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  1. Health & Medicine

    High-fat diets slim down learning

    High-fat diets decrease the ability of male rats to learn and remember.

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  2. Oxygen deficit linked to ADHD

    Sleep apnea may be a risk factor for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Drug abuse could be an occupational hazard

    Breathing minuscule amounts of painkillers administered to patients in surgery may increase an anesthesiologist's risk of abusing prescription drugs.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Acne drug affects brain function

    The antiacne drug Accutane may decrease activity in a part of the brain that regulates mood.

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  5. Summer births linked to schizophrenia

    People who develop a severe form of schizophrenia are strikingly likely to have been born in June or July, raising the possibility that seasonal influences on early brain development contribute to this disorder.

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  6. Brain-based help for adults with dyslexia

    Intensive phonics instruction for adults with dyslexia yields brain changes that underlie their improved reading ability.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Malaria vaccine shows promise in Mozambique

    An experimental malaria vaccine tested on children in Mozambique provides some protection against the potentially life-threatening disease.

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  8. Paleontology

    Irish elk survived after ice age ended

    New fossil finds indicate that the so-called Irish elk, previously thought to have died out at the end of the last ice age, survived in some spots for several millennia more.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Prescription for Trouble: Antidepressants might rewire young brains

    Young mice exposed to a common type of antidepressant, known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), showed symptoms of anxiety and depression in adulthood.

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  10. Earth

    Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice

    With technology commonly used in oil fields, engineers could inject large volumes of seawater into sandy strata deep beneath Venice, Italy, to reverse the ground subsidence that plagues the city.

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  11. Chemistry

    Fatty acid makes busy micropotter

    A fatty acid commonly found in soap and vegetable oil assembles into microscopic, potterylike structures when it crystallizes.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Affairs of the Heartburn: Drugs for stomach acid may hike pneumonia risk

    Acid-blocking drugs seem to boost a person's chances of getting pneumonia.

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