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Children's Healthy Diets Lead to Healthier IQ
newswise.com — “Children fed healthy diets in early age may have a slightly higher IQ, while those on heavier junk food diets may have a slightly reduced IQ, according to new research from the University of Adelaide.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Top Research Institutions Join Mayo Clinic in Asking Congress to Preserve NIH Funding
newswise.com — “Mayo Clinic and 18 other leading medical research institutions nationwide are urging congressional leaders to maintain current funding levels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).” View full resource at newswise.com
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Research Suggests New Cause to Blame for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
newswise.com — “UNC scientists have discovered that a commonly held assumption is wrong and that a separate role of the SMN gene – still not completely elucidated -- is likely responsible for the disease’s manifestations.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Discovery Paves Way for Improved Pain-Killers
newswise.com — “An international team of researchers involving the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado has made a major discovery that could lead to more effective treatment of severe pain using morphine.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Meditation Fights Cancer and Promotes Longevity
newswise.com — “Dr. Eliaz’s retreat will offer a rare, in-depth opportunity to learn and experience his profound techniques for deepening the mind-body connection and facilitating long-lasting regeneration and healing.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Georgia Tech Hosts STAY WITH IT™ Launch with White House and Intel
newswise.com — “The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected to host the launch of the STAY WITH IT™ campaign as part of the national Day of Engineering on March 14 in collaboration with the White House, Intel, Facebook and other university partners.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Fly Research Gives Insight Into Human Stem Cell Development
newswise.com — “Stem cells provide a recurring topic among the scientific presentations at the Genetics Society of America’s 53rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 7-11 in Chicago. Specifically, researchers are trying to determine how, within organs, cells specialize while stem cells maintain tissues and enable them to repair damage and respond to stress or aging.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Stroke-Preventing Technology Demonstrated in JoVE
newswise.com — “In the United States alone, approximately 6 million people suffer from an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation (AF), and since the incidence increases with age, it is predicted that 15.9 million Americans will be affected by 2050. The most devastating side effect of AF is stroke, but a new device from Boston Scientific may prevent them from occurring.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Natural Enzyme Provides Potential New Approach for Treating Graft-vs-Host-Disease
newswise.com — “A natural enzyme derived from human blood plasma showed potential in significantly reducing the effects of graft-vs.-host disease, a common and deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplants.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Chief Scientific Officer Named First Richard L. Menschel Research Chair at Hospital for Special Surgery
newswise.com — “Steven R. Goldring, M.D., chief scientific officer, has been named the first Richard L. Menschel Research Chair at Hospital for Special Surgery. A gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor will permanently endow the position of the Hospital’s chief scientific officer.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Future Obesity May be Predicted at 3.5 Years of Age
newswise.com — “Researchers can predict which children are most likely to become obese by examining their mothers' behaviour around their birth, according to a recent University of Montreal study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.” View full resource at newswise.com
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NCDEU Meeting Charts the Course of Mental Health Treatments
newswise.com — “More than 1,000 of the world’s leading neuroscientists gathered this week at the 51st Annual NCDEU Meeting to discuss the future of mental health treatments.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Scientists Target Aggressive Prostate Cancer
newswise.com — “Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a potential target to treat an aggressive type of prostate cancer. The target, a gene called SPINK1, could be to prostate cancer what HER2 has become for breast cancer.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Loyola Research Article Among Top 10 Cited in Gerontology Journal
newswise.com — “A review article about the immune system and aging, written by Loyola University Health System researcher Elizabeth J. Kovacs, PhD, and colleagues, has been named one of the Top 10 most-cited articles in the journal Experimental Gerontology for the period 2008-2010.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Team of Researchers Find Evidence of Fire in Antarctic Ice
newswise.com — “A team of scientists studying Antarctic ice cores have found surprising evidence of a fluctuating pattern of carbon monoxide concentrations in the Earth--™s atmosphere caused by biomass burning in the Southern Hemisphere over the past 650 years.” View full resource at newswise.com
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