What is ICSI infertility treatment?

When it comes to infertility, most people immediately think about in-vitro fertilization (IVF), but there’s a lesser-known fertility treatment that is used along with IVF. It’s called ICSI (pronounced ik-see) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Although ICSI has been around since the early 199…

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3 steps to treating jellyfish stings

Warmer weather is finally on the horizon, which means summer is on its way. But sun, grilling, and lazy vacations also bring beach hazards, like jellyfish. The risk of jellyfish stings threatens 150 million people worldwide annually, according to the National Science Foundation. We received the…

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This Robot Chef Has Mastered Crab Bisque

i These robotic arms are part of a modular kitchen that’s been set up so that the robot chef can find exactly what it needs. Moley Robotics hide caption itoggle caption Moley Robotics These robotic arms are part of a m…

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See Priya Cook: Gender Bias Pervades Textbooks Worldwide

i Young schoolgirls receive new notebooks and textbooks at a refugee camp in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. Many girls in Pakistan still don’t receive an education. Kimmasa Mayama/Reuters /Landov hide caption itoggle caption Kimmasa M…

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See Priya Cook: Gender Bias Pervades Textbooks Worldwide

i Young schoolgirls receive new notebooks and textbooks at a refugee camp in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. Many girls in Pakistan still don’t receive an education. Kimmasa Mayama/Reuters /Landov hide caption …

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This Robot Chef Has Mastered Crab Bisque

i These robotic arms are part of a modular kitchen that’s been set up so that the robot chef can find exactly what it needs. Moley Robotics hide caption itoggle caption Moley Robotics …

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3 steps to treating jellyfish stings

Warmer weather is finally on the horizon, which means summer is on its way. But sun, grilling, and lazy vacations also bring beach hazards, like jellyfish. The risk of jellyfish stings threatens 150 million people worldwide annually, according to the National…

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What is ICSI infertility treatment?

When it comes to infertility, most people immediately think about in-vitro fertilization (IVF), but there’s a lesser-known fertility treatment that is used along with IVF. It’s called ICSI (pronounced ik-see) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Although ICSI has been …

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Twitter may help hospitals anticipate a spike in asthma attacks

Researchers are leveraging the microblogging platform to predict the volume of asthma-related emergency room visits one Dallas hospital can expect on a given day. For those who can see beyond the chatter, Twitter contains a trove of potentially useful data, including information that…

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‘Mysterious’ disease kills 18 in Nigeria: official

A “mysterious” disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 18 lives in a southeastern Nigerian town, the government said Saturday. “Twenty-three people (were affected) and 18 deaths were recorded,” the Ondo state health commissioner, Dayo Adeyanju, told AFP. The government s…

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Synthetic pot sends hundreds to ERs in past month

Steaks and chops could be pushed to the high-end of the meat market in future, with artificial meats supplying the bulk, cheap end, research suggests.

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Setting The Record Straight On The Phrase ‘Gateway Drug’

Denise Kandel coined the term, often associated with marijuana, in a research paper 40 years ago. But her work suggested nicotine, not pot, was most likely to lead to the use of harder drugs.

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Gazing Into Those Puppy-Dog Eyes May Actually Be Good For You

Gazing into your dog’s eyes apparently triggers happy feelings in both parties – suggesting that dogs really may love us back. (This piece originally aired on All Things Considered on April 16, 2015.)

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Gazing Into Those Puppy-Dog Eyes May Actually Be Good For You

Gazing into your dog’s eyes apparently triggers happy feelings in both parties – suggesting that dogs really may love us back. (This piece originally aired on All Things Considered on April 16, 2015.)

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Setting The Record Straight On The Phrase ‘Gateway Drug’

Denise Kandel coined the term, often associated with marijuana, in a research paper 40 years ago. But her work suggested nicotine, not pot, was most likely to lead to the use of harder drugs.

