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New hope for hepatitis C, an often hidden disease
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23 - 01 - 2011
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20 - 01 - 2011
Longer-lasting options to treat drug addiction
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23 - 10 - 2010
More blood pressure worry: It's linked to dementia
If the cardiologist s warnings don t scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia. In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people s brains to show hypertension fuels a (...)

29 - 01 - 2010
Don't bank on weekend to make up for sleep loss
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15 - 01 - 2010
Scientists find rare gene behind short sleepers
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14 - 08 - 2009
Researchers identify cells that say 'scratch me'
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07 - 08 - 2009
Warm hands lead to warm hearts, sneaky study shows
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31 - 10 - 2008
Brain's reaction to yummy food may predict weight
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17 - 10 - 2008
Sci and Tech Scene : The nose knows: Sense of smell sharpens when something bad happens
Know how a whiff of certain odors can take you back in time, either to a great memory or bad one? It turns out emotion plays an even bigger role with the nose, and that your sense of smell actually can sharpen when something bad (...)

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