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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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Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields the pathogen from oxidative stress.
The researchers have found that the fungal protein TmpL is critical for the infection of host [...]
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Being warm enough at home might lead to better health, according to a new review appearing online in the American Journal of Public Health.
Hilary Thomson, of the Medical Research Council`s Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, and her colleagues combined the results of 40 studies from the 1930s through 2007. Improvements in [...]
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