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Everyday around the world there are news finding, this time appeared in the journal Current Biology, highlighting the need for further studies of the four genetically isolated species, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, which was part of the research. Until now, the gentle African...

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(Everydayhealth.com) Sanjay Gupta, MD, Everyday Health: I’ve reported a number of times for Everyday Health now on the newest front in the battle against cancer called immunotherapy. This is a very exciting new tool in fighting this disease. We are still just learning how to use it, but it...

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(BBC)The UK's first double hand transplant operation has taken place at Leeds General Infirmary and the patient says his new hands look "tremendous". Chris King, from Doncaster, lost both his hands, apart from the thumbs, in an accident involving a metal pressing machine at work...

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(cosmopolitan.com) It's no secret that in vitro fertilization — a procedure that seriously messes with your sex hormones to increase the odds of implantation when embryos are manually inserted into your uterus — can be a godsend for women who are struggling to conceive. But the...

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Verywell- In alternative medicine, proper digestive function is considered essential for optimal health. Not only do digestive problems result in gas, bloating, constipation, irritable bowel, diarrhea, and heartburn, but they can lead to dysfunction in the intestinal lining, called intestinal...

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Geek- You go in to your eye doctor for your yearly exam. While you’re getting the air puffed into your eye and the light shined into the back of your brain, the doctor notices something. The retina is a little off. It’s not macular degeneration or general eye deterioration. She detects...

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EVERYDAYHEALTH - By Dennis Thompson, Jr. Your heart relies on electrical impulses to keep it beating at a steady pace. Problems with this electrical system can cause abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias. The defective impulses may cause the heart to beat too slowly or too fast, or to beat in...

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BBC- Do dogs, whales, horses and other animals intend to end their lives? In 1845 a curious story appeared in the Illustrated London News. A black dog, described as "fine, handsome and valuable" was reported to "throw himself into the water" in an attempted suicide. His...

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Posted by Allison Hydzik-Pittsburgh: "Researchers have uncovered a major reason why proteins that are the hallmark of Parkinson’s disease are toxic to neurons in the brain. The discovery could be key to finding a way to slow or halt the disease. “It’s really exciting that...

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Posted by Shelly Leachman-UCSB "Imagine if we sent up a visible signal that could eventually be seen across the entire universe. Imagine if another civilization did the same. The technology now exists to enable exactly that scenario, according to UC Santa Barbara physics professor Philip...

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"By the Alzheimer’s Association, Special to Everyday Health Alzheimer’s disease is more than memory loss — it can come with a variety of warning signs and symptoms. If you notice any of these 10 warning signs of Alzheimer’s in yourself or someone you know,...

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"A combination of two compounds found in red grapes and oranges could be used to improve the health of people with diabetes, and reduce cases of obesity and heart disease. The find has been made by University of Warwick researchers who now hope that their discovery will be developed to...

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"New research gets scientists closer to learning to “read” the genome, a key goal of modern biology. The results, published in eLife, show that the DNA content of our genomes resembles a complex biological language, composed of coding regions and regulatory regions. Although...

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A sloth’s desire to cling to trees, other sloths, and people might seem adorable, but it’s actually the only way they can survive infancy. Sam Trull, the co-founder of The Sloth Institute Costa Rica, is deeply aware of this fact. Since 2013, she’s been in Costa Rica doing...

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A biotech company in the U.S. has been granted ethical permission by an Institutional Review Board in the U.S. and India to use 20 brain-dead patients for what is sure to be a highly controversial study: From next year, they plan to stimulate their nervous systems in order to restart the brains....