Articles Posted in the Health – Medicine Category
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Why women have breasts growing?
While more women buy their underwear measure L, experts are wondering what causes this increase in breast, becoming more evident. One possible answer is fat. “Fat is deposited on breasts as much as thighs or…
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Exoskeleton arm that helps at work
People who use their arms a lot in within the job will be part of an unexpected help: an exoskeleton arm that reduce fatigue and increase productivity. Equipois company has created over time tools to…
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Babies food allergies – First born are more susceptible
A new study conducted by a team of Japanese researchers shows that first borns are more susceptible to allergies. A team of pediatricians at the University from Kyoto, studied 13,000 children aged between 7 and…
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Measuring body fat – new method
For nearly 200 years, body mass index (BMI) was used as the main method to find out “how fat you are.”. Now, Professor Richard Bergman at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA,…
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Tonsillectomy helps children sleep better
In the 50s and 60s tonsillectomy was seen as a true ritual of passage in childhood, being the most commonly practiced surgery in the United States. The tonsils are two glands located in the throat…
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Laugh helps to cure varicose ulcer
In some cases, a good care with classical methods, plus a healthy dose of laughing, do more than advanced technology, at least when it comes to varicose ulcers, British doctors had discovered. A study conducted…
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Spinal Cord Injury: Human Cells Derived from Stem Cells Restore Movement on Animal
For the first time, scientists discovered that a specific type of human cell, generated from stem cells and transplanted into spinal cord injured rats, provide tremendous benefit, not only repairing damage to the nervous system…
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Liver, Not Brain, May Be Origin of Alzheimer’s Plaques
Unexpected results from a Scripps Research Institute and ModGene, LLC study could completely alter scientists’ ideas about Alzheimer’s disease — pointing to the liver instead of the brain as the source of the “amyloid” that…
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Scientists Show How Men Amp Up Their X Chromosome
Vive la différence? Not at the level of DNA. Men must increase gene expression on their lone X-chromosome to match the two X’s possessed by women. A new study explains just how men manage to…
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Newborn Heart Muscle Can Grow Back by Itself, Study Shows
In a promising science-fiction-meets-real-world juxtaposition, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely. Researchers, working with mice, found that a portion of the heart removed during…