Health & Medicine
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- Agriculture
AAAS: Stress Can Make Plants More Nutritious
People who aren't veggie lovers might want to seek out types of produce that deliver an especially big nutrient bang for the gram.
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Sequencing virus genome to cure the common cold
The genomes of all known common cold viruses have been sequenced, providing new information on how the different strains are related, how they replicate and how to predict their virulence.
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Bigger rewards boost tobacco quit rate
Smokers who are offered several hundred dollars are three times as likely to quit as those offered no reward.
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A better test for prostate cancer
Elevated urine concentrations of a compound called sarcosine in men with prostate cancer may signal an aggressive malignancy.
- Health & Medicine
Postpartum psychosis most likely in month after childbirth
Mothers who develop postpartum psychosis are at greatest risk during the first month after childbirth, and even mothers with no previous history of mental illness could develop the condition
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Electronic Records: A Way to Stretch Nurses
Cost savings are perhaps not even the primary benefit of the White House proposal for national electronic medical recordkeeping.
- Life
Molecular link between vitamin D deficiency and MS
Scientists have discovered a molecular link that may help explain why Vitamin D deficiency is associated with multiple sclerosis.
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Cancer fighting green tea may have a dark side
This herbal remedy can short-circuit one of the few useful therapies for largely incurable blood cancers.
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How the body rubs out West Nile virus
Tests in mice show how the immune system tracks down cells infected with West Nile virus, findings that might explain why some old people fare worst from the virus.
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Melamine-tainted infant formula linked to kidney stones
Three new studies link the melamine tainting of infant formula in China with a greatly elevated risk that babies will develop potentially dangerous, symptom-free kidney stones.
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Needles can stick it to pain
Acupuncture lessens pain, but so do needles randomly stuck in the skin, a new analysis shows.
