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Third Coast Reflexology Of Chicago In Collaboration With Resurrection Center For Integrative Medicine Provides Relief For Signs And Symptoms Of Stress
16.07.2008 07:11
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How can your feet lead you directly to a treatment that can help heal your entire body? By experiencing Third Coast Reflexology of Chicago, an integrative health approach that alleviates stress and pain and promotes wellness. Research in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) shows that stress causes 90% of all illness.
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Depression
Means Of Reducing Alzheimer's-Like Plaques In Fly Brain Demonstrated By Scientists
16.07.2008 07:11
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Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are part of a collaboration that has succeeded in demonstrating that overexpression of an enzyme in the brain can reduce telltale deposits causally linked with Alzheimer's disease. CSHL Professor Yi Zhong, Ph.D., whose lab studies genetic mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative illnesses, helped develop a line of transgenic fruit flies that was central in the experiments.
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Alzheimer's Disease
Climate Change Means More Kidney Stones Say Scientists
16.07.2008 06:12
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US researchers say that kidney stones may become more common as the temperature rises across North America and causes more people to become dehydrated. The study is the work of researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and is published in the 15th July issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Urology
Contests To Quit Smoking Don't Work In Long Run
16.07.2008 06:12
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Face it: we all have our price. Still, despite prizes ranging from lottery tickets to cash payments, quit-smoking contests do not help people kick the habit in the end, according to a new systematic review of studies. None of the 17 studies, which involved roughly 6,300 participants, demonstrated significantly higher long-term quit rates for smokers offered incentives, despite some creative approaches.
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Smoking
Studies Suggest, But Don't Confirm, Bullying-Suicide Connection
16.07.2008 06:11
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Researchers have repeatedly found signs of an apparent connection between bullying and suicide in children, according to a new review of studies from 13 countries. Nevertheless, there is no definitive evidence that bullying makes kids more likely to kill themselves. Still, "once we see that there's an association, we can act on it and try to prevent it," said review lead author Dr. Young-Shin Kim, an assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center.
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Psychiatry
Peers Important For Nutrition Education Among Latinos - Direct Impact On Diabetes Self-Management And Breastfeeding, USA
16.07.2008 06:11
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A systematic literature review conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Connecticut, the Hispanic Health Council (Hartford), and the Connecticut Center for Eliminating Health Disparities among Latinos assessed the impact of peer education/counseling on nutrition and health outcomes among Latinos living in the United States.
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Children Diseases
Deliberations Continue On Complex Topic Of Infant Euthanasia
16.07.2008 06:11
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The legal and ethical debate about infant euthanasia continues to rage on worldwide, with countries adopting vastly different laws for cases involving newborns with devastating illnesses. In the May-June 2008 issue of Pediatric Nursing journal, Anita J. Catlin and Renee Novakovich analyze this controversial issue and describe how a protocol in The Netherlands has influenced opinions in the United States.
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Children Diseases
No Single Approach Keeps Tobacco Away From Minors
16.07.2008 06:11
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Tobacco addiction starts early, and public health experts agree that it is important to keep tobacco out of the hands of adolescents. Still, what works for prevention is a matter of controversy, and a new systematic review suggests that there is no clear answer. Review authors Lindsay Stead and Tim Lancaster at the University of Oxford examined 35 studies to determine whether programs targeting shopkeepers who sold tobacco to minors actually reduced how much teens smoked.
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Children Diseases
A Shortcut For Communication Between Brain Cells - Understanding How Neurons Communicate May Help Treat Brain Disorders
16.07.2008 06:11
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For the first time, Weill Cornell scientists have learned important details illustrating how neuronal cells in the brain communicate at a microcellular level. Such knowledge may help in the development of drug compounds used to treat disorders caused by malfunctions in communication between brain cells, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. Their findings are published in the June 25 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
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Neurology
Summation Of Perceptual Cues In Natural Visual Scenes
16.07.2008 06:11
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Observers viewed pairs of slightly different photographs of natural scenes, rating the perceptual difference between them. If an image pair differs in two ways, how big is the perceptual difference compared to when images differ in only one way? It is well established that detection thresholds for combinations of sinusoidal gratings are empirically governed by "Quick pooling" or "Minkowski summation".
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Neurology
Convergence And Divergence Are Mostly Reciprocated Properties Of The Connections In The Network Of Cortical Areas
16.07.2008 06:11
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Our study shows that measuring the degree of convergence/divergence through the connections is an effective tool in exploring integrative properties of the network elements. We used this tool to study cortical integration in the network of areas. It was found that convergent and divergent connections are predominantly reciprocal and they form two complementary subnetworks as suggested by the backward and forward processing schemes in hierarchical models.
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Neurology
Discovery Of Resistance To Widely-Used Antibiotics Among Inhabitants Of Remote South American Villages
16.07.2008 06:11
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Resistance to ciprofloxacin, a member of one of the most commonly used groups of antibiotics in the world, has been discovered by a team of Canadian researchers among people in remote South American villages who are believed to have never taken this medication. The findings are published July 16 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.
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Infectious Diseases
Identification Of Mechanism Behind Mind-Body Connection Explains How Chronic Emotional Stress Ages The Immune System
16.07.2008 06:11
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BACKGROUND: Every cell contains a tiny clock called a telomere, which shortens each time the cell divides. Short telomeres are linked to a range of human diseases, including HIV, osteoporosis, heart disease and aging. Previous studies show that an enzyme within the cell, called telomerase, keeps immune cells young by preserving their telomere length and ability to continue dividing.
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Immunology
Unimmunized Kids Less Likely To Get Chickenpox If Vaccinated After Exposure
16.07.2008 06:11
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"Better late than never" might be a true statement when it comes to vaccinating children for chickenpox, according to a new review of studies. Only 18 percent of children given the vaccine within the 3 days following exposure to chickenpox developed the infection, compared with 78 percent of children who had received an inactive placebo or no vaccine.
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Immunology
All Sweeteners Not The Same For Managing Type 2 Diabetes
16.07.2008 06:10
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Recent research by Kalidas Shetty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lena Galvez Ranilla of the University of San Paolo, Brazil, shows that when it comes to managing Type 2 diabetes, all sweeteners may not be the same. Some sweeteners, including date sugar and less refined, dark brown sugars, showed potential for managing Type 2 diabetes and related complications information that could help Type 2 diabetics make better dietary choices.
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Diabetes
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