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Omega-3 Fatty Acids Can Reduce Premature Birth Risk

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Can Reduce Premature Birth Risk

Increasing the consumption of omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy reduces the chances of having a premature baby, reports a new study. The findings ...

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New Shoe Insole Technology Can Heal Diabetic Ulcers Better While Walking

New Shoe Insole Technology Can Heal Diabetic Ulcers Better While Walking

Novel shoe insole technology shows potential in healing diabetic foot ulcers better even while walking, reports a new study. The findings of the ...

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Vitamin D Does Not Prevent Cancer or Cardiovascular Disease

Vitamin D Does Not Prevent Cancer or Cardiovascular Disease

Highlights: The study investigates whether vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease (CVD) Even after ...

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Transmissible Nature of Tobacco Smoking

Transmissible Nature of Tobacco Smoking

Friends and family were found to increase the risk of children becoming smokers in the UK, revealed findings come from a new study carried out at ...

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Dry Eye Syndrome Slows Reading Rate

Dry Eye Syndrome Slows Reading Rate

Dry eye syndrome or chronic dry eye can slow reading rate and disrupt day to day tasks that require visual concentration for long periods of time, ...

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Home-based Visits can Benefit Rural Patients with Kidney Disease

Home-based Visits can Benefit Rural Patients with Kidney Disease

Rural patients' daily diabetes and kidney disease care can be improved when trained community health representatives make home visits, reveals a new ...

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Leigh Syndrome: New Findings

Leigh Syndrome: New Findings

The inherited mutation in the Barnett family, a change in one nuclear gene that arose spontaneously generations ago among both parents' Ashkenazi ...

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Observing Mutations in MicroRNAs That can Contribute to Diseases

Observing Mutations in MicroRNAs That can Contribute to Diseases

Disturbance in the normal function of microRNAs can alter the expression of their target genes which is known to be associated with a wide variety of ...

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Gene Editing Technique Finds Applications in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Gene Editing Technique Finds Applications in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

The CRISPR, the genome-editing technique promises to be a ‘transformative leap’ in every area of medicine that includes - plastic surgery, with ...

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Deodorant Spray: New Inhalant Abuse can be Fatal

Deodorant Spray: New Inhalant Abuse can be Fatal

A teenager has died after inhaling deodorant spray to get high, details a case report. Deodorant spray is one of several common household ...

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How Liking and Sharing Alcohol Ads Might Provoke Someone's Desire to Drink?

How Liking and Sharing Alcohol Ads Might Provoke Someone's Desire to Drink?

Facebook advertisements could be promoting alcohol abuse without even knowing it; these advertisements have been found to increase the desire to ...

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Exercise Can Help Fight Drug Addiction

Exercise Can Help Fight Drug Addiction

Drug addicts who exercise are less vulnerable to the environment which remind them of their drug-related cues, reports a new mice study. The findings ...

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Sex Education Before College Linked to Lower Sexual Assault Risk

Sex Education Before College Linked to Lower Sexual Assault Risk

Students who had received sexuality education including refusal skills training before college matriculation were found to be at lower risk of ...

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LGBT Youth Study: Parents Still Tend to Pray the Gay Away

LGBT Youth Study: Parents Still Tend to Pray the Gay Away

Most parents force youngsters of LGBT community to undergo conversion therapy (back to normal), they even tend to involve therapists, and religious ...

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Culturally Tailored Intervention Increases HPV Vaccination of Asian-American Adolescents

Culturally Tailored Intervention Increases HPV Vaccination of Asian-American Adolescents

A culturally tailored multilevel strategy designed by scientists significantly increased human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake among low-income, ...

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Are Dietary Fats Good or Bad for Health?

Are Dietary Fats Good or Bad for Health?

Low fat/high carbohydrate diet, high fat/low carbohydrate diet, or the type of fat that is consumed, which one matters the most for a healthy life? ...

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Gut Bacteria Varies in Himalayan Populations

Gut Bacteria Varies in Himalayan Populations

Gut bacteria of the four Himalayan populations was found to be different based on their dietary lifestyles, reveals a new study by a research team at ...

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Smart 15 Strategies for Dining Out with Food Allergies

Smart 15 Strategies for Dining Out with Food Allergies

Most people love eating out, but dining out at restaurants or a dinner party is tough for people with severe allergies and intolerances. If you have ...

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Senior Health News

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New Guidelines for Sarcopenia Detection and Treatment

New Guidelines for Sarcopenia Detection and Treatment

New guidelines for the early detection and treatment of sarcopenia was established by the experts of Newcastle University. Sarcopenia is a ...

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Abstract Reasoning Ability Predicts Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults

Abstract Reasoning Ability Predicts Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults

In later adulthood, monitoring for cognitive decrements may expedite efforts to reduce associated increases in depression risk, stated research ...

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Exercise Intervention Benefits Older Hospitalized Patients: Study

Exercise Intervention Benefits Older Hospitalized Patients: Study

Exercise intervention was found to reverse the functional decline associated with hospitalization for older patients, revealed a randomized clinical ...

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Heart Disease News

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Strength Training Improves Heart Functions

Strength Training Improves Heart Functions

Even though physical activity is known to improve the heart functions, neither research nor recommendations have been documented till date to ...

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Migraines With Visual Aura Linked to Irregular Heartbeat Risk

Migraines With Visual Aura Linked to Irregular Heartbeat Risk

Migraines that affect vision were found to boost the risk of irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, according to a study published in the ...

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One Hour of Weightlifting a Week May Cut Your Risk for Heart Attack

One Hour of Weightlifting a Week May Cut Your Risk for Heart Attack

One hour of lifting weights a week may decrease your risk for heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, reports a new study. The findings of the ...

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Organ Donation News

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Can Marijuana Users Donate Their Kidneys?

Can Marijuana Users Donate Their Kidneys?

Usage of marijuana by kidney donors was found to have no measurable effect upon the outcomes of kidney transplants for donors or recipients, reveals ...

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Flu-like Symptomatic Disease Claims a Second Indian Student’s Life in Dubai

Flu-like Symptomatic Disease Claims a Second Indian Student’s Life in Dubai

A 17-year-old Indian student died in Dubai after showing flu-like symptoms. The teenage girl studied in an Indian school there. The teenage girl ...

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Delhi Man Gets New Life

Delhi Man Gets New Life

A 34-year old man in New Delhi got a new lease of life after police created a 3.6-km green corridor to help a hospital carry a human heart in 3.28 ...

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