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The temperature might not be the only thing plummeting this winter. Many people also will experience a decrease in their vitamin D levels, which can play a role in heart disease, according to a new review article in Circulation.
Vitamin D deficiency results in part from reduced exposure to sunlight, which is common during cold weather [...]
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No one takes out the trash in space. In the cramped living quarters of a space station, garbage can pile up, spoil and become a health hazard for astronauts.
There has never been a good system for dealing with space waste — the space shuttle now brings full trash bags back to Earth; on the Russian [...]
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Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites — Facebook and MySpace are the most popular — and using these sites to explore their emerging identities, UCLA psychologists report. Parents often understand very little about this phenomenon, they say.
"People can use these sites to explore who they are by posting particular images, [...]
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Doctors know that you’re at a higher risk for breast, colon and prostate cancers if they’ve been found in your family. Brain cancer can now be placed on that same list, says a new study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Utah.
Dr. Deborah Blumenthal, co-director of Tel Aviv University’s Neuro-oncology Service at the [...]
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Having a large waistline can almost double your risk of dying prematurely even if your body mass index is within the `normal` range, according to a new study of over 350,000 people across Europe, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The study provides strong evidence that storing excess fat around the waist poses a [...]
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