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Credit: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Infectious disease preparedness work focuses predominantly on an historical list of pathogens derived...
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TGen, Northwestern University study of ‘SuperAgers’ offers genetic clues to performance
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Now, you can hold a copy of your brain in the palm of your hand
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University What if you could hold a physical model of your own brain in your...
Prediction method for epileptic seizures developed
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Smoking, lack of exercise linked to early death after divorce
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Soy lecithin NSAID combo drug protects against cancer with fewer side effects, UTHealth reports
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Cognitive training reduces depression, rebuilds injured brain structure & connectivity after traumatic brain injury
New research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas shows that certain cognitive training exercises...
Agenda now available for the Structural Heart Disease Summit 2018
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High-risk, undertreated mystery heart attacks occurring more commonly in women
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Self-tuning brain implant could help treat patients with Parkinson’s disease
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Young women at high genetic risk of breast cancer — plastic surgeons play key role in treatment
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