(Penn State) Going green may be heart healthy if the green you choose is pistachio nuts, according to researchers at Penn State who conducted the first study to investigate the way pistachios lower cholesterol.
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(American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) A new study from researchers in Italy reports that endoscopy may not be necessary in children who show no symptoms after a caustic ingestion. The results demonstrated that the incidence of severe abnormalities of the esophagus in children without an
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Doctors are given just three hours to administer the clot-busting drug alteplase to help stroke patients, but a study released on Wednesday shows the drug still does some good as long as 4-1/2 hours later.
(World Journal of Gastroenterology) Hepatic fibrosis is associated with a number of morphological and biochemical changes leading to structural and metabolic abnormalities in the liver. Qianggan-Rongxian decoction is a traditional Chinese medicine. A team from China investigated the protective effe
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(Oregon Health & Science University) New study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds blacks who receive colon cancer screening are more likely to have serious polyps, compared to whites, and are therefore likely to benefit from more intensive screening. Black men and wo
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On Wednesday, in an effort to help voters understand the differences, the New England Journal of Medicine is offering a critique of the health plans of the presidential candidates.
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(University of Manchester) University of Manchester scientists are to investigate the biological causes of the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's, thanks to a prestigious £1.9 million senior fellowship award from the Medical Research Council.
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(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a new class of disposable, microplate-based optical biosensors capable of detecting protein-DNA interactions. Based on the properties of photonic crystals, the biosensors are suitable for the rapid
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