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Health & Wellness News tagged with discovery

Internet Addiction Center Opens Near Microsoft HQ
Health & Wellness  (tags: technology, computer, computers, discovery, humans, internet, safety, health, humans, prevention, protection, society, treatment, abuse, ethics )

Suzybell
- 65 days ago - kdka.com
First Out-Patient Program Of Its Kind To Open In U.S. Helps Wean Clients From Pathological Computer Use.Addicts Pay $14,000 For 45-Day Treatment To Stop Obsessive Use Of Video Games, Texting, Facebook.Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing
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Tiny 'Nanobees' Fight Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, cure, bee, venom, nanobees, medicine, drugs, research, humans, healthcare, disease, illness, study, treatment, protection, safety, science, technology, discovery )

Tom
- 83 days ago - voanews.com
The challenge for anti-cancer drugs is how to use these deadly compounds to fight disease without harming the rest of the body. Dr. Sam Wickline may have found one solution. He develops tiny nanoparticles that carry medicine to the spot where it's needed.
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New HIV Strain Discovered in Woman From Cameroon
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AIDS/HIV, New Strain, simian virus, disease, illness, humans, wild gorillas, discovery, study, research, warning )

Dee
- 97 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus...
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Medicine Marijuana That (Really Can) Help People
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, science, discovery, interesting, medicine )

Nena
- 99 days ago - fizzyenergy.com
Medical marijuana has strong support from voters and health organizations. The federal government, however, has resisted any change to marijuana's illegal status at the federal level.
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Q. Did All Human Infectious Diseases Originate in Domesticated Animals?
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, risks, interesting, disease, illness, domesticated, swine, flu, infectious, measles, mumps, smallpox, animals, humans, research, science, investigation, discovery, study )

Tom
- 167 days ago - nytimes.com
A. Of 25 infectious diseases that have historically caused high mortality in human beings, many probably reached humans from domesticated animals. including diphtheria, influenza A, measles, mumps, pertussis, rotavirus, smallpox and tuberculosis.
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ON THIS DAY - 1984: Scientist Finds Aids Virus
Health & Wellness  (tags: on this day, aids, hiv, virus, scientist, discovery, usa, america, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome )

Chrissy
- 198 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The discovery of a virus which may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through America, has been hailed as a "monumental breakthrough" in medical research. The development was announced in Washington by US Health Secretary Margaret Heckler.
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Have We Reached the Tipping Point on Guns?
Health & Wellness  (tags: risks, safety, society, study, treatment, warning, protection, violence, sadness, interesting, discovery, ethics, death, environment, abuse )

Suzybell
- 215 days ago - newbocaguy.blogspot.com
How many shootings does there have to be in the news before we wonder about the wisdom of allowing just about anyone to get a gun in America? Our gun culture is completely out of control.In just the last two days we have had 13 people killed in Binghamto
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Skin Color Studies On Tadpoles Lead To Cancer Advance
Health & Wellness  (tags: Skin Cancer, research, science, tadpoles, study, discovery, health, humans )

Dee
- 280 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2009) -- The humble tadpole could provide the key to developing effective anti-skin cancer drugs, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
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Major Breakthrough in Ebola Research
Health & Wellness  (tags: ebola, virus, research, discovery, science, scientists, treatment, health, humans, illness, disease, study, interesting, protection )

John
- 613 days ago - en.afrik.com
Good news for research into the terrible Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus. American researchers have succeeded in genetically disarming the virus, thus rendering it non contaminant.
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Genetic Cancer Link Between Humans And Dogs Discovered
Health & Wellness  (tags: genetics, cancer, dogs, humans, research, science, health, investigation, scientists, discovery )

John
- 616 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Cancer researchers at the University of Minnesota and North Carolina State University have found that humans and dogs share more than friendship and companionship -- they also share the same genetic basis for certain types of cancer. Furthermore,
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Gecko's Stickiness Inspires New Surgical Bandage
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, technology, news, scientists, humans, interesting, discovery, health, healthcare, treatment, surgery )

Carla
- 627 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Borrowing a design from the agile, sticky-footed gecko, scientists have created a waterproof, biodegradable adhesive bandage that may one day replace conventional sutures.
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Toxoplasma Infection Increases Risk of Schizophrenia, Study Suggests
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, study, science, health, humans, illness, disease, medicine, science, society, environment, interesting, discovery, environment )

J.
- 662 days ago - hopkinschildrens.org
While most people infected with toxoplasma never develop schizophrenia, the parasite may be a trigger in those genetically predisposed to the disorder, a classic example of how genes and environment come together in the development of disease.
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Dr. Michel Obeid of Lebanon Discovers Major Cancer Drug
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, disease, medicine, research, treatment, study, cancer, lebanon, lebanese, discovery )

Juliana
- 670 days ago - yalibnan.com
Beirut & Paris - Lebanese Medical student Michel Obeid held a news conference at the National Council for Scientific Research in Beirut to talk about the medication he discovered few months back in France to treat cancer patients .
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Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors
Health & Wellness  (tags: Cancer, AnimalWelfare, discovery, interesting, medicine, research, scientists, health, alert, risks, study )

Summer
- 791 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Published in veterinary and toxicology journals between 1996 and 2006, the studies found that lab mice and rats injected with microchips sometimes developed subcutaneous "sarcomas" -- malignant tumors, most of them encasing the implants.
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Multiple Sclerosis Linked to 3 Genes in Studies; More Likely
Health & Wellness  (tags: multiple_sclerosis, genes, science, health, discovery )

Pretty
- 833 days ago - bloomberg.com
Scientists who screened the entire human genome have implicated at least three genes in the incurable nerve disorder Multiple Sclerosis, and hinted a dozen more might be involved.
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