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Neanderthal Study Argues The Original Paleo Diet Included Flavorful Herbs

As you’ve surely figured out by now, especially if you’re Facebook friends with any Crossfit enthusiasts, the fastest-growing diet of the past few years is the Paleo diet. It restricts adherents’ food intake to ingredients that were — at least theoretically — c…

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NYU study evaluates the influence of college experiences on career outcomes

Meaningful college experiences, including internships and studying abroad, may not matter as much as your major and what school you attend when it comes to job satisfaction and earnings, according to research by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. “Our study add…

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9 Ways ‘Wasting Time’ Can Boost Your Career

A 2014 survey from Salary.com said that 89 percent of workers waste at least some time at work each day. And although plenty of people would guess that young people would be the biggest time wasters, but actually, people 26-39 were the worst culprits. Or should that be… the best? …

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Take A Look At These Retro Nike Ads For Women

Earlier this week, Nike released its #betterforit ad spot, which said what we’re all pretty much thinking when we work out or go to the gym: What the hell am I doing? Nike has been empowering women for over 40 years and to show where the company has come from, the company also published …

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Take A Look At These Retro Nike Ads For Women

Earlier this week, Nike released its #betterforit ad spot, which said what we’re all pretty much thinking when we work out or go to the gym: What the hell am I doing? Nike has been empowering women for over 40 years and to show where the company has come from, t…

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9 Ways ‘Wasting Time’ Can Boost Your Career

A 2014 survey from Salary.com said that 89 percent of workers waste at least some time at work each day. And although plenty of people would guess that young people would be the biggest time wasters, but actually, people 26-39 were the worst culprits. Or…

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NYU study evaluates the influence of college experiences on career outcomes

Meaningful college experiences, including internships and studying abroad, may not matter as much as your major and what school you attend when it comes to job satisfaction and earnings, according to research by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human D…

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ICYMI: An Infuriating History Of Breast Cancer And The Psychological Depth Of ‘YOLO’

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. This week, we took a closer look at psychology across disciplines. We were fascinated that 18th-century doctors blamed women for their breast cancer diagnoses and disappointed that new research confirmed what many already suspected: t…

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The Most Fitness-Friendly Cities In America

Photo credit: flickr Summer is almost here and with it, many people are looking to get in better shape. Find out now: How much house can I afford? At SmartAsset, we’re all about helping people meet their biggest goals (like retirement and homeownership). That’s why we wanted to find the …

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The Most Fitness-Friendly Cities in America

Photo credit: flickr Summer is almost here and with it, many people are looking to get in better shape. Find out now: How much house can I afford? At SmartAsset, we’re all about helping people meet their biggest goals (like retirement and homeownership). That’s why we wanted to find the …

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10 Mantras From Inspirational Movies That Could Change Your Life

Inspiration can come from anywhere and anyone. Mine often comes from books and movies — books and movies that combine life stories with a spiritual journey. Here are my 10 inspirational mantras and movie quotes that may impact you the same way it does to me. 1. To live is to e…

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You Are Who Your Pet Thinks You Are

Your pet loves you unconditionally — but do you offer yourself the same courtesy? Our furry friends bring us a lot of joy (and even some health benefits) but perhaps one of their quietest, yet best qualities is what they can teach us about loving ourselves. The short of it: Look at y…

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How Poor Sleep Might Shape Mental Health Later In Life

A poor night’s sleep can affect performance at work the next day, but over time, could disrupted sleep affect brain function in a permanent way? New evidence suggests it could. A new study found that patients with issues like sleep apnea or heavy snoring developed problems with c…

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Having Both Depression And Type 2 Diabetes Increases Dementia Risk

By: Agata Blaszczak-Boxe Published: April 15, 2015 12:14pm ET on LiveScience. Adults who have either depression or type 2 diabetes may have an increased risk of developing dementia, and the risk may be even higher for people who have both conditions, according to a new study. In the…

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‘Mysterious’ disease kills 17 in Nigeria: official

A “mysterious” disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 17 lives in a southeastern Nigerian town, the government said Saturday. “Seventeen people have died of the mysterious disease since it broke out early this week in Ode-Irele town,” the government spokesman for Ondo s…

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‘Mysterious’ disease kills 17 in Nigeria: official

A “mysterious” disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 17 lives in a southeastern Nigerian town, the government said Saturday. “Seventeen people have died of the mysterious disease since it broke out early this week in Ode-Irele town,” the government spokesman for Ondo st…

