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Breastfeeding for more than six months associated with smaller maternal waist circumference

Breastfeeding for more than 6 months was found to be independently associated with smaller waist circumference in the decade after delivery among women in the POUCHmoms Study. Pregnancy contributes to an accumulation of abdominal ...

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Levels of gene-expression-regulating enzyme altered in brains of people with schizophrenia

A study using a PET scan tracer developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified, for the first time, epigenetic differences between the brains of individuals ...

Dec 14, 2018

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Johnson & Johnson shares plunge after report on asbestos in baby powder

US pharmaceutical and cosmetics group Johnson & Johnson saw its shares plunge Friday after a media report alleged the group had deliberately concealed for decades that its baby powder sometimes contained asbestos.

Dec 14, 2018

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Self-perception and reality seem to line-up when it comes to judging our own personality

When it comes to self-assessment, new U of T research suggests that maybe we do have a pretty good handle on our own personalities after all.

Dec 14, 2018

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Can stem cells help a diseased heart heal itself? Researchers achieve important milestone

A team of Rutgers scientists, including Leonard Lee and Shaohua Li, have taken an important step toward the goal of making diseased hearts heal themselves—a new model that would reduce the need for bypass surgery, heart ...

Dec 14, 2018

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Researchers study abnormal blood glucose levels of discharged patients

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers decided to delve into an area where little data currently exists. They wanted to know what happens after these patients with abnormal blood glucose measurements are discharged? ...

Dec 14, 2018

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On Christmas Eve, Santa delivers presents—and a few extra heart attacks

If you think of the night before Christmas as a time for hot cocoa, cozy fires and Bing Crosby albums, a new discovery by Swedish researchers may well break your heart:

Dec 14, 2018

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HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection

For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of designing an HIV vaccine. Now new research, published in Immunity, shows that their experimental vaccine strategy works in non-human ...

Dec 14, 2018

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The media's holiday suicide myth will never die

After almost 20 years of debunking the erroneous claim that suicide rates surge around the holidays, Daniel Romer has reached a conclusion.

Dec 14, 2018

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Early physical therapy can reduce risk, amount of long-term opioid use, study finds

Patients who underwent physical therapy soon after being diagnosed with pain in the shoulder, neck, low back or knee were approximately 7 to 16 percent less likely to use opioids in the subsequent months, according to a new ...

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