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  Food Chemists Slice Up Healthier Pizza

  Food chemists have shown that making a pizza crust with whole wheat flour and cooking it longer releases more antioxidants. These chronic disease-fighting compounds increased by 82 percent when baked ... > more
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  Geographers Calculate Atmospheric Effects On Humans

  A University of Miami geography professor and his colleagues have crafted a Heat Stress Index that will aim to analyze the daily relative effects of weather on human health. The index and its ... > more
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  Infectious Disease Specialists Design New Rapid Flu Test

  New flu tests can diagnose the flu in as little as 30 minutes, to cut down on needless antibiotic use, which can build up resistance and make some infections untreatable by current ... > more
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  Doppler-based Stethoscope Ignores Outside Sounds

  A new ultrasound stethoscope ignores outside noise, allowing medics to hear life-saving sounds inside the body. Developed by electrical engineers, the device exploits the Doppler effect as it sends ... > more
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  Neurologists Use New Brain Scanning Device To Better Control Seizures

  Doctors are now using a new kind of brain scan called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures brain activity in real time. In some cases, MEG can pinpoint the source of an epileptic seizure much ... > more
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  Linguists Work With Medical Students To Help Them Relate To Spanish-speaking Patients

  A unique program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is helping health care professionals understand and treat patients better by teaching them how to communicate with patients who ... > more
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  Chemists Develop New Tool For Treating Rosacea

  Antibiotics have been the traditional treatment for the skin disorder rosacea, but patients often develop antibiotic resistance to the drugs. A drug recently approved by the FDA, Oracea, contains a ... > more
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  Biomedical Scientists Develop Computerized Stethoscope To Analyze Heart Murmurs

  Scientists have developed a new tool that may eliminate unnecessary visits to a specialist by allowing doctors to examine and assess heart murmurs. The Zargis Acoustic Cardioscan first amplifies and ... > more
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  Sea Urchins' Genetics Add To Knowledge Of Cancer, Alzheimer's And Infertility

  Researchers are using the sea urchins to study and understand diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy. Although they are invertebrates, the creatures ... > more
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  Computerized Defibrillator Guides Untrained Users

  Human factors engineers have developed a CPR machine that allows people without CPR training to save the lives of those who are suffering from cardiac arrest. It monitors, and gives feedback about, ... > more

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