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Having Both Depression And Type 2 Diabetes Increases Dementia Risk

By: Agata Blaszczak-Boxe Published: April 15, 2015 12:14pm ET on LiveScience. Adults who have either depression or type 2 diabetes may have an increased risk of developing dementia, and the risk may be even higher for people who have both conditions, according…

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How Poor Sleep Might Shape Mental Health Later In Life

A poor night’s sleep can affect performance at work the next day, but over time, could disrupted sleep affect brain function in a permanent way? New evidence suggests it could. A new study found that patients with issues like sleep apnea or heavy snoring d…

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You Are Who Your Pet Thinks You Are

Your pet loves you unconditionally — but do you offer yourself the same courtesy? Our furry friends bring us a lot of joy (and even some health benefits) but perhaps one of their quietest, yet best qualities is what they can teach us about loving ourselves. The …

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10 Mantras From Inspirational Movies That Could Change Your Life

Inspiration can come from anywhere and anyone. Mine often comes from books and movies — books and movies that combine life stories with a spiritual journey. Here are my 10 inspirational mantras and movie quotes that may impact you the same way it does to me. …

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The Most Fitness-Friendly Cities in America

Photo credit: flickr Summer is almost here and with it, many people are looking to get in better shape. Find out now: How much house can I afford? At SmartAsset, we’re all about helping people meet their biggest goals (like retirement and homeownership). T…

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The Most Fitness-Friendly Cities In America

Photo credit: flickr Summer is almost here and with it, many people are looking to get in better shape. Find out now: How much house can I afford? At SmartAsset, we’re all about helping people meet their biggest goals (like retirement and homeownership). T…

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ICYMI: An Infuriating History Of Breast Cancer And The Psychological Depth Of ‘YOLO’

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. This week, we took a closer look at psychology across disciplines. We were fascinated that 18th-century doctors blamed women for their breast cancer diagnoses and disappointed that new research confirmed what …

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Amazon tribe’s antibiotic resistance concerns experts

Miami (AFP) – A remote tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon appears to be resistant to modern antibiotics, even though its members have had barely any contact with the outside world, researchers said Friday. The people, known as the Yanomami, were first spotted by air in 2008, and were v…

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Study reveals a cause of poorer outcomes for African-American patients with breast cancer

PHILADELPHIA –Poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, compared with European-American patients, appears to be due, in part, to a strong survival mechanism within the cancer cells, according to a study being presented at the American A…

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Actress Rita Wilson credits second opinion for cancer detection

April 18, 2015, 7:37 AM|Actress and singer Rita Wilson revealed that she is recovering from a double mastectomy. The wife of Tom Hanks says a second opinion helped spot her breast cancer early. Doctors Jon LaPook and Holly Phillips join “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to tell us more. …

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Why Water Markets Might Work In California

When Australia suffered a drought in the 2000s, it set up markets to trade water rights. NPR’s Rachel Martin asks McKenzie Funk whether water markets could help California allocate its limited water. Article source: http://ift.tt/16gf97B

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Why Water Markets Might Work In California

When Australia suffered a drought in the 2000s, it set up markets to trade water rights. NPR’s Rachel Martin asks McKenzie Funk whether water markets could help California allocate its limited water.

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Actress Rita Wilson credits second opinion for cancer detection

April 18, 2015, 7:37 AM|Actress and singer Rita Wilson revealed that she is recovering from a double mastectomy. The wife of Tom Hanks says a second opinion helped spot her breast cancer early. Doctors Jon LaPook and Holly Phillips join “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to te…

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Study reveals a cause of poorer outcomes for African-American patients with breast cancer

PHILADELPHIA –Poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, compared with European-American patients, appears to be due, in part, to a strong survival mechanism within the cancer cells, according to a study being p…

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Amazon tribe’s antibiotic resistance concerns experts

Miami (AFP) – A remote tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon appears to be resistant to modern antibiotics, even though its members have had barely any contact with the outside world, researchers said Friday. The people, known as the Yanomami, were first spotted by a…

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Prevalence of K13-propeller polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum from China-Myanmar border in 2007¿2012

1 Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, PA, USA 2 Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University,…

