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		<title>Fatty acid in fish protects against polyps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Isom-Leeds</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bowel cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[familial adenomatous polyposis]]></category>
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Scientists observed a significant reduction in the size and number of pre-cancerous growths, known as polyps, during a six month trial of the omega-3 preparation. &#8220;The particular preparation of EPA that we used delivers approximately four times as much beneficial polyunsaturated fatty acid per day as is derived from eating two to three portions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher blood pressure in lonely adults</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Harms-Chicago</dc:creator>
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Older people who say they are lonely are more likely to have higher blood pressure even if they don’t have conditions such as being overweight that would cause blood pressure to rise. &#8220;Loneliness behaved as though it is a unique health-risk factor in its own right,&#8221; writes researcher Louise Hawkley. (Credit: Dan Dry/University of Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flaxseed nudges down high cholesterol</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ferlazzo-Iowa State</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lipitor]]></category>
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&#8220;Because there are people who can&#8217;t take something like Lipitor, this could at least give you some of that cholesterol-lowering benefit,&#8221; says Suzanne Hendrich. &#8220;The other thing is, there are certainly some people who would prefer to not use a drug, but rather use foods to try to maintain their health. So this potentially would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV cells&#8217; secret hideout discovered</title>
		<link>http://futurity.org/health-medicine/hiv-cells-secret-hideout-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantell Kirkendoll-Michigan</dc:creator>
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U. MICHIGAN (US)—HIV-infected cells lie in wait in hidden reservoirs, ready to jump on the chance to serve as a factory for new infection, a new study shows.
Researchers believe the findings, published online in Nature Medicine, indicate a new target for curing the disease.
&#8220;Antiviral drugs have been effective at keeping the virus at bay, says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More plaques in children of Alzheimer&#8217;s patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorinda Klein-NYU</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brain imaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain scan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical history]]></category>
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Two views of a composite image of the brains analyzed in Lisa Mosconi&#8217;s study highlight the average increase in amyloid-beta deposits among 14 healthy adults with a mother affected by Alzheimer&#8217;s. Regions in yellow have 4 times more amyloid than the corresponding regions of 14 healthy counterparts with no family history of dementia, while regions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why some teens start having sex (again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Fox Aisen-Indiana</dc:creator>
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&#8220;We conducted this study to better understand the factors that influenced teenage girls who became sexually active again after a period of abstinence. With this new understanding we can better help young women remain healthy and avoid unwanted pregnancy,&#8221; says Mary Ott, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. (Courtesy: iStockphoto)
INDIANA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blacks skip tests, despite high cancer risk</title>
		<link>http://futurity.org/health-medicine/blacks-skip-tests-despite-high-cancer-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Baker-Buffalo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epidemiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hispanic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical diagnostics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medical screening]]></category>
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&#8220;Our level of perceived cancer risk can affect our health and longevity,&#8221; says Heather Orom. &#8220;In order to reach all racial and ethnic groups successfully about the importance of cancer screening, we need to know their perceptions of being at risk for cancer, why and how those perceptions differ and which are most important for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obese bodies forget how to fight flu</title>
		<link>http://futurity.org/health-medicine/obese-bodies-forget-how-to-fight-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patric Lane-UNC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[immune system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immunology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influenza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]></category>
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During flu seasons, health-care practitioners often see obese patients who struggle more with influenza viruses than leaner patients. Some researchers and doctors have speculated that excess fat constricts lung volume, or that obesity causes chronic inflammation, which influences the immune response. However, new research suggests that obesity restricts memory T cell function, which help protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flipping the switch to trigger cell suicide</title>
		<link>http://futurity.org/health-medicine/flipping-the-switch-to-trigger-cell-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Scott CU-Boulder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apoptosis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[C. elegans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caspase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cellular biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromosome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developmental biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enzyme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[molecular biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Colorado at Boulder]]></category>

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The discovery of a novel cellular &#8220;switch&#8221; in the popular laboratory research worm C. elegans (above) may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death in humans to treat disease, including cancer. Since the failure of apoptosis is one of the main contributors to the development of tumors, understanding of the programmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnancy problems surface after earthquake</title>
		<link>http://futurity.org/health-medicine/pregnancy-problems-surface-after-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Devitt-NYU</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birthweight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sociology]]></category>
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By measuring birth outcomes for infants born before, during, and after the 2005 earthquake in Tarapaca, as well as those born within and outside the affected regions, and controlling for maternal and county-level characteristics, the study isolated the effect of exposure to the catastrophe from other determinants of birthweight. Above, a street in Tarapaca following [...]]]></description>
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