Well: Mind: Depression and Stroke Risk

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:21:00 +0000

Being depressed is known to increase the risk for stroke. Now a new study suggests that the association is even stronger in younger women.

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Scientists Make Breast Cancer Advance That Turns Previous Thinking On Its Head

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA)Â�have made an advance in breast cancer research which shows how some enzymes released by cancerous cells could have a protective function. New research published today in the Journal of Biological Chemistry reveals that an enzyme called MMP-8 (matrix metalloproteinase-8) could be acting as a locator to the immune system, which then becomes activated to attack tumours. It was originally thought that the production of MMPs by breast cancer cells worked to promote cancer growth…

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Scientists Develop Worm EEG To Test The Effects Of Drugs

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a device which records the brain activity of worms to help test the effects of drugs. NeuroChip is a microfluidic electrophysiological device, which can trap the microscopic worm Caenorhadbitis elegans and record the activity of discrete neural circuits in its ‘brain’ – a worm equivalent of the EEG. C. elegans have been enormously important in providing insight into fundamental signalling processes in the nervous system and this device opens the way for a new analysis…

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Experts: 'Minor errors' in stem cell study

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:22:00 +0000

Researchers managed to create embryonic stem cells through cloning, a breakthrough in the field that was announced May 15 in the journal Cell. That study is now being called into question — but not necessarily on scientific grounds.

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Okla. nurses save mom in labor

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:12:00 +0000

Four nurses stayed with a mother in labor while a tornado ripped the hospital walls off. CNN’s Brian Todd reports.

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What the human heart can do

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:16:00 +0000

Dr. Roberto Bolli is using patients’ stem cells to repair damage to the heart.

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Binge eater loses 70 pounds

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:09:00 +0000

The letter Jacki Monaco wrote was fraught with emotion. “Dear food,” it began. “You have been my dearest friend and my most painful enemy.”

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Ask Well: White-Coat Hypertension

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000

A reader asks whether white-coat hypertension — the tendency to develop high blood pressure at the sight of a doctor’s garb — is common and dangerous.

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'STFU Parents' Targets Social Media Overshare

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:45:00 +0000

In her new book, Blair Koenig teases parents who go overboard on social media networks.

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Sometimes, you just have to lose control

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:36:00 +0000

On a training trip to Florida, Fit Nation member Tabitha McMahon realized that she feared giving up control.

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