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What Happens When You're Hypnotized?

Three distinct changes occur in the brain, scientists find.

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Is It Flu, or Is It Valley Fever?

Potentially fatal infection is found in Southwest U.S. and is often misdiagnosed, specialists say.

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77 million newborns globally not breastfed within first hour of life - UNICEF

Delayed breastfeeding increases risk of newborn deaths by up to 80 per cent

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Sumi Madhi a volunteer, on child feeding, nutrition and care interacts with mothers in Kudada, India.

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Study of Teen Brains Offers Clues to Timing of Mental Illness

Regions that undergo greatest change also where schizophrenia, depression genes are most strongly expressed.

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Family Lifestyles May Be as Important to Health as Genes

Shared habits and environment contribute to heart disease, high blood pressure and depression, study reports.

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Lack of Fitness Second Only to Smoking as Predictor of Early Death: Study

Increases in fitness levels were associated with greater longevity

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New medication shows promise against liver fibrosis in animal studies

A new drug developed by scientists at the National Institutes of Health limits the progression of liver fibrosis in mice, a hopeful advance against a condition for which there is no current treatment and that often leads to serious liver disease in people with chronic alcoholism and other common diseases.

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NIH launches early-stage yellow fever vaccine trial

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has begun an early-stage clinical trial of an investigational vaccine designed to protect against yellow fever virus. The Phase 1 study is evaluating whether an experimental vaccine developed by the Danish biopharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic is safe, tolerable and has the potential to prevent yellow fever virus infection.

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'Heat Dome' Not Budging Until Week's End

Eastern part of country still in its grip; experts offer safety advice.

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Does Dementia Diagnosis Have Silver Lining for Some?

People appreciate life more, worry about failing less after learning about their brain condition, study says.

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