Archive: 04/03/2015

Heroin overdose deaths quadrupled since 2000

(HealthDay)—Heroin overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, quadrupling since 2000, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday.

Mar 4, 2015

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Infant gut bacteria and food sensitization: Associations in the first year of life

A new study from Canadian researchers at the University of Alberta and University of Manitoba is shedding new light on changes in intestinal bacteria of infants that can predict future development of food allergies or asthma.

Mar 4, 2015

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Cell powerhouse sequencing technology provides deeper look at inherited disease risk

A new sequencing technique may provide a clearer picture of how genes in mitochondria, the "powerhouses" that turn sugar into energy in human cells, shape each person's inherited risk for diabetes, heart disease and cancer, ...

Mar 4, 2015

Defined by your possessions? How loving parents unintentionally foster materialism in their children

Can loving and supportive parents unintentionally encourage their children to define their self-worth through possessions? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, children who receive more material rewards ...

Mar 4, 2015

Mental health soon after war-zone concussions predicts disability

Evaluating military personnel with blast-related mild traumatic brain injuries, researchers have found that early symptoms of post-traumatic stress, such as anxiety, emotional numbness, flashbacks and irritability, are the ...

Mar 4, 2015

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Using fruit flies to understand how we sense hot and cold

Innately, we pull our hand away when we touch a hot pan on the stove, but little is known about how our brain processes temperature information. Northwestern University scientists now have discovered how a fruit fly's brain ...

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DR Congo cholera cases top 1,500, 35 dead: UN

A cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected 1,500 people and caused 35 deaths in less than two months, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Mar 4, 2015

AMP launches micro-costing and health economic evaluation tools for GSP

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, non-profit organization serving molecular diagnostic professionals, today released cost analysis results and health economic evaluation models for several ...

Mar 4, 2015