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Breastfeeding could keep new moms tobacco free

Seventy percent of moms-to-be who quit smoking during pregnancy pick it up again within the first year after childbirth, but breastfeeding could reduce that statistic, according to a new study. “Breastfeeding seems to be a protective factor against increases in smoking after childbirth, …

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Drug use patterns associated with risk of non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive illicit drug users in a Canadian setting: a longitudinal analysis

1 BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2 Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of British C…

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BAP31, a promising target for the immunotherapy of malignant melanomas

1 Department of Immunology, Fourth Military Medical University, 169 Changle West Road, Xi¿an 710032, People Republic of China 2 Department of Cardiology, First Hospital of …

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BAP31, a promising target for the immunotherapy of malignant melanomas

1 Department of Immunology, Fourth Military Medical University, 169 Changle West Road, Xi¿an 710032, People Republic of China 2 Department of …

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Drug use patterns associated with risk of non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive illicit drug users in a Canadian setting: a longitudinal analysis

1 BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2 Division of AIDS, Department of M…

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Breastfeeding could keep new moms tobacco free

Seventy percent of moms-to-be who quit smoking during pregnancy pick it up again within the first year after childbirth, but breastfeeding could reduce that statistic, according to a new study. “Breastfeeding seems to be a protective factor against increases in …

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Prevalence of K13-propeller polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum from China-Myanmar border in 2007¿2012

1 Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, PA, USA 2 Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology,…

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Superbugs May Be Deadlier Than Cancer By 2050 — And We’re Currently Unprepared

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global problem. As infectious bacteria evolve, growing stronger than the medications used to fight them, people are now vulnerable to infections that haven’t been a threat to human health since the advent of antibiotics. In 2012, there were 450,000 c…

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Obama Signals Support For Changing Course In Federal War On Medical Marijuana

In an interview that will air for the first time this weekend as part of CNN’s latest installment of its medical marijuana documentary series “WEED 3,” President Barack Obama signals support for medical marijuana and for rolling back the federal government’s war on drugs. CNN’s chief med…

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4 Life-Changing Things I Learned By Asking Strangers If I Looked Fat

On a sunny afternoon, a group of friends and I gathered at the park and began asking women how they felt about their bodies, first by asking them, “Do these pants make me look fat?” Here’s what I learned spending an afternoon at the park asking strangers this oddly personal question: 1. …

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Stimulating Brain Waves May Boost Creativity And Ease Depression

The secret to stimulating creativity may be to literally stimulate the brain. In a new study, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were able to measurably increase creativity by altering electrical activity in the brain — a finding that may have significant i…

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It Only Takes 5 Days of Indulging in Fatty Foods to Mess with Your Muscle Function

No matter how much you try to eat healthy, things happen—you indulge in daily bacon cheeseburgers with a side of piña colada on vacation or end up ordering takeout a lot in one week. We’ve all been there, which is why we’re filing this news under “terrifying”: A new study from Virginia Tech ha…

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Novel pantothenate derivatives for anti-malarial chemotherapy

1 Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Dermatology and Radboud Institute for Molecular…

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Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among a Nigerian adult population: relationship with income level and accessibility to CVD risks screening

1 School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin 0909, Northern Territory, Australia 2 School of Community Health, Charles Sturt University,…

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Inferring slowly-changing dynamic gene-regulatory networks

In this section, we describe the model that we adopt in order to study the underlying time-varying genomic network for the T-cell data. We argue that time-course datasets should be analyzed in a way, that is sensitive to the underlying biology. If one…

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Machine-learning scoring functions for identifying native poses of ligands docked to known and novel proteins

Evaluation of scoring functions In contrast to our earlier work in improving and examining scoring and ranking accuracies of different families of SFs 3,4], this study is devoted to enhancing and comparing SFs in terms of their docking powers. Docking…

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Sparse conditional logistic regression for analyzing large-scale matched data from epidemiological studies: a simple algorithm

Conditional likelihood We are interested in the relationship between a binary outcome Y and several risk factors U = (U1, … , Up). We assume that subjects are grouped into N strata (corresponding to matched sets), consisting in one case (Yin = 1) and M controls (Yln…

