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The Algorithm That Creates Diets That Work for You Take a slice of cake and cut it in two. Eat one half, and let a friend scoff the other. Your blood-sugar levels will both spike, but to different degrees depending on your genes, the bacteria in your gut, what you recently ate, how recently or ...
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Diabetes Diets Work Differently in People with Different Gut Bacteria The glycemic index is used to help diabetics and dieters make healthier choices. But how well it works may have to do with what lives in your digestive system.
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Study of the Tsimane people of Bolivia examines how parasitism affects female ... When Melanie Martin was a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara doing fieldwork in Bolivia, she and her husband decided the time was right to start a family.
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Nutritional value of food depends critically upon gut of the eater Researchers from the Israeli Weizmann Institute have reported data that suggest general dietary recommendations may be of limited utility, because individuals vary enormously in their blood glucose response to any given food.
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Parasitic worm 'increases women's fertility' A study of 986 indigenous women in Bolivia indicated a lifetime of Ascaris lumbricoides, a type of roundworm, infection led to an extra two children.
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Scientists Have Found Bacteria Resistant To 'Last Resort' Drug Scientists have discovered a bacteria mutation that they say is resistant to an antibiotic typically considered "the last line of defense" against virulent strains of E. coli and pneumonia.
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Global Brain Health Institute to help developing nations better understand ... The announcement of launch of a new institute named Global Brain Health Institute has been made Monday by UC San Francisco and the University of Dublin.
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NIH Says it Will Retire the Last 50 of its Research Chimpanzees In good news for animal right advocates, the National Institutes of Health announced yesterday that it was retiring the last 50 chimpanzees that it has been holding in captivity for research purposes.
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NIH won't fund more invasive research on chimps The National Institutes of Health has announced that it will end its support for invasive research on chimpanzees and retire the 50 chimps it had set aside for biomedical research.
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Sleep Schedule Changes Can Harm Health Even little adjustments to your sleep schedule could be detrimental to your health, according to a recent study. Researchers found that study participants who had a greater misalignment between sleep schedules on free and work days tended to have ...
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Report Highlights Concerns on Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' in Farm Animals Animals raised with no antibiotics are less likely to contain drug-resistant "superbug" bacteria than those routinely given antibiotics, according to a new report.
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Meat industries refute Consumer Reports' latest antibiotics claims Consumer Reports' much-promoted "report" on meat and antibiotic resistance provides no new information of value to consumers beyond the fact that there are a wide variety of safe choices available on the marketplace for consumers to select, the North ...
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GNC Holdings suspends sale of USPlabs products Nutritional products retailer GNC Holdings Inc said it was suspending sales of all products manufactured by USPlabs LLC after the U.S.
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NIH to retire the last of government-owned research chimps WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Institutes of Health is sending its last remaining research chimpanzees into retirement - as soon as a federal sanctuary has room for them.
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Can Charlie Sheen Save Lives? The Daily Beast talked to the Oregon-based Dr. Louis Picker about current treatment, Charlie Sheen, and the hope for a cure. Shop ▾.
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Genetically Engineered Salmon Approved for Consumption Federal regulators on Thursday approved a genetically engineered salmon as fit for consumption, making it the first genetically altered animal to be cleared for American supermarkets and dinner tables.
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Once-a-week sex makes for happy couples Nearly one in 10 Americans has some type of lifelong drug use disorder, a new federal government survey finds. Nearly one in 10 Americans has some type of lifelong drug use disorder, a new federal government survey finds.
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Alarming new "superbug" gene found in animals and people in China LONDON, A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China - including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Are At Record Levels, According To The CDC, So ... Compared to many developed nations, the United States already has an extremely high rate of STDs, and it seems that our numbers aren't getting any better.
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Breast cancer: Pigeons as good as humans at spotting signs in biopsy samples ... Pigeons are as good as humans at spotting signs of breast cancer in biopsy samples and mammogram scans, according to remarkable new research.
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Court Tells Hospital Not to Pull Plug in Reno Case Saint Mary's statement related to the Hailu case: "Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center is aware of the court's decision and understands the difficult nature of the situation.
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Nevada court tells hospital not to pull plug in Reno case RENO, Nev. (AP) - The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Reno hospital must keep a 20-year-old comatose college student on life-support, pending a review of the legality of a medical standard used to determine she was brain dead.
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Gene Scan Finds Surprising Mutations in Kids With Cancer More than 8 percent of children with cancer have unsuspected genetic mutations that could run in their families, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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How Much Sex Makes You Happy? Surprisingly, having sex once a week seems to be all you need. Shop ▾. Happy people have more sex. Or is it that people who have sex are happier?
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Study: Men eating more to impress women That's the advice from a new study by Cornell University that revealed men tend to eat nearly double the amount of food when on a date with the opposite sex.
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Modern men tend to overeat like cavemen as a way of showing off to women Maybe it's due to our evolution from the era of cavemen when the strongest and fastest hunters would have the biggest bounty to eat.
