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NFL retirees help scientists develop early test for brain condition CTE

04/10/2019 Brain, condition, CTE, develop, early, for, help, NFL, retirees, Scientists, Test

(HealthDay)—When NFL legend Frank Gifford died in 2015 at the age of 84, his family revealed that for years he’d

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Protein pileup affects social behaviors through altered brain signaling

04/10/2019 Affects, altered, behaviors, Brain, pileup, protein, signaling, social, through

Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) have discovered that when a normal cellular cleanup process is disrupted,

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New hope for preventing dangerous diabetes complication

04/07/2019 complication, dangerous, Diabetes, for, hope, New, preventing

People with diabetes who use insulin to control their blood sugar can experience a dangerous condition called hypoglycemia when blood

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No benefit seen with rituximab for chronic fatigue syndrome

04/06/2019 benefit, chronic, fatigue, for, no, rituximab, Seen, syndrome, with

(HealthDay)—In patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), B-cell depletion using several infusions of rituximab over 12 months is not

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Achilefu named fellow of medical and biological engineering institute

04/05/2019 biomedical engineering, cancer goggles, Department of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, radiology, Samuel Achilefu

Samuel Achilefu, PhD, the Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has

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Creating blood vessels on demand

04/04/2019 blood, Creating, demand, on, vessels

When organs or tissues are damaged, new blood vessels must form as they play a vital role in bringing nutrients

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Associating colours with vowels? Almost everyone does

04/04/2019 almost, Associating, colours, Does, everyone, vowels?, with

Does [a:] as in baa sound more green or more red? And is [i:] as in beet light or dark

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Want to understand accented speakers better? Practice, practice, practice

04/03/2019 accented, better, Practice, speakers, to, understand, Want

Conversation is at the heart of people’s lives. We use language to communicate our hopes and dreams to our closest

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Thyroid cancer surges—is TMI responsible?

04/02/2019 cancer, responsible?, surges—is, Thyroid, TMI

In most cases, the cause of thyroid cancer is unknown, according to Dr. David Goldenberg, chief of otolaryngology-head and neck

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Natural gene therapy for intractable skin disease discovered

04/01/2019 discovered, disease, for, gene, intractable, Natural, skin, therapy

Pathogenic gene mutations causing a type of intractable skin disease can be eliminated from some parts of patients’ skin as