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Barriers to care include worries about family's reaction, study finds WEDNESDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Concern about their family's reaction to their depression is a major reason why many teens don't seek treatment, new research suggests. In the study, which included 368 teens ...Drug Combo Keeps Kidney Artery-Vein Grafts Viable
Aspirin plus anti-clotting therapy boosts dialysis patients' quality of life, study says WEDNESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of aspirin and the anti-clotting drug dipyridamole reduces blockages and extends the useful life of new artery-vein access grafts used for kidney...Stress Keeps Americans Tossing and Turning
Better Sleep Council and Council for Responsible Nutrition Issue Simple Steps to Sleep Better and Stress Less ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- As stress from economic anxiety mounts, the Better Sleep Council (BSC) and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have joined forces for ...Diabetes Keeps Rising Among U.S. Adults
13% of people over 20 now have the condition, while 30% are pre-diabetic, study finds WEDNESDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- The most recent analysis of data on diabetes in the United States finds that almost 13 percent of adults aged 20 and older have the condition, 40 percent of who...Keep Mosquitoes and More Out of Your Yard with Garlic From Garlic Research Labs, Inc.
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Scientists at the Universities of Bath and Leeds have discovered a chemical that stops stem cells from turning into other cell types, allowing researchers to use these cells to develop new medical treatments more easily. Stem cells have the ability to develop into many other cell types in the b...'Scrawny' gene keeps stem cells healthy
Baltimore, MDStem cells are the body's primal cells, retaining the youthful ability to develop into more specialized types of cells over many cycles of cell division. How do they do it? Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have identified a gene, named scrawny, that appears to be a key factor in...A walk in the park a day keeps mental fatigue away
If you spend the majority of your time among stores, restaurants and skyscrapers, it may be time to trade in your stilettos for some hiking boots. A new study in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that spending time in nature may be more benefi...Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet
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