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A girl who doesn't breathe nearly 20 minutes still lives
Every activity in the body of a two-year-old girl stopped when the medical staff pulled her up from the bottom of a water tank in a state of motionlessness.
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Chocolate, light wine and tea improve brain activity
According to researchers at Oxford University and colleagues in Norway, chocolate, light wine and tea increase mental performance.
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Peptide is a new treatment for influenza A virus
In a new study, researchers identified a peptide formed by antibodies that inhibits the activity of harmful bacteria such as virut influenza A and HIV-1.
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Reduce stress effectively with housework
A recent British study said that if you take 20 minutes a day to do housework, you will reduce stress and depression.
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Obesity in the United States
Stop eating cheese sandwiches and fried potatoes. Mature Americans are getting fat, the numbers revealed today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are te…
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Live lively, reduce the risk of cancer
People with active physical activity are less likely to suffer from cancers caused by less active activities such as bowel, liver, pancreatic cancer in men and stomach i…
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Weekend - the enemy of weight loss
Researchers at Washington Medical University said Saturday could be the most feared enemy to the waistline of people who want to preserve body weight.
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Fructose is bad for men
Men and women are very different in the way their bodies metabolize large amounts of fructose, a common single sugar used in beverages and food.
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The 'brain reading' device can predict what people see
A computer program can pair brain activity with visual images and predict what people are seeing. Works increase the possibility that one day the computer can 'read' n &…
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Why are we getting fatter and fatter?
50 years ago, the daily activities of most people were equivalent to walking 5-8 km per day. Today, people cannot cross that road for a week.
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Parental instincts are in every person
The urge to embrace and caress babies whenever they see them is an innate reaction of humans. The cause is partly due to the speciality of the baby's face.
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How does our body control time?
Our alarm clock can instantly be adjusted for an extra hour on March 9, but our biological clock needs a longer time to adjust to changes because of the watch. Our biolo…
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Culture affects brain activity
US scientists say people from different cultures use different regions of the brain to solve the same basic intuitive task.
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The biological clock guides the princess butterfly
Scientists have discovered that genetic mechanisms explain why monarch butterflies can fly from Canada to nest in Mexican mountains in the winter.
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Walk regularly to combat brain aging
A new Italian study finds: walking or exercising regularly for people age 65 or older can reduce the risk of schizophrenia.