Synopsis: 5. medicine & health: Medicine:


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if the robot is useful for kids about to undergo surgery. We have ideas for adults.


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You can find it in surgical sutures, flexible electronics, and other biologically friendly applications. And soon you might be finding it in your food.


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a $100 billion orbiting laboratory for medical, materials science and other research. China, the only other country that has flown people in orbit,


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A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up,

Economists to the rescue Lustig, a medical doctor in UCSF s Department of Pediatrics, compares added sugar to tobacco


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The $10 million prize will go to the first person that can create a Star trek-like medical tricorder#.


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Their growing numbers and increasing medical needs will require a different kind of health care professionals to take care of them.


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these days it is common, thanks to advanced medicine, to live a healthy life well into your 90s and beyond.

and medical implants) can be produced for a fraction of their traditional manufacture costs. The true cost of any product is now the amount it takes to download the design schematics.


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The ultimate goal is to introduce beneficial genes into larger animals to create less costly and more efficient medicines.#


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by the early 2020#s. Health and medicine have been a hit or miss up until recently.

Health and medicine is now an information technology and is therefore subject to what I call the#oelaw of accelerating returns,


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Some convert sugar into medicines. Others create moisturizers that can be used in cosmetics. And still others make biofuel,

Could they tinker with some genes in the yeast to create a biological machine capable of producing medicine?


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head of the three-year project,#oethere would have to be a lot of toxicology tests done first but


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Consumers in the U s. are increasing their sodium consumption by 63 mg per day every two years, according to Medical Daily.


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Even without surgery, they can still be enhanced optically!..Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati o


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#Science might have gotten it wrong. Now what? The debate started in late 2011, when Chen-Yu Zhang s team f found bits of rice RNA floating in the bloodstreams of Chinese men and women.

The study had big implications for medicine and our food supply. For instance, it suggested that researchers might be able to design oral RNA drugs for a host of diseases,#oeone of the holy grails#of the field,


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Dermatology). ) 7.)The color of your snot doesn t indicate if you have a bacterial or viral infection.

University of Arkansas for Medical sciences. 13.)) It is possible to stand an egg on its head on any day of the year, not just on the Spring equinox.

Journal of American Board of Family Medicine. 15.)) Organic food isn t free of pesticides. However, pesticide levels on both organic and non organic foods are so low that they aren t of concern, according to the USDA.

British Medical Journal. 17.)) Lightning does strike twice. And some places, like the Empire state Building, get struck up to 100 times a year.

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives In Medicine. 24.)) Dogs and cats don t see in shades of grey.


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an associate professor of medicine at UCLA s David Geffen School of medicine and lead author of the study.#

mental and neurological disorders, said Dr. Emeran Mayer, a professor of medicine, physiology and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA and the study s senior author.#


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Scientific advances like the microprocessor and new medicines have been key in lifting millions of people around the world out of poverty.


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The idea, known as the hygiene hypothesis, was proposed first in 1989 by epidemiologist David P. Strachen,

#says Michael Zasloff, an immunologist and physician at Georgetown University Medical center. Through exposure to these microbes early in life, your immune system learns what s harmful and


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or genetically modified animals used in medical research. As the authors note in the study:#


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After all, I m following the evidence-based advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The guidance is based on studies that found children who consumed low-fat milk as part of a reduced-saturated-fat diet had lower concentrations of LDL cholesterol.

a sister publication of The british Medical Journal, finds that low-fat milk was associated with higher weight. That s right, kids drinking low-fat milk tended to be heavier.#

#says Dr. Stephen Daniels, a pediatrician at the University of Colorado and member of the AAP s Committee on Nutrition.#


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including gene therapy in medicine, the generation of improved agricultural goods, and the engineering of energy-producing microbes,

At a scientific conference, she struck up a friendship with Jennifer Doudna, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC Berkeley.

Sangamo Biosciences has been working to commercialize the earlier zinc finger nuclease technology as a form of medicine for more than a decade.


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#And in Arizona,#oethe Pima County Public library offers on-site expert medical help, making the library the first in the nation to employ a public health nurse on site.

