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 Cancer inside dense breasts can be spotted with the help of a radioactive tracer. This might be the most important test against mammograms, as doctors stated on Wednesday. This new test will also reveal more tumors and will give fewer false alarms, as it is built to be more certain.The molecular breast imaging will be made with the help...
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 Even if researchers have recently stated that the vaccine against chickenpox could diminish its occurrence in children with almost 90%, some doctors and health officials fear that many parents don’t take the disease seriously enough as to get their children vaccinated.A study released in the journal of Pediatrics on Tuesday and made by...
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 A new study made by a research team at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has shown that asthma is strongly connected to child abuse and the children abused by their parents are the ones at greater risk to develop the respiratory problem.1,200 children were asked questions by the researcher’s team. They were asked about their...
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 Researchers showed on Monday that children who are born with fathers older than 30 are at greater risk to develop bipolar disorder. This disorder is known as maniac depression. The risk increases when the father is even older. For example, when the father is already 55 years old the risk increases up to 37%.Emma Frans, an epidemiologist...
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 An Italian study showed that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids found in fish oil could reduce the number of deaths caused by heart failure. Still, the cholesterol-lowering statin, which the researchers used to make a comparison, showed no improvement in a parallel heart failure trial.Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of...
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 Nearly 700 elderly people, half of whom had a flu vaccine and half of whom had not, were the subject of a new study. The study’s results will appear in the first issue for September of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a publication of the American Thoracic Society.The researchers stated that the flu vaccine...
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 People have built cotton swabs to get rid of the earwax. Does this mean it’s really something grouse or just uncomfortable? Many people use to remove the wax, but instead, it has been proven that it really does something for the organism as long as it’s produced. So stop playing with those cotton swabs and let’s see what the scientists...
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 Alzheimer’s is a terminal and degenerative disease for which there is known no cure. In its common form, it affects people over 65 years old. Still, an early-onset form exists. Each individual experiences the symptoms of Alzheimer’s in unique ways. Generally, the symptoms are those reported when memory loss becomes apparent.The duration...
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No radioactivity was released outside the International Atomic Energy Agency's laboratory after a small plutonium container burst in early August, the IAEA reported Friday, citing independent analysis.
On August 3, less than one gram of plutonium spilled in the Agency's laboratory in Seibersdorf, around 35 kilometres south-east of...
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 Some Swedish researchers have stated that previous studies about the loss of mental abilities were wrong. The deterioration of our intelligence and our mind capacity starts earlier than we thought before. Some of our most important skills start to deteriorate nearly 15 years before we die.The tests made to discover this consisted of...
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