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Category: 5. Health
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Researchers develop innovative model to study sense of smell
Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of nerve tissue in the nose, researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) and colleagues have discovered that one…
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Visa Pause Could Leave U.S. With Fewer New Doctors Amid Shortage
About a quarter of doctors currently in practice were educated in foreign medical schools and the United States faces a growing physician shortage.
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Newly-minted M.D.s are among the thousands of students, trainees, teachers and exchange…
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Eating an array of smaller fish could be nutrient-dense solution to overfishing
To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish.
The right combination of certain…
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Molecular link between air pollution and pregnancy risks
A new study by Emory University researchers, published Thursday in Environmental Science & Technology, found that exposure to the tiny particles in air pollution during pregnancy can disrupt maternal metabolisms, altering key biological pathways….
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Pancreatic cancer spreads to liver or lung thanks to this protein
A protein called PCSK9 determines how pancreatic cancer cells metastasize to different parts of the body.
Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells thrive in the lungs or liver, environments that are as distinct…
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Gene Therapy For Inherited Disease In The Unborn Child
Until recently, even the most advanced gene therapies could only be given after a child was … More
In the first part of this series, we explored how early genetic…
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Access To Abortion Pill Mifepristone Could Be Threatened, Again
In this photo illustration, packages of mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning … More
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Fear, Stress, and Immune System Linked
A new study published in Nature has shown that fear and the immune system are linked in previously unknown ways, with the immune system potentially influencing stress and fear behaviors.
The study used a…
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Epilepsy is more common in patients with frontotemporal dementia than expected
According to a recent study, in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), epileptic seizures are significantly more common than previously known. The discovery deepens understanding of the symptoms of this memory disorder and emphasises the…
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