At holiday buffets and potlucks, people make quick calculations about which dishes to try and how much to take of each. Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have found a brain region that appears to be strongly connected ...
Oct 19, 2018
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Scientists at Scripps Research have successfully tested a potential new smoking-cessation treatment in rodents.
Oct 17, 2018
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Researchers have established that the foggy feeling and forgetfulness that many new mothers report during and after pregnancy—known as "mom brain"— is real. But new findings from the University of British Columbia suggest ...
Oct 12, 2018
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Becoming overweight at a young age can trigger a molecular chain reaction that leads some girls to experience puberty early, according to new research published in Nature Communications.
Oct 11, 2018
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(HealthDay)—In critically ill patients, mechanical ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) results in reduced diaphragm fiber length that may make it more difficult to wean patients from mechanical ventilation, ...
Oct 9, 2018
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The differences in the way males and females respond to a high-fat, high-sugar diet may include impairment of female fertility, new research suggests. The findings will be presented today at the American Physiological Society's ...
Oct 2, 2018
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A Hong Kong man has developed the world's first ever human case of the rat version of the hepatitis E virus, according to new research from one of the city's leading universities.
Sep 28, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Synthetic marijuana laced with rat poison has caused hundreds of hospitalizations in the United States this year, and a new study details just how serious the poisonings can be.
Sep 26, 2018
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They say you can't teach old dogs new tricks, but new research shows you can teach an old rat new sounds, even if the lesson doesn't stick very long.
Sep 19, 2018
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A study in cocaine-addicted rats reports long-lasting increases in the number of neurons that produce orexin—a chemical messenger important for sleep and appetite—that may be at the root of the addiction. The study, performed ...
Sep 12, 2018
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