Libraraoke#karaoke at library Nifty Needlers Stone carving Tie-dying Online shopping Couch to 5k running club Yoga Zumba Qigong Acupuncture Pottery


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however tenous, in his classic 1984 study with patients recovering from gall bladder removal surgery in a suburban Pennsylvania hospital.

They even had slightly fewer surgical complications. Environmental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan attributed nature s apparent restorative ability to something they termed#oesoft fascination#:


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Hyper-Individualized Medicine Professor Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow believes we will soon be using 3d printers to replace traditional pharmaceuticals with hyper-individualized medicines that are printed specifically for the person at the time they ordered them.

Anomaly Zero The medical problems most people have can be traced to changes in a single cell.


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as reported in a review published in the Journal for American Veterinary Medical Association in 2012.


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Nano-Medics The medical problems most people have can be traced to a single cell or a small group of them.


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came from a study published in 1966 by Harold Kahn, an epidemiologist at the National institutes of health.

According to psychopharmacologist Paul Newhouse, director of the Center for Cognitive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of medicine in Nashville, Nicotinic receptors in the brain appear to work by regulating other receptor systems.


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His column Bad Medicine appears regularly on Livescience e


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#25 Fun Facts<p>Ever wonder what color eyes a scallop has or how deep the ocean really is?


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and in fact a 2006 analysis in the journal Medical Hypothesis suggests that such a deficiency may even be the cause of most major depression and mental health problems.

There is a strong correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and Vitamin d deficiency a 2012 study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found.


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which are a common cause of UTIS from adhering to the urinary tract according to a 2001 in the journal Urology as well as a 2000 study in the journal Nutrition.

implicated in peptic ulcers both in the stomach and the small intestine according to a 2000 study in the journal Medical Microbiology and Immunology.


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For example a 2012 study in The british Journal of Sports Medicine found that the more physically fit you are the less likely you are to suffer from colds in the winter months.


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A 2007 study in the Journal of Medicinal Food suggested that eating pumpkin may help control glucose levels

A 1996 study in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention found that a high consumption of these veggies was associated with a decreased risk of cancer.


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They are unequivocally harmful to health says Walter Willett professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard s School of Public health.

which may be harmful especially for people with medical conditions like high blood pressure. Instead: Drink water ideally from the tap (Eau du Potomac as it's known locally here in D c.).Water is the best drink for hydrating your body;


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The study was published in The british Medical Journal in June.<<br/><br/>The amount of omega-3 needed to achieve this reduced risk is equivalent to one or two servings weekly of oily fish such as salmon herring or sardines.</


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and a professor of nutrition and medicine at the University of Vermont said in a statement about the Sodium Swap Challenge.


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The amount that one egg a day raises cholesterol in the blood is extremely small says Walter Willett professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard's School of Public health.

Other epidemiological studies have not verified a connection between potatoes and weight gain or any diseases and no clinical studies have shown a connection..


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Driven in part by the demand for animal parts in traditional medicine cures in parts of Asia poaching

compounds derived from these plants have been used to create many medicines including the antimalarial drug quinine originally found in the Amazon's cinchona tree.


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It's a broad field using tools from biology medicine psychology sociology and other fields.

The venom deadly on its own is the main ingredient in snakebite antidotes and a wide range of medicines.

The study of feces has led also to advances in human medicine. For example poop transplants can be an effective means of treating intractable gut infections by reestablishing a healthy bacterial equilibrium.

Laughter therapist Laughter is the best medicine or at least the best therapy. Laughter has been found to reduce stress


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</p><p>To stay hydrated the Institute of Medicine suggests that women drink about nine cups (a cup is 8 ounces) of water a day including water itself


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But in the 1920s medical researchers were able to identify a hormone human chorionic gonadotropin or hcg that's found only in pregnant women marking the first time a single compound was discovered that could indicate pregnancy status. To determine the presence of hcg a sample of the woman's urine was injected into an immature female mouse frog or rabbit.

The 1970s When the sexual revolution arrived medical science was ready: In 1972 scientists reported for the first time a radioimmunoassay pregnancy test that could distinguish between hcg and luteinizing hormone in a woman's urine.


