cancer
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Faulty gene connected to ovarian cancer risk
In a new study published in Nature Genetics researchers say that women who possess a fault in a gene named RAD51D have a greater risk of developing ovarian cancer than women who do not have this fault and tests are expect ...
Cancer
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Brown bag lunches overheating and possibly unsafe
In a new study published in Pediatrics, researchers reveal that more than 90 percent of the perishable food items found in the school lunches they tested had reached unsafe temperatures by the time they w ...
Health
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Nipples stimulate the same area of the brain as genitals do
A new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine reveals medical evidence that women’s nipples stimulate the brain in the same way that genital stimulation does, something most women already know.
Medical research
Aug 05, 2011 |
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First scorpion sting drug receives FDA approval
The FDA has announced the approval of Anascorp, the first drug designed to specifically treat and counteract the venomous stings of scorpions.
Medications
Aug 05, 2011 |
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King Tut and half of European men share DNA
According to a group of geneticists in Switzerland from iGENEA, the DNA genealogy center, as many as half of all European men and 70 percent of British men share the same DNA as the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, ...
Genetics
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Fatty foods really are mood enhancers
A new study published in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation shows just why it is that people tend to turn to fatty foods in order to boost their emotional state and reduce feelings of sadness. Be it ...
Medical research
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Facebook saves the life of a child
Deborah Copaken Kogan’s Mother’s Day wasn’t exactly what she was hoping for when she woke up to discover her 4-year-old son Leo was sick with a rash. She posted a status message on the social networking site, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 18, 2011 |
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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
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Alzheimer’s prevention better than a cure
In a new study published in Nature, Dr. Sam Gandy from Mount Sinai Medical Center argues that finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease may be near impossible and that the best hope for researchers is to focus on preven ...
Medical research
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Stem cells grow fully functional new teeth
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from Japan recently published a paper in PLoS One describing their successful growth and transplantation of new teeth created from the stem cells of mice.
Medical research
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Mice with human livers make pharmaceutical testing more accurate
(Medical Xpress) -- In a new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers reveal a new miniature artificial human liver that can be implanted into mice to bet ...
Medical research
Jul 12, 2011 |
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