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Contact: Lorinda Klein Lorindaann.Klein@nyumc.org NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine H. pylori may strengthen the immune system NEW YORK, July...

89 percent of children’s food products provide poor nutritional quality

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Re-Post 2008 Contact: Annette Whibley wizard.media@virgin.net Wiley-Blackwell But 62 percent of them still make health claims on the packaging Nine out of ten regular food...

Androgen deprivation therapy for localized prostate cancer not associated with improved survival

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Re-Post 2008 Contact: Michele Fisher 732-235-9872 JAMA and Archives Journals A therapy that involves depriving the prostate gland the male hormone androgen is not associated...

35th Health Research Report 22 JUL 2008 – Reconstruction

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Editors Top Five: 1. Environmental pollutant has sex-skewing effect 2. Stomach bug appears to protect kids from asthma, says NYU study 3. Cranberry juice...

Back to school: Is higher education making you fat?

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Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism 17 September 2012 Click here for the PDF version of this press release Ottawa, Canada – A new study published...

Scores at risk as new breed of mosquito foils malaria prevention methods: There is NO KNOWN DNA match

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Published: 16 September, 2012, 21:14 Annual deaths could jump by the hundreds of thousands because of a new species of mosquito, which bites people in...

A fertility treatment which eliminates hereditary disease by engineering babies to carry healthy DNA from a third biological parent could be legalised next year.

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'Three-parent baby' fertility technique could be made legal DNA sequence transparency Photo: ALAMY By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent 12:01AM BST 17 Sep 2012 Members...

Police could create image of suspect’s face from DNA

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11:40 14 September 2012 by Andy Coghlan For similar stories, visit the Genetics Topic Guide Police may one day be able to reconstruct the shape...

Slices of brain tissue can store patterns of activity for short periods of time: scientists

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By Mo Costandi, The Guardian Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:44 EDT Topics: activity patterns ♦ Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland ♦ Ohio It sounds...

Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells : Reduces Glial progenitor cells

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Re-post 34th HRR 2008 Contact: Tom Rickey tom_rickey@urmc.rochester.edu 585-275-7954 University of Rochester Medical Center Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an...

Drug companies do almost no innovation : Innovation comes mainly from NIH-supported research in academic medical centers

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Re-Posted for Filing 2008 report New report: The truth about drug innovation New York, NY: A new report co-authored by Manhattan Institute senior fellow...

Blue light used to harden tooth fillings stunts tumor growth

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Re-Post 2008 Contact: Amy Connell aconnell@mcg.edu 706-721-8605 Georgia Health Sciences University A blue curing light used to harden dental fillings also may stunt tumor growth,...

Newborn vitamin A reduces infant mortality by 15%

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Contact: Tim Parsons tmparson@jhsph.edu 410-955-7619 Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after...

34th Health Research Report 08 JUL 2008 – Reconstruction

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Editors Top Five: 1. Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells2. Cholesterol drugs recommended for some 8-year-olds3. Newborn vitamin A...

Half of drugs prescribed in France useless or dangerous, say two specialists

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The doctors claim that the state wastes money on unnecessary medicine that they blame for up to 20,000 deaths annually Kim Willsher in Paris guardian.co.uk, Friday 14...

Mentally ill to be allowed to become MPs, serve on juries and be company directors

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MPs have voted to end 'discrimination' which stops those suffering from mental illness serving in public life as a rare private members bill is backed...

Having a tonsillectomy can cause Obesity

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Contact: David March dmarch1@jhmi.edu 410-955-1534 Johns Hopkins Medicine Age, not underlying diagnosis, key factor in weight gain in children after tonsillectomy Potentially worrisome weight gains...

Short wavelength illumination (primarily LED lighting) can result in various illnesses and adverse symptoms

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Lights out? Published by Editor at 1:43 pm under Home Page, Press Releases An international conference at the University of Haifa has called attention to...

‘Spin’ in media reports of scientific articles: 47% of articles contain ‘Spin”