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and hemorrhoids are a common condition said Dr. Jesse Moore an assistant professor of surgery at University of Vermont College of Medicine and attending surgeon at Fletcher Allen Health care in Burlington VT.

In fact one in three American adults have reported going online to try to figure out what medical condition they

However some patients need surgery he said. Dr. Jeffrey S. Aronoff a colorectal surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New york said he suspects people may be increasing searching for hemorrhoid information

It's important that people be aware where they educate themselves about medical issues because some health websites have inaccurate information Aronoff said.


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000-Year-Old Eye Medicine Ancient gray disks loaded with zinc and beeswax found aboard a shipwreck more than 2000 years old may have been used as medicine for the eyes researchers say.

These new findings shed light on the development of medicine over the centuries scientists added. Scientists analyzed six flat gray tablets approximately 1. 6 inches (4 centimeters) in diameter and 0. 4 inches (1 cm) thick that were found in a round tin box

aboard the so-called Relitto del Pozzino shipwreck which was discovered about 60 feet (18 meters) underwater in 1974 on the seabed of the Baratti Gulf off the coast of Tuscany.

The cargo also included medical equipment such as an iron probe and a bronze vessel that may have been used for bloodletting

or for applying hot air to soothe aches. These findings suggest a physician was traveling by sea with his professional equipment the researchers said.

To learn more about these potentially medicinal tablets researchers investigated the chemical mineralogical and botanical composition of fragments of a broken tablet.

In archaeology the discovery of ancient medicines is very rare as is knowledge of their chemical composition the researchers wrote.

since ancient times to serve as medicines with the ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder writing that they could help treat the eyes and skin.

and medicines and pine resin may have kept the oil from going rancid and fought microbes due to its antiseptic properties.

However about 60 percent of this pollen came from plants that are pollinated by insects such as bees suggesting they may inadvertently have hitched along in a bee product such as beeswax instead of getting intentionally added to the medicine.

This study provided valuable information on ancient medical and pharmaceutical practices and on the development of pharmacology and medicine over the centuries the researchers said.

In addition given the current focus on natural compounds our data could lead to new investigations and research for therapeutic care.


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and Reconstructive Surgery found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls almost 9 percent were from Rottweilers

A 15-year study published in 2009 in the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology revealed that pit bulls Rottweilers

And a 2011 study from the Annals of Surgery revealed that attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates higher hospital charges


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and takes in more arsenic it has higher levels than other foods said Suzanne C. Fitzpatrick the senior adviser for toxicology in FDA's Center for Food safety and Applied Nutrition.

But it's thought that 10 grams of arsenic over a lifetime would increase the risk of diseases such as cancer Christopher States a toxicologist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky told Livescience in a 2011 interview.


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Leading medical and public health organizations including the American Medical Association the American Academy of Pediatrics

and preserve antibiotics for their original purpose to be used as lifesaving medicine. Lehner's most recent Op-Ed was Sell-By Labels Send Edible U s. Food to the Dump.


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Dr. Andrew Freeman a cardiologist at the National Jewish Health Center  hospital in Denver who was involved not in the study suspects that people who had diets rich in anthocyanins also tended to live a more healthy lifestyle overall


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References to the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and public health for example narrows down a broad recognition that countries can act to protect public health without breaking trade commitments to one dealing only with access to medicines.

Patenting a medicine is one way for a pharmaceutical company to prevent others from copying their drug.

This both delays the introduction of cheaper generic drugs onto the market and has implications for the ability to use the data to support medical research and treatment.


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Unfortunately however pandas must increasingly compete for their needed bamboo with people who use this plant as food for livestock an ingredient for medicines and raw material for musical instruments.


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Three samples were contaminated with Salmonella according to the study published today (Oct 21) in the journal Pediatrics.

but have difficulty making enough should work with their pediatrician and consider using lactation support services Keim said.


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Among other findings of the study the breast milk of overweight mothers and mothers who had planned caesareans contained a lower diversity of bacteria species compared with that of other moms.

Mothers who had unplanned caesareans showed breast milk composition that was very similar to that of mothers who had a vaginal birth the researchers noted.


