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(NOAA Headquarters) A new study funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation reveals that a part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates Washington state from Canada’s British Columbia, is a potential “hot spot” for toxic harmful algal blooms affecting the Washington and British Columbia coasts. Understanding where and how these blooms [...]
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(Brown University) Brown University biomedical engineers, using a 3-D Petri dish they invented, have successfully built complex-shaped microtissues by assembling small building blocks of living cell clusters. The finding, to be published in the March 1 edition of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, helps advance the field of tissue engineering and could reduce the need for some [...]
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) In what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor’s vagina.
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(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Researchers conducting a large, ongoing study to improve detection and prevention of sudden cardiac death were surprised to discover that a specific heart rhythm abnormality — idiopathic QT interval prolongation — increased risk five-fold among patients with coronary artery disease.
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(Texas A&M AgriLife Communications) Repeated inflammation that leads to colon cancer may have met its match. A tiny molecule, quercetin, found in most plant-based foods douses the flames before damaging lesions can form in the colon, says Dr. Nancy Turner, Texas AgriLife Research scientist. And the nice thing is that quercetin is readily [...]
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(University of Delaware) Exercising to strengthen your quadriceps after knee replacement surgery can boost the function of your new knee to nearly that of a healthy adult your age. It’s a simple thing, but such rehab isn’t common practice.
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(American Dietetic Association) The February issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association features research studies focusing on everyday eating habits of consumers.
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PITTSBURGH (MedPage Today) — Black parents are more likely to distrust both physicians and medical researchers than white parents, and that may be a barrier to clinical trials that include African-American children, researchers found.
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Bipolar disorders appear to increase the risk of early death from a medical illness, according to a literature review study published as the lead article this week in the journal Psychiatric Services.
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Rajesh Gokhale has created a compound in his lab in India that stops tuberculosis in its tracks.
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