How does coconut oil affect health?
How does coconut oil affect health? Coconut oil, with its sweet smell of the tropics and its purported claims to cure what ails you, is everywhere. People are using it in their shampoos, skin creams,...
Neurological issues may drive common voice disorders
Neurological issues may drive common voice disorders : Hyperfunctional voice disorders (HVDs) are hard to describe but easy to hear. People with the condition produce a grab-bag of forms of unusual voice behaviors that make...
Trial of Experimental Chikungunya Vaccine Begins
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Less Chemotherapy May Be Best Choice for Some Patients with Colon Cancer
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Kids’ heart health focus of new research
Kids’ heart health focus of new research : Experts say that helping children maintain ideal cardiovascular health is more effective than taking a wait-and-see approach and treating disease in adulthood. The aim of the AHA’s...
Alkaline Diets and Kidney Disease
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How diet may affect age-related macular degeneration
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Antibodies from Ebola survivor could lead to treatments and vaccines
Antibodies from Ebola survivor could lead to treatments and vaccines : The 2013-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa highlighted the need for an effective treatment or vaccine. Researchers have been making progress on several fronts,...
Making artificial ovaries
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Organizations fund more than $550,000 in heart defect research
Organizations fund more than $550,000 in heart defect research : Five research programs are receiving a total of $561,798 to fund congenital heart defect research, the American Heart Association and The Children’s Heart Foundation announced...
Flushing Kidney Stones
Flushing Kidney Stones : Have you ever heard that passing a kidney stone is more painful than giving birth? Each year, more than 1 million people in the U.S. rush to the emergency room with...
Just one alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, exercise lowers risk
Just one alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, exercise lowers risk : "It can be confusing with single studies when the findings get swept back and forth," said Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD, a...
Why our brain cells may prevent us burning fat when we’re dieting
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Toward an HIV Cure: Team Develops Test to Detect Hidden HIV Virus
Toward an HIV Cure: Team Develops Test to Detect Hidden HIV Virus : The quest to develop a cure for HIV has long been plagued by a seemingly simple question: How do doctors determine if...
Answering your questions about cancer, inflammation, and immunity
Questions about cancer, inflammation, and immunity : Last week, Cell Press hosted a webinar on cancer, inflammation, and immunity, which is now on demand. In it, expert scientists Douglas Fearon and Mikala Egeblad, both from...
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