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A two-year field study in Mississippi evaluated the effect of nitrogen, growth stage (bud formation and flowering), and harvest time (first in mid-July, second beginning of October) on peppermint yields, oil content, and composition.

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A study conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio offers the first evidence that the drug rapamycin is able to reverse Alzheimer’s disease-like deficits in an animal model.

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UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death, and in addition found a specific genetic variation that seems to break that link. Additionally, they have developed a computer model of gene-environment interactions to more efficiently probe the “genetic haystack.”

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A national survey of large and small colleges and universities aimed at identifying brand connection and affinity among alumni shows that while size may matter, large public universities can compete on the same playing field as a small, private college.

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A pair of University of Houston researchers found a possible new solution to a 163-year-old puzzle. Ecological factors can now be added to physiology to explain why animals grow bigger in the cold. Their results were published in the February issue of the American Naturalist, offering new insight to Bergmann’s rule that animals grow larger at high, cold latitudes than their counterparts closer to the equator, hypothesizing that better food makes high-latitude animals bigger.

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A recent study found that taxing unhealthy food reduces the amount of calories purchased more than subsidizing healthy foods.

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A Chilean hospital’s early use of antiviral treatment in influenza patients and other aggressive measures helped reduce the number of severe H1N1 cases and related deaths. Those are the findings of a new study, now available online, published in the March 15, 2010, issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Older women who are divorced, separated, or widowed or who have never married havetwice the uninsured rate of their married peers, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The study, entitled Health and Health Care Access Among California Women Ages 50-64, examines a range of health issues among California’s approximately 3 million older women, an age group that often faces new and accelerated chronic health conditions.

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Integrating real-time Internet-based infectious disease surveillance with knowledge of worldwide air traffic patterns could help in confronting infectious disease threats at mass gatherings, such as the Olympics and other large scale events, suggests an article in CMAJ.

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An international research team led by Columbia University Medical Center successfully used mouse embryonic stem cells to replace diseased retinal cells and restore sight in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. This strategy could potentially become a new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a leading cause of blindness that affects approximately one in 3,000 to 4,000 people, or 1.5 million people worldwide. The study appears online ahead of print in the journal Transplantation.

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