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Light wine intake is associated with longer life expectancy in men

...g habits, dietary habits, body mass index, smoking habits and the prevalence of heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer. The statistics on alcohol consumption were adjusted to account for other risk factors. The researchers found that long-term, light alcohol intake of less than or equal to 20 grams pe...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...back to individual doctors about their prescribing habits can improve adherence to a narrow-spectrum antibiotic prescribing policy, thereby reducing CD cases. "National guidelines recommend narrow-spectrum antibiotic policies and suggest a variety of methods to ensure these are implemented, but feedback...

Microfluidic chip helps solve cellular mating puzzle

...lved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells. The findings, described in the Feb. 18 Advance Online Publication of the journal Nature, shed new light on the way cells send and receive signals from one another and from the environment through a process called signal transductio...

Twenty of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction

...rotected areas (MPAs), and more sustainable eating habits for consumers of these fishes,?said Sadovy, who organized the workshop. The workshop is part of a worldwide study of marine life called the Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA) by IUCN, Conservation International and numerous other partners tha...

Bats prey on nocturnally migrating songbirds

...or proving the case. But how to study the foraging habits of an elusive predator that chases its favourite p... in total darkness? To elucidate the mysterious habits of giant noctule bats, an ambitious investigation led by young scientist Ana Popa-Lisseanu, under Pr...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

...source of inadvertent exposure) are very important habits which help to control the presence of pesticides in our organisms. ...

Prenatal Stress Keeps Infants, Toddlers up at Night, Study Says

...en were then asked to report on their childs sleep habits at 6, 18 and 30 months, detailing how long the child slept (a consolidated daytime and nighttime total), how often the child awoke, and if he or she exhibited any of seven common forms of sleep problems, such as having nightmares, refusing to go to b...

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