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How does stress increase risk for stroke, heart attack?
Scientists have shown that anger, anxiety, and depression not only affect the functioning of the heart, but also increase the risk for heart disease. Stroke and heart attacks are the...
Glutamine ratio is key ovarian cancer indicator
An analysis of the metabolic profiles of hundreds of ovarian tumors has revealed a new method for tailoring treatments for ovarian cancer and for assessing whether ovarian cancer cells have...
World's smallest cardiac pacemaker implanted
The world's smallest pacemaker has been implanted as part of a global clinical trial. The procedure was the first of its kind in the United States Midwest. One-tenth the size...
Drinking, Even Casual Amounts, Poses Much Greater Risk for Advanced Liver Disease in HIV/Hepatitis C Patients
There is a much stronger association between alcohol use and advanced liver fibrosis in co-infected patients compared to uninfected, research has demonstrated. Even light ("nonhazardous") drinking -- which typically poses...
UK Children Have One Of The Highest Death Rates In Western Europe
Although, by international standards, the UK has very low rates of deaths in children, within western Europe the UK has a higher rate of deaths in children than nearly every...
Scientists Hold Hope For New Measles Drug
A new oral antiviral drug may be a future tool in the global fight against measles, according to a new international study.
Allergy Medications: Which Drugs Treat Which Symptoms
Seasonal allergies can be treated with OTC medicines, prescription drugs and natural remedies. Learn which medications address which symptoms.
What does human meat taste like?
After a hoax in which a German restaurant appeared willing to serve spare body parts as gourmet meals, I tackle the burning question of the day: what does human flesh...
The New Old Age Blog: A New Benefit for Heart Failure Patients
Medicare now pays for cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure patients. But will they use it?
Concerns grow over deadly pig virus
France is expected to suspend some pig-related imports as worries grow over the spread of a deadly swine virus.
Pediatricians call for a Vitamin K tracking system for babies not getting shots
Doctors have seen a rise in late-onset vitamin K deficiency bleeding in young infants due to parents declining the shot at birth, and are calling for a tracking system of...
Exploring genetics behind Alzheimer's resiliency
Autopsies have revealed that some individuals develop the cellular changes indicative of Alzheimer's disease without ever showing clinical symptoms in their lifetime. Additionally, memory researchers have discovered a potential genetic...
Key protein enhances memory, learning
A protein previously implicated in disease plays such a positive role in learning and memory that it may someday contribute to cures of cognitive impairments, researchers have discovered. The findings...
Better sleep predicts longer survival time for women with advanced breast cancer
A new study reports that sleep efficiency, a ratio of time asleep to time spent in bed, is predictive of survival time for women with advanced breast cancer. According to...
Harry Truman Agreed With Me, Says Chairman of House Science Panel
Representative Lamar Smith responds to critics of his FIRST bill altering NSF grantsmaking
A Transcription Factor Called SLUG Helps Determines Type Of Breast Cancer
Findings and Significance: During breast-tissue development, a transcription factor called SLUG plays a role in regulating stem cell function and determines whether breast cells will mature into luminal or basal...
Judge orders treatment for Ohio transgender inmate
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A transgender prison inmate who complained about losing her breast tissue and growing facial hair after her hormone treatments were stopped must...
UAB Researcher Finds That Male Scent Stresses Out Lab Rodents
Women have no effect on mice, but men cause a stress level comparable to a three-minute swim. Results indicate that researchers should account for these variables.
HIV non-disclosure charges not science-based, doctors say
Miscarriages of justice could result from a poor appreciation of the latest evidence on how HIV transmits, say a group of Canadian HIV physicians and medical researchers who want to...
Top Stories: Innocence on Death Row, Missing Frog Fathers, and Antibiotic Resistance
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Egyptian Governor Blames Obama for Burned Churches
In Upper Egypt frustration leads to sectarianism and anti-Americanism.
Bioterror Threat? New Smallpox-Related Virus Raises Alarms
The CDC has announced that a new orthopoxvirus has been discovered in two men from the nation of Georgia in western Asia. Though both men survived the disease, disease experts...
'Twins' born five years apart
Floren Blake born from same batch of fertility treatment embryos as her five-year-old brother, Reuben Continue reading...
New smart phone apps help doctors manage pain patients
Mobile medicine is helping chronic pain patients cope with and manage their condition thanks to new smartphone apps, which can track patients from a distance and monitor pain, mood, physical...
New form of treatment to reduce risk of surgery-related ischemic brain injury?
Ischemic brain injury due to heart and vascular surgery causes more than 100,000 deaths annually in Europe and the United States. In addition, approximately 10–20% of patients undergoing heart and...
How bacteria exploit proteins to trigger potentially lethal infections
The way bacteria exploits human proteins during infections has recently become better understood, thanks to new research. Scientists studied how Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause life-threatening human infections, attach to...
Study shows link between sleep apnea, hospital maternal deaths
Pregnant women with obstructive sleep apnea are more than five times as likely to die in the hospital as those without the sleep disorder, a comprehensive American national study found....
3 Common Nutrition Myths Dispelled
Eating healthy can be difficult with so many myths about nutrition around. Here is the truth behind some common myths about health eating.