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Mouse model shows promising Alzheimer’s treatment
A new study, published in Science Translational Medicine, found a potentially effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Using a mouse model of neurodegeneration due to prion disease, scientists administered an oral therapy to inhibit the pathway of prion replication.
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Craze Workout Supplement Contains Dangerous Amounts Of Meth-Like Drug
A new study of the workout supplement Craze shows it contains dangerous amounts of methamphetamine analog, researchers said.
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Gold-Plated Nanoparticles Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells
In a recently published study, researchers from Cornell University detail how they developed gold-plated nanoparticles that are able to find and destroy cancer cells. Comparable to nano-scale Navy Seals, Cornell scientists have merged tiny gold and iron oxide particles to work as a team..
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Can air conditioning make you sick?
Many people assume that cold weather brings on the common cold, because it is during the wintertime that people get sick more frequently. It’s a common myth that has been disproven in the medical field — colds are more common in the wintertime because people often stay indoors in close quarters, thereby allowing germs to thrive and move more freely from person to person. It is a virus, not cold weather, than causes someone to get sick.
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Scientists discover new super toxin so dangerous, they’re keeping it secret
There was a huge controversy last year surrounding publication of a paper in Science about the bird flu virus. The paper basically described how bird flu can be made more virulent. The same drama is now being played out once again, only this time it involves a particularly nasty variety of the botulinum bacteria, which happens to be the same class of bacteria used in Botox injections.
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Doctor Behind Jolie’s Double Mastectomy Speaks Out
The doctor behind Angelina Jolie’s breast reconstructive surgery spoke out publicly for the first time about his patient at a Breast Reconstruction Awareness event in Miami Wednesday night.
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Air pollution causes cancer, says World Health Organization
The United Nations agency in charge of researching cancer makes no bones about it: Air pollution is killing us. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the UN's World Health Organization, this week classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans. Specifically, the IARC links air pollution to lung cancer as well as an increased risk of bladder cancer.
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The problem with taking too many vitamins
Millions of people swear by vitamin supplements. But many are wasting their time and some could even be harming themselves, argues Dr Chris van Tulleken.
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Foods every breast cancer survivor should know about
Women checking in for appointments at the Comprehensive Breast Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York this month are being offered more than a pre-op or post-op surgical visit.
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Nearly 800 surgical tools left in patients since 2005
A new report warns nearly 800 people have had surgical instruments left in them following a procedure since 2005, putting them at risk for serious harm. The report comes from The Joint Commission, a nonprofit health care safety watchdog. The organization takes hospitals to task for improper or inadequate protocols that lead to equipment like sponges, towels, needles, instruments, retractors and other small items and fragments of tools in patients.
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9 Weird and Unreliable Ways to Avoid Burying Someone Alive
How can you be sure that someone is really, truly dead? Before the age of modern medicine, it was much more difficult for physicians to confirm that someone had died, and researchers developed all sorts of tests for telling living people apart from corpses. Many of these tests were pretty odd, and a good number simply didn't work.
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Life After Death? New Methods Halt Dying Process
The line between life and death is not as clear as once thought, now that developments in the science of resuscitation have made it possible to revive people even hours after their heart has stopped beating and they are declared dead, medical experts say.
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IBM's Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors
Watson, IBM claims, is better at cancer diagnosis than human doctors, and its deployment could also reduce healthcare costs.
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Tennessee Man Cries Blood
A Tennessee man uncontrollably cries blood, leaving him without a job and out of school. 29-year-old Michael Spann of Antioch, Tennessee began crying blood at the age of 22, a rare condition that also sent blood out of his mouth and ears. "I have a condition that I get these really bad headaches, and along with the headaches I bleed from my eyes," Spann told The Tennessean.
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Men Have Biological Clocks, Too
Male infertility clinics are filled with fertile men. At least, that’s what they tell themselves. So found Cambridge University sociologist Liberty Walther Barnes who set out in 2007 to study male infertility. Barnes spent more than 100 hours tracking urologists and infertility experts in five U.S. male fertility clinics, observing daily interactions with patients and interviewing reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists, nurses, genetic counselors, and psychologists.
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Researchers transplant human hair onto mice using infant foreskins
Could a cure for baldness be on the horizon? Columbia University researchers were able to grow human hair on mice using transplanted skin cells from discarded infant foreskins.
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FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkillers
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.
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New cancer risk gene found
A new cancer risk gene has been discovered which explains the early-onset in some multiple-case breast cancer families. The international team of investigators led by the University of Melbourne, identified rare mutations in the RINT1 gene to increase risk of breast and many other cancers.
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Army's Amazing Exoskeleton Restores Power to Injured Legs
After surgery, military personnel whose legs have been crushed or blasted can end up with a limb that looks healthy but is debilitated by pain and weakness. Some patients even ask for amputations. The Army solution is a sort of scaffold for intact but malfunctioning legs called the Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis, and now, thanks to a company called Hangar, it’s going to be available to civilians too.
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A Brief History of Painkillers (And Why They Work)
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without pain relief. We depend on these drugs to an unspeakable degree, yet few of us know what’s available or how they even work. Here’s a quick primer on painkillers and why they’re so good at easing the pain.
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