Archive: 02/03/2016

Share your fitness data for an Apple Watch—or cash

You know you need to exercise more, but there's always next week, or the week after? To entice you to stop procrastinating, your company or insurer might soon reward you for wearing a fitness device to track your steps, heart ...

Mar 2, 2016

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Chronic stress builds highways for cancer to spread

Monash University researchers have revealed that chronic stress builds lymphatic "highways" that provide cancer cells with a faster and more efficient way to spread.

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How researchers discovered the genetic origin of the 'unibrow' and other hair traits

Whether we like them or not, traits such as a bald head, a "unibrow" or a distinctive hair colour are important parts of our appearance. Throughout history, people have gone through a lot of effort – and sometimes paid ...

Mar 2, 2016

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New direction urged to improve cancer nanotechnology

Researchers involved in a national effort to develop cancer treatments that harness nanotechnology are recommending pivotal changes in the field because experiments with laboratory animals and efforts based on current assumptions ...

Mar 2, 2016

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Turning on blood flow turns on fat-burning brown fat in mice

Increasing the blood flow in brown fat causes it to burn more calories in mice and may help treat obesity, a new study in the Journal of Applied Physiology reports.

Mar 2, 2016

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Cuba announces first case of Zika, imported from Venezuela

Cuba announced Wednesday that it had detected the first case of the Zika virus on the island, which had been one of the last nations in the Western Hemisphere free of the disease.

Mar 2, 2016

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Temple researchers uncover novel mechanism behind aldosterone-induced heart damage

When the heart begins to fail, the body does everything in its power to fix the situation. But sometimes, those compensatory mechanisms ultimately do more harm than good. Such is the case with the adrenal hormone aldosterone, ...

Mar 2, 2016

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Job market lures more physician assistants to specialties over primary care

The job market is luring more physician assistants, or PAs, to jobs in specialty care rather than primary care practices such as family medicine and general pediatrics, according to new research from Duke Health.

Mar 2, 2016

App makes low salt and gluten-free shopping easy

Low salt and gluten-free food products will be easy to identify using an updated smart-phone app that helps New Zealanders to shop healthy.

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A smart shoe to help reduce diabetic amputations

EPFL researchers have developed a shoe sole with valves that electronically control the pressure applied to the arch of the foot. The goal is to relieve foot ulcers commonly caused by diabetes and help them heal to avoid ...

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