Archive: 03/11/2016

Can you smell through your lungs?

It was always thought that olfactory receptors' sole bodily function was to smell, and could only be found inside a nose. But now a new study, published in Frontiers in Physiology, has found two olfactory receptors in human ...

Nov 3, 2016

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Here's how your body transports zinc to protect your health

Zinc is essential for wound healing, for vision, for DNA creation, for our senses of taste and smell, even for sexual health. But despite its importance, scientists have never fully understood the mechanism that moves the ...

Nov 3, 2016

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Kids most likely to suffer sport-related eye injuries

Roughly 30,000 sports-related eye injuries serious enough to end in a visit to the emergency room occur each year in the United States, and the majority happen to those under the age of 18, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...

Nov 3, 2016

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India's doctors raise questions over new president of top medical ethics body

The recent inauguration of Dr Ketan Desai as the new president of the World Medical Association (WMA) raises questions from senior doctors in The BMJ.

Nov 3, 2016

A roadmap to life after the worst injuries, in times of war and peace

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a horrific type of medical trauma known as the "dismounted complex blast injury" (DCBI). Caused when an improvised explosive device detonates beneath a soldier patrolling on ...

Nov 3, 2016

New metabolomic screening method detects multiple inborn errors of metabolism in urine

Analysis of a single urine sample using a metabolomics-based screening approach can identify multiple different inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs), facilitating early disease detection and rapid initiation of treatment, as ...

Nov 3, 2016

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Study reveals non-invasive prenatal genetic test is accurate five weeks into pregnancy

The latest developments in prenatal technology conceived by scientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine that make it possible to test for genetic disorders a little more than one month into pregnancy were ...

Nov 3, 2016

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Brain scientists examine brain networks during short-term task learning

'Practice makes perfect' is a common saying. We all have experienced that the initially effortful implementation of novel tasks is becoming rapidly easier and more fluent after only a few repetitions.

Nov 3, 2016

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Seven substances added to 14th Report on Carcinogens

Today's release of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 14th Report on Carcinogens includes seven newly reviewed substances, bringing the cumulative total to 248 listings.

Nov 3, 2016

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Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Llama antibodies detect cerebral lesions

The major challenge facing physicians treating Alzheimer's is the ability to detect markers of the disease as early as possible. These markers, located in the brain, are difficult to access, hampering diagnosis. Using two ...

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