Health
Therapy dogs lift spirits of returning Soldiers at Camp Atterbury
Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Houston, and Staff Sgt. Travis Gilbert, both from the Michigan Army National Guard's 1225th Corps Support Battalion, watch 3-year-old therapy dog, Lugnut, do a trick Aug. 4, 2011, at Camp Atterbury, Ind. The two Soldiers recently returned with their unit from a 10-month deployment in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Start Your HIV Prevention Planning for Adolescent Health with the New School Year
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TIMOR-LESTE: Women slow to adopt safer birth practices
Timor Leste has a high total fertility rate
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HEALTH: WHO malnutrition initiative
A key challenge in fighting malnutrition has been the vast and often conflicting evidence and advice on nutrition information (file photo)
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Darfur: UN aid workers bring relief supplies to remote area of conflict-hit region
Villagers in North Darfur with water rollers distributed by the UN Mission
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Early Morning Smokers Are More Addicted And At Greater Risk Of Cancer
Early morning cigarettes are a proxy for the level of addiction, researchers say.
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Soy Pills Fail To Counter Menopause Effects Like Bone Loss
Woman who took a daily soy pill had no less bone loss after two years than others who took a sugar pill, a study found.
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Serotonin Helps Control Body Temperature and Breathing
Serotonin-producing cells in the mouse brain play an essential role in maintaining a healthy balance in body temperature and breathing. The finding might help to shed light on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other disorders linked to abnormal serotonin activity.
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Gene Defect Linked to Disfiguring Disorder
Jordan, 16, from Bexhill, UK, has Proteus syndrome, an extremely rare overgrowth disorder that affects his fingers, spine and neck. At 14, he elected to undergo above-the-knee amputations of his legs, which had become severely affected by the condition, and now walks with prosthetic legs. Courtesy of the Proteus Syndrome Foundation UK.
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Treatment Helps With Kidney Transplants
About 1 in 3 candidates for kidney transplantation has a condition that causes their bodies to immediately reject transplanted organs. A new treatment promises to boost transplant success by “desensitizing” these patients to foreign human tissue. The treatment could lead to thousands more kidney transplants every year.
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Human Rights
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