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100 Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About the Human Brain
Health & Wellness  (tags: Brain, Health, Fitness, Human, Body )

Jollygirl
- 357 days ago - nursingassistantcentral.com
The human brain has amazed and baffled people throughout the ages. Below, you will find 100 facts about the brain including how it works, how it develops, what it controls, how it affects sleep, dreams, and memory, and more.
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Deadly Virus Threatens China's Children: EV71 Is a Mutation of a Known Virus.   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: Hong Kong, denounce, China, Kill, Tibet, Australia, torch, relay, human, rights, tibet, dalai, CCP, news, Olympic, press, Lenovo )

Gregory
- 594 days ago - youtube.com
A deadly virus, EV71, has broken out in Anhui province with over 900 cases and the deaths of 20 children. Related to 'hand, foot and mouth' this virus has mutated into a deadly disease causing fever and brain swelling.
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Scientists Find a Quicker Way to Make Antibodies
Health & Wellness  (tags: antibodies, human, vaccination, infectious diseases, healthcare, research )

Eduardo
- 600 days ago - reuters.com
The process allowed them to make influenza-specific antibodies in as little as a month."In the face of a disease outbreak, the ability to quickly produce infection-fighting human monoclonal antibodies would be invaluable,"
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WHO Rules Out Human Transmission in Bird Flu Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: bird flu, death, human, transmission )

Elisabett
- 665 days ago - reuters.com
BEIJING (Reuters) - All three Chinese who died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu this year had contact with sick poultry, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, adding there was no evidence of transmission between humans. A 44-year-old woman in
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McDonald's Mice 'Becoming Human'
Health & Wellness  (tags: mcdonalds, mcd, mice, animal, testing, burgers, fries, diet, weight, human, scientists, nutrition, humans, food, fast food, vegetarian, chimps, vegan, chips )

Katie
- 692 days ago - tech.uk.msn.com
Mice fed a diet of McDonald's burgers and fries not only put on weight but start to develop human-like genetic traits, scientists have found.
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Beware the Signs of Extinction... Our Extinction
Health & Wellness  (tags: homesickness, depression, pornography, mankind, human, extinction, earthhumans, interesting )

Jason
- 703 days ago - zerotosuperhero.com
Homesickness, mental illness, widespread pornography... could these be foreshadowings of something about to go terribly wrong?
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HPV Test Helps Detect Cervical Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: HPV, human, virus, DNA testing, cancer, cervical cancer, risk )

Eduardo
- 811 days ago - women.webmd.com
Researchers reported that human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing combined with the Pap test detected the high-risk lesions that lead to cervical cancer earlier than Pap testing alone.
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Three Genes Behind Human Cognition and Learning Identified
Health & Wellness  (tags: genes, genetics, human, learning, cognition, brain, functioning, dopamine )

Eduardo
- 812 days ago - in.news.yahoo.com
Learning behaviors are linked to three separate genes, DARPP-32, DRD2, and COMT, associated with brain dopamine functioning. Dopamine is a chemical in the brain that is often associated with pleasure, learning and other behaviors.
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Smoking Is a Turn-on for Some Genes: Study
Health & Wellness  (tags: human, gene expression, smoking, cigerette, cancer, risk, science )

Eduardo
- 815 days ago - canada.com
Smoking may turn on some genes in the body in a permanent and harmful way, that may help explain why the risk of cancer remains high even after smokers quit. Many genetic changes that stop when a smoker quits, but several genes stay turned on for years.
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Common Dementia Linked to Loss of Specific Gene
Health & Wellness  (tags: dementia, progranulin, gene, mutations, human, neurological disorders )

Eduardo
- 815 days ago - news.webindia123.com
Progranulin gene mutations can lead to accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain, resulting in a common dementia. Mayo Clinic researchers believe that this mechanism may be important in a number of age-related neurological disorders.
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Why Don't Painkillers Work for People With Fibromyalgia?
Health & Wellness  (tags: pain, fibromyalgia, human, painkiller, receptor, morphine )

Eduardo
- 816 days ago - thehindu.com
Patients with fibromyalgia, a common chronic pain condition, were found to have reduced binding ability of a type of receptor in the brain that is the target of opioid painkiller drugs, and thus don't respond to the types of medication that relieve others
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Radical Research Results On The Oxidation Of Vitamin E
Health & Wellness  (tags: vitamin E, antioxidant, human, health, research )

Eduardo
- 819 days ago - medicalnewstoday.com
Recent research results have challenged conventional understanding of the oxidation of the "radical scavenger", vitamin E. Cutting-edge analysis methods have revealed that the intermediates commonly believed to be involved in the process do not occur.
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'One in 10 Girls Has STD Linked to Cancer By 16'
Health & Wellness  (tags: teens, health, girls, virus, human, sexually transmitted disease, HPV, cancer, risk )

Eduardo
- 824 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
At least one in 10 teenage girls is carrying a sexually-transmitted disease which could give them cancer. By the age of 18, around 20% of girls will have contracted the virus, while by the age of 24, 40% will have done so.
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Genes Causing Rheumatoid Arthritis Revealed
Health & Wellness  (tags: rheumatoid arthritis, genes, genetic variants, human, disease )

Eduardo
- 833 days ago - medicalnewstoday.com
Rheumatoid arthritis, the most common rheumatic disease, affecting ~1% of the population. Genetic variances were detected at three sites, two genes previously linked to the disease and a previously unresearched gene complex known as TRAF-C5.
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