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Novel device significantly reduces blood draw contamination, reduces risks to patients, study shows
A novel device can significantly reduce contamination of blood cultures, potentially reducing risky overtreatment and unnecessary use of...
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Space weather events linked to human activity
Human activities, like nuclear tests and radio transmissions, have been changing near-Earth space and weather, and have created artificial...
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Finding traces of memory processing during sleep
Sleep helps us to retain the information that we have learned during the day. We know from animal experiments that new memories are reactivated...
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Sports medicine: Blood results help to predict fitness improvements in older marathon runners
Endurance sport has a beneficial impact on physical and mental performance and this can be seen in blood test results. A group of researchers has...
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Loneliness in young adults linked to poor sleep quality
A link between loneliness and poor sleep quality has been identified in a study of more than 2,000 British young adults.
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Young women's gradual weight gain lifts pregnancy blood pressure danger
Researchers are challenging women to start thinking about pre-pregnancy health sooner, with the finding that years of gradual weight gain more than...
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Chemists create the ultimate natural sunscreen
Chemists, materials scientists and nanoengineers have created what may be the ultimate natural sunscreen. They report the development of...
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Study sheds light on link between diseases like Alzheimer's and normal aging in the brain
Neurodegenerative diseases are often associated with protein aggregates, highly intractable clumps of protein. Experiments on roundworms and mouse...
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During heat waves, urban trees can increase ground-level ozone
Planting trees is a popular strategy to help make cities 'greener,' both literally and figuratively. But scientists have found a counterintuitive...
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Analysis examines safety of antidepressant use during pregnancy
Use of fluoxetine -- the most commonly prescribed antidepressant -- during pregnancy is linked with a slightly increased risk of malformations in...
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Tool may help determine older adults' history of sports concussions
A new study in retired athletes takes the first steps in developing an objective tool for diagnosing a history of sports concussions.
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New test to rapidly diagnose sepsis
Researchers have developed a test that can rapidly and reliably diagnose sepsis, a potentially life-threatening complication of bacterial infections.