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but not cancer cells less susceptible to damage from radiation said study co-author Dr. Eliot Rosen a radiation oncologist at Georgetown University in Washington D c. Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods Deadly effects


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and had good medical care and were working for the good of society Redding said. It was believed that


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The study and editorial will be published Feb 13. in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Pass it on:


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which will be published in a future issue of the Journal of Pediatrics. Researchers at the University of Liverpool in England looked at 181 children between ages 8 and 11.


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Just as so-called functional foods may keep your heart healthy for instance others may promote oral health according to Christine D. Wu a pediatric dentistry researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Research published in the journal General Dentistry earlier this year reported that 12-to 15-year-olds who ate cheddar cheese had lower acid levels in their mouths than thoseâ who ate sugar-free yogurt


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The slaughter of elephants for ivory the killing of rhinos for their horns and the culling of tigers for their bones (as medicine)


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which burn energy rather than store it as typical white fat cells do said Takeshi Yoneshiro a researcher at Hokkaido University Graduate school of Medicine in Japan.

or no brown fat cells said Dr. Clifford Rosen a professor of medicine at Tufts University who wasn't involved in the study.

Cold burns fat Brown fat cells are currently a subject of intense research as a target for anti-obesity drugs said Dr. Soren Snitker a medical researcher at the University of Maryland School of medicine


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This bouncing baby boy made his Internet debut as the star of the first-ever live-tweeted Cesarean section on Feb 20.

Though live webcasts and other social media surrounding surgery are not new Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston elevated the art form by choosing a feel-good procedure the birth of a baby to broadcast.

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29245-social-media-broadcasts-live-surgery. html target=blank>Social Media Broadcasts Live Surgery to the Masses


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<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27618-why-psychopathic-traits-exist. html target=blank>Why It Pays to Be A bit of a Psychopath</a p><p></p><p>In a dramatic medical breakthrough a baby

</p><p>Though medical experts caution that this single case does not represent a cure for all cases of HIV infection the child s aggressive antiretroviral treatment may become a new standard of care for children born to HIV


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Further research is needed to verify this epidemiological data and study the potential association between increased intake of avocados and other dietary components.


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A 2012 study by a team from Taiwan and the U s. published in the Archives of Internal medicine found that consuming cranberries did seem to prevent urinary tract infections in certain populations


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In warm weather blooms of blue-green algae are not uncommon in farm ponds in temperate regions particularly ponds enriched with fertilizer according to a classic toxicology reference book Casarett and Doull's Toxicology:


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and 11 percent less likely to die from cancer according to study published in the Nov 21 issue of the New england Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum a preventive cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New york who was involved not in the study said the findings reaffirm the known benefits of nuts.


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but also has negative consequences for medicinal research and local populations who rely on the animals and plants in the forests for hunting and medicine.

Carbon Emissions: Healthy forests help absorb greenhouse gasses and carbon emissions that are caused by human civilization


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Those with ongoing diarrhea should seek medical attention if they experience: Â Diagnosis & Tests Diagnosing diarrhea itself is simple


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and garden activities might be as important as recommending regular exercise for older adults the researchers write in the Oct 28 issue of The british Journal of Sports Medicine.


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Fast-food restaurants are serving healthier options although only marginally so according to a study published last week in the American Journal of Preventive medicine.

Analyses by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has found that most fast-food salads are not any more healthful than a greasy burger.

His column Bad Medicine appears regularly on Livescience i


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#Do'Smarter'Dogs Really Suffer More than'Dumber'Mice?(Op-Ed) Marc Bekoff emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder is one of the pioneering cognitive ethologists in the United states a Guggenheim Fellow and cofounder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical

Consequently the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness.

and birds and many other creatures including octopuses also possess these neurological substrates. And we need to keep the door open to the possibility that other vertebrates


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The results were published in January in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. Because the researchers measured each person s antioxidant and optimism levels only once rather than following them over time it remains unclear

The current study adds a valuable piece of information to this larger picture about how optimists go about getting healthier said Dr. Hilary Tindle a doctor of internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.


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Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2010 in the journal Pediatrics that an outbreak of salmonella in 79 people between 2006 and 2008 was caused by contaminated dry pet food.


