A mother’s “basic instinct” to grab her wandering offspring and return them to the nest depends on a specific set
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Centegra Health slashes ER door-to-doc times by 64% with specialty EHR
About five years ago, Centegra Health System, a three-hospital system in northwest Chicago, implemented McKesson Paragon as the organization's electronic
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Tobacco products promoted on Facebook despite policies, researchers find
Tobacco products are marketed and sold through unpaid content on Facebook—in some cases, without regard for the age of potential
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Parkinson’s disease and binge eating
The results of a new study conducted by Damiano Terenzi, Raffaella Rumiati and Marilena Aiello of SISSA show that “binge
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Vegetables may help protect elderly women from hardening of neck arteries
Elderly Australian women who ate more vegetables showed less carotid artery wall thickness, according to new research in Journal of
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Computer system transcribes words users ‘speak silently’: Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations
MIT researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but does not actually
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Timing of stress-hormone pulses controls weight gain
New research provides the first molecular understanding of why people gain weight due to chronic stress, disrupted circadian rhythms and
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In zebrafish, the cholera bacterium sets off a surprising flush: Researchers unveil the possible mechanics of a cholera invasion of a host
Researchers experimenting with live zebrafish witnessed a 200-percent increase in the strength of intestinal contractions soon after exposure to the
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Fragile X imaging study reveals differences in infant brains
For the first time, UNC School of Medicine researchers have used MRIs to show that babies with the neurodevelopmental condition
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Two-pronged approach could curb many cases of lung cancer: Metabolic approach halts lung tumors by starving them
Non-small-cell lung cancer, the most common type of lung cancer, is the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S.
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