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Laxative-free colon screening procedure may be as accurate as standard colonoscopy in detecting high-risk polyps

Click Here to Read More … A CT-scan-based form of virtual colonoscopy that does not require laxative preparation appears to be as effective as standard colonoscopy in identifying the intestinal polyps most likely to become cancerous.
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Raising HDL not a sure route to countering heart disease

Click Here to Read More … A new paper published online in The Lancet challenges the assumption that raising a person’s HDL — the so-called “good cholesterol” — will necessarily lower the risk of a heart attack.
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Women Seen As Objects, Not People In Sexualized Images

Click Here to Read More … Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women’s sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and women see images of sexy women’s bodies as objects, while they see sexy-looking men as people…
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People with paralysis control robotic arms using brain-computer interface

Click Here to Read More … A new study in Nature reports that two people with tetraplegia were able to reach for and grasp objects in three-dimensional space using robotic arms that they controlled directly with brain activity.
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Women At Risk Of Post Natal Depression May Be Identified By Blood Test

Click Here to Read More … Researchers at Warwick Medical School have discovered a way of identifying which women are most at risk of postnatal depression (PND) by checking for specific genetic variants. The findings could lead to the development of a simple, accurate blood test which checks for the likelihood of developing the condition…
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Lose Weight, Lose a Risk

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Mayo Clinic Researchers Discover Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Detection, Recurrence

Click Here to Read More … Alterations to the “on-off” switches of genes occur early in the development of prostate cancer and could be used as biomarkers to detect the disease months or even years earlier than current approaches, a Mayo Clinic study has found.
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Toddler Threats

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Fertility For Older, Highly Educated Women Has Risen Since The 1990s, According To New Research

Click Here to Read More … An increasing number of highly educated women are opting for families, according to a national study co-authored by a University at Buffalo economist. Qingyan Shang, an assistant professor at UB, says the study uncovers what may be the reversal of a trend by highly educated women…
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All cancer cells are not created equal

Click Here to Read More … A study from Massachusetts General Hospital researchers suggests that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow.
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