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Infants who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution are at increased risk for bronchiolitis, according to a new study.
The study appears in the November 15 issue of the American Thoracic Society`s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
"There has been very little study of the consequences of early life exposure to air [...]
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Golfers who undergo treatment for sleep apnea may improve their golf game as well as their overall health, shows new research.
A new study presented at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), found that golfers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who received nasal positive airway pressure [...]
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Most weight-control strategies emphasize energy-restricted diets and increased physical activity – and most are not effective over the long term. In a study of a "weight-acceptance" intervention, published in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers found that there could be long-term beneficial effects on certain eating behaviors using [...]
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A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our health.
The study showed humans carry "personalized" communities of bacteria around [...]
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Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women`s mental health. It undermines their view of themselves as masters of their own life circumstances and makes them less psychologically resilient and more prone to depression. These findings (1) by Dr. Verna Keith, from Florida State University in the US and her colleagues, are published [...]
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Carotenoids — fat-soluble plant compounds found in some vegetables — are essential to the human diet and reportedly offer important health benefits to consumers. Plant carotenoids are the most important source of vitamin A in the human diet; the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, found in corn and leafy greens vegetable such as kale, broccoli, and [...]
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Results of a long QT syndrome (LQTS) study published in the current issue of Circulation play an important role in understanding genetic testing`s role in diagnosing disease, according to the senior author, Michael Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D. A pediatric cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Ackerman directs Mayo`s Long QT Syndrome Clinic and is the director of [...]
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Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), based in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry.
In the November 2009 Archives of General Psychiatry, the researchers report finding [...]
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In this week`s Nature, Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) scientists report a technological advance in the study of gene expression and regulation in the genome`s three-dimensional folding and looping state through the development of a novel technology.
The technology is ChIA-PET (Chromatin Interaction Analysis using Paired End Tag sequencing). Chromatin is a complex combination of DNA [...]
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A novel method of detection of cervical cancer cells has been developed by Clarkson University Professor Igor Sokolov`s group, an affiliate of the University`s Nanoengineering and Biotechnology Laboratories Center (NABLAB).
The group`s paper is published in Small.
Methods for detection of cancer cells are mostly based on traditional techniques used in biology, such as visual identification of [...]
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