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Stress at work - the focal point of illness
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Stress at work - the focal point of illness

Studies have shown that workplace pressures can increase the incidence of heart disease, influenza, digestive disorders and high blood pressure. Stress also changes the…

December 14, 2018
France: Opening the Human Brain Research Center
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France: Opening the Human Brain Research Center

On November 24, France launched NeuroSpin Human Brain Research Center, which is considered to be the world's largest research center in this area. French Prime Minister…

December 14, 2018
Yogurt can help women prevent HIV
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Yogurt can help women prevent HIV

Lactobacillus, a harmless bacterium that helps milk turn into yogurt, can be genetically engineered to produce substances that prevent HIV transmission. The special thin…

December 14, 2018
Drug-resistant TB spreads in Africa
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Drug-resistant TB spreads in Africa

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the spread of XDR-TB after the South Africa reported more than 300 human infections in the country yesterday.

December 14, 2018
Boy 'pregnant' in stomach
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Boy 'pregnant' in stomach

In the stomach of a boy who was just born at the Hernan Henriquez Hospital in Temuco, southern Chile, doctors discovered a fetus with limbs and spinal cord. But this fet…

December 14, 2018
Terrible harm from cigarettes
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Terrible harm from cigarettes

With cigarettes, smokers do not see immediate harm but it gradually enters, destroys organs in the body, causing some serious diseases like lung cancer, necrosis ...

December 14, 2018
Vietnam can successfully control epidemics
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Vietnam can successfully control epidemics

At the Scientific Conference of the World Pasteur Institutes, Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan affirmed: with the cooperation and help of the internat…

December 14, 2018
Is the intestine redundant?
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Is the intestine redundant?

Recently, scientists found that the appendix has an important role in the fetus and in young people. Endocrine cells appear in the appendix of the fetus around the 11th…

December 14, 2018