New nerve cells have been shown to form in rats given a cannabinoid chemical, and this cell growth might even lower depression.
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New nerve cells have been shown to form in rats given a cannabinoid chemical, and this cell growth might even lower depression.
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Fewer than half of cigarette smokers quit after experiencing a first cardiac event, according to a survey of Europeans. One in five continue to light up despite personal advice from their doctor to stop smoking.
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Millions of Americans find themselves devoting enormous amounts of time and energy to sorting out their medical bills.
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A protein responsible for fleas’ astonishing jumping power could be harnessed to repair damaged arteries.
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Paying doctors to reach clinical targets, a hot trend in the push to improve health care quality, may not lead to hoped-for improvements in care.
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Couch potatoes may quickly accumulate a type of deep abdominal fat that contributes to diabetes and other metabolic problems — but regular exercise can prevent or even reverse the process, according to researchers.
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What if eating chocolate, healthy margarine like spreads, low-fat cheese, granola bars and more could help you lower your blood cholesterol levels? A growing number of popular foods include stanols and sterols, natural substances that have been proven to help lower blood cholesterol levels by as much as 15 percent.
Enjoying a fish meal at least once a week could take three years off
the age of an elderly person’s brain – keeping it sharper and quicker.
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A single course of hepatitis A and B vaccine is enough to protect most healthy travelers from contracting these infections, and current evidence suggests this protection is lifelong, a team of travel medicine experts concludes.
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For many years, psychiatrists have argued over whether or not early intervention after a schizophrenia patient’s first episode of psychosis could improve the patient’s long-term outcome. A new study concludes that early intervention can improve outcome.
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This flu season there’s additional reason to make your little ones wash their hands and keep their noses off their sleeves. A new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests that 3- and 4-year-olds drive flu epidemics.
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HIV, which attacks the body’s natural defences, also attacks the brain, three dimensional medical scans have shown.
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How much you exercise may be more important than how hard you exercise in terms of heart health, according to a study of sedentary overweight men and women. And, many will be happy to hear, exhaustive amounts of exercise are not needed for heart health.
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A protein that makes the sex glands of male mosquitoes glow could help reduce malaria infection rates, scientists say.
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It took a lot of digging to bring back to life the Spanish influenza virus of 1918. Some was done with invisible molecular primers in a PCR machine in Rockville. Some was done with pick and shovel in the frozen ground of Alaska.
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