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Top Stories | February 9
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Study finds people with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis have greatest risk during painful episodes.
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Study in slugs hints that some molecular 'misbehavior' in neurons may help solidify learning.
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Deleted Scenes Blog: Biomedical reporter Nathan Seppa describes latest chapter in controversy created by now debunked research.
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Women taking the antidepressant drugs began lactating later.
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Science & Society blog: The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.
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Science & Society blog: The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.Scientists identify a key proton channel that helps explain the dash to fertilization. The Environmental Protection Agency will be convening meetings of its Scientific Advisory Panel on pesticides throughout 2010 to probe concerns about the safety of atrazine, a weed killer on which most American corn growers rely. The first meeting of these outside experts started Tuesday. And although a large number of studies have indicated that atrazine can perturb hormones in animals and human cells — and might even pose a possible risk of cancer amongst heavily exposed people, these outcomes were not the focus of EPA’s review Tuesday. Risks to babies were. Boys can take a lot of ribbing from their peers for not being macho enough. A new study now indicates that it can take longer to begin transforming into a man if a boy starts out fat. Neurons coordinate activity less often than previously thought. |
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Gunshot victims may be more likely to survive if they get to the hospital quickly instead of getting spine stabilization first.1|30 Issue Links Protein level in blood reveals graft-versus-host disease, may indicate severity of this complication |
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