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    ADHD Incidence May Be Reduced In Breastfed Children

    Breastfeeding has a positive impact on the physical and mental development of infants. A new study suggests that breastfeeding may protect against the development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later in childhood. The study is reported in Breastfeeding Medicine, the Official...
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    Mice With Reduced Caloric Intake Accumulate Longer Telomeres, Reduce Their Incidence

    One of the indicators of a cell's health is the state of its DNA and containers - the chromosomes - so when these fuse together or suffer anomalies, they can become the source of illnesses like cancer and/or ageing processes... More...
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    Greater Incidence Of Babies With Retinoblastoma In US-Born Latinas

    In a large epidemiologic study, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center found that the children of U.S.-born Latina women are at higher risk of having retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor of the retina which typically occurs in children under six. The study, which focused on babies born in...
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    Very Low Incidence Of Stroke From Cardiac Catheterizations

    When a patient undergoes a cardiac catheterization procedure such as a balloon angioplasty, there's a slight risk of a stroke or other neurological complications. While the risk is extremely small, neurologists nevertheless may expect to see catheterization-induced complications because so many...
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    Higher Incidence Of Diabetes In Native-Americans Linked To Fat-Hoarding Genes Likely

    Why do Native Americans experience high rates of diabetes? A common theory is that they possess fat-hoarding "thrifty genes" left over from their ancestors - genes that were required for survival during ancient cycles of feast and famine, but that now contribute to the disease in a modern world...
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    Incidence Of Urinary Tract Infections Greater In Uncircumcised Boys

    Uncircumcised boys are at higher risk of urinary tract infection, regardless of whether the urethra is visible, found a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Urinary tract infections are one of the most common serious bacterial infections in children and, if not...
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    Can anybody explain the following incidence please and what should I do about it?

    Last week was in My mothers house and heard many creaks in the night, every night. One night I kept getting awoken by something whispering Hello Amy, my name in a creepy loud noise but as a whisper, creaks, something on the door but slightly like a tiny tap or something, I saw a dark shadow...
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    Could Additives In Hot Dogs Affect Incidence Of Colon Cancer?

    The addition of ascorbate (vitamin C) or its close relative, erythorbate, and the reduced amount of nitrite added in hot dogs, mandated in 1978, have been accompanied by a steep drop in the death rate from colon cancer, according to data presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on...
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    High Incidence Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria In Afghan Patients

    Afghan patients treated at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan often carry multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, according to a report in the September issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The findings...
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    Study Highlights Incidence Of Cardiovascular Disease-Related Events And All-Cause Hos

    Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced results from a retrospective study of nearly 375,000 type 2 diabetes patients evaluating the incidence of events related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause hospitalizations among...
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    Study Examines Incidence Of Gastric Cancer

    The incidence of a certain type of gastric cancer has declined in the last 30 years for all age groups and races, except for whites 25 to 39 years of age, according to a study in the May 5 issue of JAMA. Gastric cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer and the second most common among...
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    Gender Differences In Lung Cancer Incidence: Smoke Exposure Alters Gene Expression An

    Lung cancer rates are increasing substantially in women, particularly in non-smoking women, with no known reason for the increase. Now researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center may have uncovered a critical piece in the puzzle. Working in a mouse model of smoking-induced lung cancer, Margie...
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    No Change In Brain Tumor Incidence During A Time When Cell Phone Usage Increased

    There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Although cell phone use has been proposed as a risk...
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    Climate Change Could Boost Incidence Of Civil War In Africa

    Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and published in the online issue of the journal Proceedings of the...
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    What impact does food advertising have on the increasing incidence of...

    ...nutrition related health issues in Aus? What impact does food advertising have on the increasing incidence of nutrition related health issues in Australia?
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    discuss the Food Standard Agency's role in reducing the incidence of food...

    ...poisoning (8 marks)? i just want some starting points which i can expand on. i have a mental block. thanks the 8 marks is for the question, not for the people who answer!
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    • agency discuss food incidence reducing role standard
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