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Health & Fitness – A leader in recent research on the interaction of genes and environment in the development of psychiatric illness, Avshalom Caspi, Ph.D. of King's College London, has been awarded the Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D., Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology.
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Health & Fitness – Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University have identified the neurological basis of depression in male athletes with persisting post-concussion symptoms. The study, published in this week's issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, has important clinical implications for the treatment of individuals who have suffere
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Health & Fitness – The Dental Practitioners Association chose the release of a survey by the Citizens Advice Bureaux showing 7.4m people have been unable to access NHS dentistry to make a series of media appearances to highlight the shortcomings of the NHS contract introduced in April 2006.
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Health & Fitness – The World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc., (WTEC), the nation's leading organization for conducting international technology assessments, has recruited a panel of U.S. experts to study the worldwide advances in simulation-based engineering and science.
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Health & Fitness – A new National Research Council report chaired by University of Colorado at Boulder Distinguished Professor Frank Barnes calls for a stronger research effort on the potential health effects of exposure to radio frequency energy tied to the global explosion in wireless technology like cell phones, laptops and hand-held Web-surfing gadgets.Re
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Health & Fitness – eCardio Diagnostics announced it will release several new exclusive product features and services at the Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, an international meeting of cardiology specialists. The additions will further enhance the clinical utility and medical benefits of the company's cardiac diagnostic product line and service offering.
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Health & Fitness – Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted final approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Pravastatin Sodium Tablets, 80 mg.
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Health & Fitness – A new research centre bringing medics and engineers together to solve clinical problems is set to make Manchester a world leader in patient care.
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Health & Fitness – Matters of the mind can affect matters of the heart. A new study by Université de Montréal and McGill University researchers has found that major anxiety and/or depression, can double a coronary artery disease patient's chances of repeated heart ailments.
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Health & Fitness – Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center and other parts of the University of California, San Diego - conducting research in Parkinson's Disease, fusion energy and climate change - were awarded supercomputing time by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of its 2008 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Exp
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Health & Fitness – The end of 2007 brought to a close RehabCare's "Year of Caring," a designation given in commemoration of the Company's 25th anniversary. Through company-sponsored events, employee donations, merchandise sales and raffles, RehabCare raised over $27,000 collectively for its four adopted charities: the American Heart Association, Susan G.
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Health & Fitness – A study led by McGill University researchers has demonstrated that small differences between individuals at the DNA level can lead to dramatic differences in the way genes produce proteins. These, in turn, are responsible for the vast array of differences in physical characteristics between individuals.
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Health & Fitness – Public health officials are constantly in battle mode against illness from food contaminants or a possible pandemic, but to fight these deadly foes they need more complete information and they need it faster.
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Health & Fitness – There are "major gaps" in identifying and treating traumatic brain injuries in servicemembers, according to an Army task force report released on Thursday, USA Today reports. According to the report, which was completed in May 2007, the gaps "were created by a lack of coordination and policy-driven approaches.
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Health & Fitness – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is providing urgently needed medical equipment and supplies to the thousands of people displaced by political violence in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi as well as affected areas in other parts of the country, including Nakuru, Eldoret, Kisumu and Mombasa.
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