More than 500,000 children and adolescents suffer a mild traumatic brain injury each year – and according to a new…
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Concussion symptoms can persist in children a year after injury
New Cancer Drug That Starves Tumors of Blood Supply to Be Tested
A new drug that attacks a variety of cancers by starving the tumors’ blood supplies will be tested on humans…
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Facts about trans fats
How are they formed? And what’s so bad about them? Get the stats on the new fat on the block.…
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The Life Span of Food
They lurk in the unknown depths of your fridge, waiting to unleash their putrid attacks upon innocent snackers. They’re the…
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Embryo survival gene may fight range of diseases
A gene that keeps embryos alive appears to control the immune system and determine how it fights chronic diseases like…
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Proton therapy: Radiation without the side effects?
For years, 60-year-old Frank Mackinson had been experiencing strange symptoms that would come and go. Two years ago, as he…
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FDA: Drugs Approved in U.S. Before Europe
Americans in the past year got access to 24 new medicines before they became available anywhere else, U.S. drug regulators…
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Pregnancy Weight Loss Can Be Safe for Obese Women
According to a new study that seems to buck traditional medical logic, obese women may actually be able to lose…
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Hollywood loves to bring us worst-case scenarios: catastrophic twisters, Earth-destroying asteroids or, in the case of the upcoming film “Contagion,”…
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Feeling Pain? Swearing Can Help, Study Says
If you’re in pain and you don’t have any aspirin or ibuprofen close by – don’t worry. According to researchers…
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