Health & Medicine
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Vitamin D deficiency
Parkinson’s disease patients are more commonly lacking in vitamin D than Alzheimer’s patients or healthy people.
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Bad air for growing brains and minds
Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests.
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Body In Mind
Long thought the province of the abstract, cognition may actually evolve as physical experiences and actions ignite mental life.
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New hand, same brain map
An investigation of a man who received a successful hand transplant suggests that reorganization of sensory maps in the brain following amputation can be reversed in short order.
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Flu shot in pregnancy protects newborns
Mothers-to-be impart antibodies to offspring that pay dividends later
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Let’s Get Physical
The feds articulate how much exercise we should consider as healthy.
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Nobel Prize in medicine given for HIV, HPV discoveries
Three Europeans recognized for linking viruses to AIDS, cervical cancer.
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Smokers May Benefit from Red Wine
Smokers: Red wine may be the prescription for you.
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Don’t forget diet composition
Caloric restriction, an antiaging technique, fails to lower levels of IGF-1, a growth factor that, in high amounts, is linked to cancer in humans. But cutting protein along with calories does decrease IGF-1.
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On Following the Money
Judge medical writers on issues that matter most in a given story, not just on what's easiest to quantify.
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Pregnancy curiosity
Asian-Caucasian couples having children face slightly increased risks of pregnancy complications.
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You Choose: Vioxx vs Rofecoxib
Physicians weigh in on how reporters refer to certain medications.