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How safe are your dietary supplements? This week's fraud charges against two popular dietary supplement makers may have many people eyeballing the bottles and boxes of supplements on their kitchen counters, wondering if the vitamins, protein powders, and herbs they pop every day are safe.
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STD Rates Sky Rocket For Millennials The latest reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on sexually transmitted diseases is not good for millennials.
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STD rates rise dramatically, especially among men ATLANTA - The news in this year's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on sexually transmitted diseases is not good.
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STD cases reaching all-time highs in US, California Much to the worry of public health officials, new data show that cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in California have reached an all-time high.
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Seventeen 'Tier 2' Hospitals Go to Court to Block Horizon's OMNIA Plans Steven M. Goldman, former commissioner of the state Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) under Gov. Jon Corzine. If Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey's OMNIA health plans launch at the end of the year, they may first have to overcome ...
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17 N.J. hospitals sue state for approving Horizon's new health plans TRENTON - Claiming the state "abdicated its responsibility" to act in the public interest, 17 hospitals filed an appeal Thursday challenging the Christie administration's approval of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey's new line of ...
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AMA calls for banning consumer ads for prescription drugs, medical devices Physicians at the Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association adopted a new policy that promotes banning direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices.
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Drink Coffee and Live Longer, New Study Finds Another day, another study on the effects of coffee on your health. But hey, when the news is good, the coffee lovers among us will take it.
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Moderate coffee drinkers have lower death risk This may make you reach for a cup of coffee even after you're wide awake. The results of the study are based on data of three ongoing researches in which more than 200,000 men and women are involved.
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GNC Holdings suspends sale of USPlabs products Nov 19 Nutritional products retailer GNC Holdings Inc said it was suspending sales of all products manufactured by USPlabs LLC after the U.S.
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Sydney married mum-of-four spent a decade struggling illness before she was ... "ONE day, I went to work and I didn't know where I was, why I was there, or even who I was. My memory was beginning to go and I kept it secret because I thought I was developing early onset dementia," said married mum-of-four Dianne Nyoni.
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GeoVax to Commemorate World AIDS Day 2015 GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTCQB: GOVX) - On December 1, individuals and organizations across the globe will observe World AIDS Day 2015. GeoVax plans to commemorate the day by celebrating the progress made toward the development of a vaccine against ...
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N.D. sees a rise in HIV infections in past five years FARGO -- The number of people living with HIV or AIDS in North Dakota has risen sharply in recent years, partly reflecting the state's population growth.
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Global Drug Spending Forecast: $1.4 Trillion by 2020 Global spending on medicine will increase roughly 30% in the next 5 years, reaching $1.4 trillion by 2020, according to projections from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics released today.
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Worries over conditions at HB animal shelter may cause Newport to switch Then-Newport Beach Mayor Mike Henn cuts a ribbon in 2011 at the Orange County Humane Society in Huntington Beach, which provides animal services for the city.
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Doctors Could be Penalized for Ordering Prostate Tests Medicare officials are considering a measure that would penalize doctors who order routine prostate-cancer screening tests for their patients, as part of a federal effort to define and reward quality in health-care services.
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Oklahoma governor wants funding cut to Planned Parenthood affiliates TULSA, Okla. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican, has requested that the state's Health Care Authority cut its contracts with two Planned Parenthood affiliates, citing high rates of billing errors, her office said on Thursday.
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Game Changing Alcoholism Drug Could Be Used To Cure HIV (Photo : Getty Images/Jeff Schear) A drug used to treat alcoholism could be the key to treating dormant HIV. A drug used to treat alcoholism is likely a "game changer" in the fight to cure HIV, writes The Daily Beast.
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Moderate Coffee Drinking May Be Linked to Reduced Death Risk Drinking a second or third cup of coffee may do more than get you through a long day—it may also reduce your risk of death from heart disease and other illnesses.
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Same Sex Couple Have Legal Recognition For Unions In Ireland In May, Ireland became the first nation to legalize such unions by a popular vote. Richard Dowling and Cormac Gollogly have been together for 12 years, engaged for five, and on Tuesday were finally able to marry when they became the first gay couple to ...
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Boston mayor aims to raise smoking age to 21 BOSTON Boston could become the latest in a string of large U.S. cities to ban smoking and tobacco use by people under the age of 21 under a measure proposed on Wednesday by Mayor Marty Walsh.
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Walsh proposes raising age limit for cigarettes to 21 Boston teenagers would be prohibited from purchasing cigarettes or other tobacco products under strict rules being proposed by Mayor Martin J. Walsh and his administration.
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New study shows that taste, like all reality, is but a fragile illusion You probably know that we perceive five basic tastes, and that taste has something to do with the tongue and the brain. But a new study shows just how weird our perception of reality truly is: Scientists showed that all it takes to convince a mouse ...
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