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Japan creates permanent anti-decay patch
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Japan creates permanent anti-decay patch

Japanese scientists have successfully built an ultra-thin patch capable of covering, protecting teeth from decay and whitening teeth, according to AFP news on September…

December 14, 2018
Birth control pills increase staph infection
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Birth control pills increase staph infection

Through a health examination, scanning the nasal mucosa for 1,180 young men and women, doctors at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Tübingen, Germany discovered that…

December 14, 2018
Identify 5 genes that regulate face shapes
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Identify 5 genes that regulate face shapes

Scientists have identified five genes that regulate the shape of the human face. This finding may help to better understand facial abnormalities such as cleft palate as…

December 14, 2018
Vitamin B3 can help kill viruses
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Vitamin B3 can help kill viruses

Experts at Linus Pauling Institute of Oregon State University (USA) recently discovered vitamin B3 (also called vitamin PP) can help kill viruses like Methicillin-resist…

December 14, 2018
Protein discovery 'green giant'
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Protein discovery 'green giant'

Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Australia) have found a form of protein that plays an important role in the development of muscle mass without…

December 14, 2018
Medical disaster caused 10,000 malformed children
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Medical disaster caused 10,000 malformed children

Thalidomide is advertised as a sedative, relief of unpleasant morning sickness, and can be used by pregnant women, allegedly responsible for birth defects of more than 1…

December 14, 2018
Vitamin D helps TB patients recover faster
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Vitamin D helps TB patients recover faster

A study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) said that TB patients recover faster when taking antibiotics with vitam…

December 14, 2018
Extend respiration to save many patients' lives
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Extend respiration to save many patients' lives

The results of the American scientists' study published in the September 4 issue of The Lancet show that in hospitals, only doctors need to extend breathing time for a f…

December 14, 2018