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A new report underscores the notion that stroke risks go beyond geographic and racial differences. University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Vermont researchers report in the Annals of Neurology that non-traditional risk factors must explain the South’s higher stroke death rate. What those factors are need further study, but clearly diabetes and hypertension play an important role, the study authors said.

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For the first time, the FDA will evaluate a drug that comes from a genetically modified animal, a production method that could yield cheap drugs that could be used to.

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Higher-than-normal levels of insulin place postmenopausal women at increased risk of breast cancer, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University report.

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One of the most enduring questions is how life could have begun on Earth. Molecules that can make copies of themselves are thought to be crucial to understanding this process as they provide the basis for heritability, a critical characteristic of living systems.

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Scientists at the GKSS Research Centre of Geesthacht/Germany and the University of Bern/Suisse have investigated the frequency of warmer than average years between 1880 and 2006 for the first time. The result: the observed increase of warm years after 1990 is not a statistical accident. The results will now be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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Cardiac arrest patients in large, urban, and teaching hospitals are more likely to survive compared to those in small, often rural, non-academic hospitals, according to a Penn Medicine study published recently in the journal Intensive Care Medicine. A second study, published in Resuscitation, suggests that patients who are cared for in the highest volume intensive care units after cardiac arrest are also most apt to survive.

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The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide — laughing gas — may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL. The study’s findings — that people are more suggestible under the gas — mean that dental patients may benefit from being coached to relax while undergoing sedation.

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A new theory referred to as the Decrease-Radix Design is proposed. And based on this theory, the regulations of making multi-valued logic operation units are presented. The theory has laid down a solid foundation for the design of re-constructible logic units in ternary optical computers as well as any other multi-valued computers.

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The results of a new study in Psychological Science reveal that the brain does not have a distinct preference for certain cues during reorientation. These findings indicate that the brain takes into account a number of factors, including the environment and our past experiences, while determining the best way to reorient us to our surroundings.

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Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a prerequisite to admission have, until now, received little attention. Now, a new University of Georgia study reveals how two men traveled the Deep South, facing hostility and risking violence, to ensure that students received fair and impartial treatment.

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