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Health Science News
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Today's health science headlines from the sources selected by our team:
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FDA: Evamist Exposure Risky for Children
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Doctors should advise women who use Evamist spray to prevent children from coming into contact with their medicated skin to avoid possible adverse events such as premature puberty for girls and enlarged breasts for boys, according to the FDA. Doctors should advise women who use Evamist spray to prevent children from coming into contact with their medicated skin to avoid possible adverse events such as premature puberty for girls and enlarged breasts for boys, according to the FDA.
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Dogs Imitate People
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Dogs just can?t help it. They automatically and voluntarily imitate the behavior of their owners, even if it costs them a snack. Dogs just can?t help it. They automatically and voluntarily imitate the behavior of their owners, even if it costs them a snack.
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Patients Lose Weight After Total Joint Replacement
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Osteoarthritis patients who were also obese lost weight after undergoing total knee or hip replacement surgery, according to a recent study published in Orthopedics. Osteoarthritis patients who were also obese lost weight after undergoing total knee or hip replacement surgery, according to a recent study published in Orthopedics.
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Regenerating damaged tissues: Bioscaffolds promote growth of joints in rabbits
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A team of researchers has successfully regenerated rabbit joints using a cutting-edge process to form the joint inside the body, or in vivo. Regenerative in vivo procedures are performed by stimulating previously irreparable organs or tissues to heal themselves. In this study, bioscaffolds, or three-dimensional structures made of biocompatible and biodegradable materials in the shape of the tissue, were infused with a protein to promote growth of the rabbit joint.
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Emerging E. coli strain causes many antimicrobial-resistant infections in US
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A new, drug-resistant strain of E. coli is causing serious disease, according to a new study. The new strain, ST131, was a major cause of serious antimicrobial-resistant E. coli infections in the United States in 2007, researchers found. This strain has been reported in multiple countries and encountered all over the United States.
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Tuberculosis advance: Existing drugs can potentially target the disease's ability to spread
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Often causing no symptoms in carriers of the disease, worldwide tuberculosis infects eight to ten million people every year, kills two million, and it is highly contagious as it is spread through coughing and sneezing. Now, researchers in Canada have found that existing drugs can potentially target the disease's ability to spread.
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Purple light means go, ultraviolet light means stop
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(University of Rochester) A new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used. It is the first time that scientists have developed a membrane that can be controlled in this way by light.
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SIDS surprise: Study finds that infant boys are more easily aroused from sleep than girls
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(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) At 2 to 4 weeks of age, the mean strength of a pulsatile air-jet stimulus that was required to induce arousal during quiet sleep was significantly lower in male infants than female infants. At 2 to 3 months of age when the SIDS risk peaks, this gender difference in arousal threshold was no longer significant. Results suggest that there are no gender differences in arousability that could increase the vulnerability of male infants to SIDS.
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Short and long sleep durations are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease
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(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) The risk of any cardiovascular disease for adults who reported sleeping five hours per day or less was more than two times higher than that of people who reported a daily sleep duration of seven hours (adjusted odds ratio = 2.20). Participants who reported sleeping nine hours or more per day also had an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (adjusted OR = 1.57). Results were adjusted for potential confounders including smoking, diabetes, hypertension and depression.
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