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Lots of Animals Self-Medicate The use of medicine can no longer be considered a solely human trait

And this list runs the gamut with the usual suspects primates chewing on medicinal herbs as well as some more surprising drug-takers such as fruit flies ants

Helping humans Animal medicine can be useful to humans in a variety of ways. For instance bees collect plant resins with antifungal and antimicrobial properties

These medicines could also possibly be used to fight infection in humans or other animals. One chemical in bee resin has been shown to have inhibitory effects against HIV-1 de Roode said.

Another plant eaten as a medicine by primates is now being used as an antiemetic (to treat nausea

when artificial medicines are made available to them to eat when necessary. A polymer called polyethylene glycol helps sheep handle a diet high in tannins

and lambs can learn to eat this medicine from observing their parents doing it Villalba said.


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Dr. Michael Okun national medical director for the National Parkinson Foundation who was involved not in the study called the findings interesting


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More importantly a report by Ying Rong of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and her colleagues published in The british Journal of Medicine in January reviewed 17 different egg studies.

Most epidemiological research the kind of research that studies large populations over time and analyzes their diets

The amount that one egg a day raises cholesterol in the blood is extremely small so small in fact that the increase in risk in heart disease related to this change in serum cholesterol could never be detected in any kind of study said Walter Willett professor of epidemiology and nutrition


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and even gall bladders for use in certain Asian medical traditions. Brilliantly colored birds like golden pheasants and temminck's tragopans posed for pictures too as did haired yellow-throated martens golden takins and wild boars.


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and other microbes in medical tubing could greatly reduce a patient's risk of infection.


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The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science encourages adults to consume of at least 4700 milligrams of potassium every day.


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and the males'horns used in traditional medicines was the main driver. Numbers are now back up to 160000 in five separate


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In Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest botanist Brent Ewers of the University of Wyoming examined


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and to make simple herbal medicines. George became fascinated by plants and was soon experimenting with natural pesticides fungicides and soil conditioners.

He experimented with medicines made from peanuts which included antiseptics laxatives and a treatment for goiter.


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Extreme cases of GERD may need surgery to increase the pressure at the opening of the stomach.


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along with the availability of medical care (the skeletons of some workers show healed bones) would have been an additional lure for ancient Egyptians to work on the pyramids.


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and the silk protein is isolated to make a lightweight ultra-strong silk with a wide range of industrial and medical uses.

The World health organization the American Medical Association the U s. National Academy of Sciences The british Royal Society and every other respected organization that has examined the evidence has come to the same conclusion:


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if you need a gluten-free diet 1. Have a complete check-up with your family physician. 2. Consult with appropriate specialists such as an allergist for wheat allergy and a gastroenterologist for celiac or another gastrointestinal disease.

and defined these diseases in the journal BMC Medicine in 2012. Wheat allergy is an adverse immunologic reaction to wheat proteins a classic food allergy affecting the skin gastrointestinal tract or respiratory tract.


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The company allegedly had a hand in ghostwriting some 11 articles published in reputable scientific journals such as Inhalation Toxicology The Journal of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene Annals of Occupational Hygiene

While scientific and medical journals periodically wring their hands about the problem and the U s. Senate has investigated even the issue the response to date has failed clearly the public and the scientific enterprise.


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The study was published today (Oct 11) in the journal BMC Medicine. Follow Rachael Rettner@Rachaelrettner. Follow Livescience@livescience Facebook & Google+.


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and typically participate in other medical studies at the same time all while lying in bed NASA researchers told the Houston Chronicle in September.

Coburn's report cites the Houston Chronicle article but leaves out any information regarding the rigors of the experiment or the potential benefits to medicine On earth.


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Industrialization improved sanitation and medical care caused death rates to decline while birth rates continued to climb in most parts of the world.


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whether applying medical grade honey to wound sites in patients undergoing dialysis showed advantages over standard antibiotic use.

but for medicines the bar is set higher. There are many different ways that new medicines are approved for public use.

Drugs made by pharmaceutical companies for instance go through many years of expensive highly-controlled clinical trials comparing the effects of the new drug against a placebo control.

But alternative or oenatural medicines can be put straight to market provided they don t do any harm

or a daily application of medical grade honey to the site of catheter insertion. The study found no significant differences in infection rates


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