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Computational algorithms to predict Gene Ontology annotations

With the aim of inferring novel gene annotations, so as to improve the quality and coverage of existing annotation datasets, we implemented the workflow depicted in Figure 1. It is mainly composed of three steps: (a) the set of available annotations is…

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Top Doctors Demand Columbia University Remove Dr. Oz From His Faculty Position

Dr. Mehmet Oz. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has not removed TV celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz from his faculty position as a group of top doctors has demanded, citing his “egregious lack of integrity” for promoting what they c…

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E-cigarette use triples among teens

April 17, 2015, 5:38 AM|New research found that electronic cigarettes became three times as popular with middle and high school students between 2013 and 2014. Plus, e-cigarettes are less likely to help smokers kick the habit. Eboni Williams reports on the day’s top h…

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Food safety tips for barbecue season

A few simple rules can help keep your barbecue safe and enjoyable.istockphotoBarbecues and picnics are synonymous with warm weather, and following food safety rules will help ensure that everyone stays healthy. “First and foremost, remember that the ‘…

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Effectiveness of new stroke treatment confirmed

A research paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) today confirms earlier findings that a procedure called endovascular therapy (ET) for ischemic stroke is the best treatment option for many patients by reducing the incidents of disability. This is…

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A game-changer for stroke treatment

Stroke is the leading cause of severe long-term disability in the United States, and less than 40 percent of patients who experience the most severe form of stroke regain functional independence if they receive the standard drug intervention alone. Now a study by an…

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Young women objectify themselves more browsing Facebook and magazines than media types

Los Angeles, CA (April 17, 2015) Though it is widely believed that the media objectifies women, women further diminish themselves by constantly comparing their bodies to others’. Regardless of how much time young women devote to viewing television, music videos and u…

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Obesity associated with prostate cancer risk in African-American men

Obesity was associated with an increased risk for prostate cancer in African American men and that risk grew by nearly four times as body-mass index (BMI) increased, according to an article published online by JAMA Oncology. African American men have the highest…

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More analysis from the women’s health initiative on hormones, breast cancer

Analysis of the longer-term influence of menopausal hormone therapy on breast cancer incidence in two Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trials suggests a pattern of changing influences over time on breast cancer, according to an article published online by JAMA O…

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India tea-sellers become unlikely heroes battling indoor air pollution

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Armed with clean energy biomass stoves, tea-sellers in India’s western city of Nashik are becoming unlikely heroes in the country’s battle against indoor air pollution by not only using the wo…

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Remote corner of Bosnia to declare itself ‘Town of Twins’

By Daria Sito-Sucic BUZIM, Bosnia (Reuters) – When Nedzib Vucelj’s wife Emira gave birth to twins at the height of the Bosnian war, it was impossible to buy a suitable baby stroller: their hometown of Buzim was surrounded by rival armies. …

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Village women run safe water franchises in arsenic-hit India, Bangladesh

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rural housewives in countries such as India and Bangladesh, where ground water has high levels of arsenic, are being encouraged to set up businesses to sell safe water to save lives in their c…

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Rolls-Royce wins $9.2 billion engine order from Emirates for A380s

LONDON (Reuters) – Rolls-Royce said it had won a $9.2 billion order to supply engines for 50 A380 aircraft for Dubai’s Emirates airline [EMIRA.UL], providing a boost for the British company after a torrid year of profit warnings. Rolls-Royce said …

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Evidence grows that melanoma drugs benefit some lung cancer patients

A subset of lung cancer patients can derive important clinical benefits from drugs that are more commonly used to treat melanoma, the authors of a new academic clinical trial in Europe have reported at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Oliver Gautschi, a…

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Dog flu outbreak gained foothold at urban doggie day cares

Canine influenza virus (CIV) has affected at least 1,000 dogs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana in the last month, including one confirmed case in the Madison area. Previously thought to be caused by the H3N8 strain, … Article source: h…

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Do health apps really have the capacity to help the healthy?

Health apps and connected health devices are all the rage at the moment. Do they, however, present any benefits to users who aren’t sick? Two doctors each presented their points of view in a recently published report. Diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, weight loss… there seem to be a…

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