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<![CDATA[ Study published in the British Medical Journal identifies pollutant particles and nitrogen dioxide as main culprits. Breathing in large amounts of traffic fumes can trigger a heart attack up to six hours after exposure, […]

<![CDATA[ ‘Many of our fellow malaria researchers think that the fall in countries such as Tanzania, Eritrea, Rwanda, Kenya and Zambia shows that all the control programmes are working, particularly the use of mosquito nets,’

<![CDATA[ Precision tinted lenses can help reduce the discomfort experienced by some migraine sufferers by normalizing activity in the brain, a study suggests. Some people who suffer migraines ”are highly susceptible to stressful visual stimuli,”

<![CDATA[ While it may not make sense to boost HDL levels to try to prevent Alzheimer’s disease just yet, Launer and other experts note that higher levels of HDL have clearly been shown to protect

<![CDATA[ A key Democrat testified Wednesday against a major provision of the healthcare reform law that is intended to help control Medicare costs, but that Republicans have alleged will encourage “rationing” of care. Rep. Allyson

<![CDATA[ *Hospitalizations for alcohol and drug overdoses — alone or in combination — increased dramatically among 18- to 24-year-olds between 1999 and 2008, according to a study by researchers at the National *Institute* on *Alcohol

<![CDATA[ Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGS: SPPI), a biotechnology company with fully integrated commercial and drug development operations with a primary focus in hematology and oncology, today announced that it received approximately $25 million in proceeds from

<![CDATA[ An extract from sharks seems to fight a broad array of viruses, according to a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The chemical, called squalamine, was

<![CDATA[ Hormone therapy compounds differ significantly when it comes to their effects on cognition in postmenopausal women, especially on verbal memory, new research suggests. In a cohort study of almost 70 healthy women between the

<![CDATA[ In patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, elevations in blood levels of glucose and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) can be seen as much as 10 years earlier, Esther van ‘t Riet, PhD, from the Department