Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The associations between specific pesticides and incident diabetes ranged from a 20 percent to a 200 percent increase in risk, said the scientists with [...]
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Flip flops are the latest scourge to hit our mean streets. According to a report by American College of Sports Medicine, the innocent looking flip flop is creating havoc for wearers everywhere. Causing leg pain across the US (the problem has something to do with the way we grab the middle part with our toes) [...]
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Tobacco smokers who eat three servings of fruits and vegetables per day and drink green or black tea may be protecting themselves from lung cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by UCLA cancer researchers.
UCLA researchers found that smokers who ingested high levels of natural chemicals called flavonoids in their diet had a lower [...]
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A vaccine aimed at inducing immunity to the most common and deadly type of brain tumor may stave off recurrence and more than double survival in patients, according to a new study led by researchers in Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.
%26quot;This vaccine represents a very promising therapy for a cancer that comes out [...]
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KineMed and Daiichi Sankyo announced that researchers have discovered a key difference in bile acid metabolism in people with type 2 diabetes which may suggest a newly identified underlying disorder.
It has long been known that bile acids help the body absorb fat and cholesterol. In the last decade, we learned that bile acids are important [...]
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