Health & Medicine
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Unseen Risk: Lifestyle, physical problems may underlie psoriasis link to early mortality
Severe psoriasis knocks as many years off a person's expected life span as high blood pressure.
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It’s Spud Time
The United Nations wants more people to appreciate the potato's potential to fight world hunger.
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Immune cells to fight leukemia
A cancer vaccine against leukemia helps some patients avoid a relapse for months or years, but only if given early in the course of the disease or when a patient is in remission.
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In search of safer marrow transplants
A synthetic antibody called ACK2 that targets certain bone marrow cells may make marrow transplants a possibility for people with severe autoimmune disease.
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Novel fused protein quells inflammation
A new compound called GIFT-15, made from the fusion of two proteins, stops inflammation in mice.
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Vitamin D: Blacks need much more
To achieve healthy concentrations of vitamin D, many African-Americans may need hefty daily supplementation.
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Big kids at risk for heart disease
Overweight children grow up to have an elevated risk for blocked coronary arteries as adults, a long-term Danish study finds.
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The Long Road to Beta Cells
In their quest to cure type 1 diabetes, scientists are finding that turning stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells is a lot harder than it first appeared.
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No Peanuts for Your Peanut
Youngsters are developing peanut allergies earlier because of exposures in babyhood.
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Angiogenesis Factors: Tracking down the suspects in blood vessel growth near tumors
Tumors enlist certain bone marrow cells in efforts to grow new blood vessels for self-nourishment.
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Sickle Save: Skin cells fix anemia in mice
Using a new technique to turn skin cells into stem cells, scientists have corrected sickle cell anemia in mice.
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Putting tumors on pause
Keeping benign breast tumors from progressing into a malignant cancer can be achieved in mice by reducing a signaling protein.
