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• Serious risks of vascular disease with two-arm blood pressure difference
• What was B.F. Skinner really like? A new study parses his traits
• Protein critical for tissue regeneration discovered
• Low-calorie diet may be harmful for bowel disease patients
• Pain relievers could be spiking your blood pressure
• Test to improve peanut allergy diagnosis
• Nanotherapy: Treating deadly brain tumors by delivering big radiation with tiny tools
• Bisphenol A (BPA) could affect reproductive capabilities, cause infection of the uterus
• Feeding your baby on demand 'may contribute to higher IQ'
• The cause and effect of migraines
• Air emissions near fracking sites may pose health risk, study shows; sites contain hydrocarbons including benzene
• Exercise can lead to female orgasm, sexual pleasure

Serious risks of vascular disease with two-arm blood pressure difference Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:57 PM PDT The findings of the study support that there is a link between a difference in blood pressure between arms and vascular disease and mortality -- and further emphasizes the need for two-arm blood pressure checks to become the norm.

What was B.F. Skinner really like? A new study parses his traits Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:14 PM PDT Besides Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner was the most famous and perhaps the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. But who was Skinner? Psychologists have now use source materials and standard measures of personality traits to describe him and compare him with other eminent scientists. Their study reveals a complex man -- but nothing like the monster his detractors called him.

Protein critical for tissue regeneration discovered Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:13 PM PDT Researchers have shown that a protein found in humans stops regeneration when disabled in planaria, providing a potential strategy for preventing the growth of cancer cells.

Low-calorie diet may be harmful for bowel disease patients Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:20 PM PDT In a surprising result, researchers looking at the effects of diet on bowel disease found that mice on a calorie-restricted diet were more likely to die after being infected with an inflammation-causing bacterial pathogen in the colon.

Pain relievers could be spiking your blood pressure Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:21 AM PDT Both doctors and patients should be aware that many common over-the-counter and prescription medications can be the underlying cause of hypertension, one researcher says. He warns that while many of the chemicals in these drugs can raise blood pressure, both patients and doctors remain dangerously uninformed.

Test to improve peanut allergy diagnosis Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:21 AM PDT Researchers have identified a new way to accurately test for peanut allergy.

Nanotherapy: Treating deadly brain tumors by delivering big radiation with tiny tools Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:57 AM PDT For the past 40 years, radiation has been used to treat deadly brain tumors. But beams of radiation still must pass through healthy brain tissue to reach the tumor, and large amounts cause serious side effects. Medical researchers can now deliver nanoparticle radiation directly to the tumor and keep it there, dosing the tumor itself with much higher levels of radiation but sparing a much greater area of brain tissue.

Bisphenol A (BPA) could affect reproductive capabilities, cause infection of the uterus Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PDT Researchers have found evidence that, in addition to affecting the heart, brain and nervous system, bisphenol A (BPA), could affect a mammal's ability to reproduce by altering the structure of the uterus in ways that can progress to a potentially fatal infection.

Feeding your baby on demand 'may contribute to higher IQ' Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:51 AM PDT A new study suggests that babies who are breast-fed or bottle-fed to a schedule do not perform academically as well at school as their demand-fed peers. The finding is based on the results of IQ tests and school-based SATs tests carried out between the ages of five and 14, which show that demand-feeding was associated with higher IQ scores. The IQ scores of eight-year-old children who had been demand-fed as babies were between four and five points higher than the scores of schedule-fed children, says the new study.

The cause and effect of migraines Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:45 AM PDT A migraine is the most common type of headache that propels patients to seek care from their doctors. Roughly 30 million Americans suffer from migraine headaches, with women affected almost three times more often than men, according to statistics.

Air emissions near fracking sites may pose health risk, study shows; sites contain hydrocarbons including benzene Posted: 19 Mar 2012 06:50 AM PDT In a new study, researchers have shown that air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking may contribute to acute and chronic health problems for those living near natural gas drilling sites.

Exercise can lead to female orgasm, sexual pleasure Posted: 19 Mar 2012 06:50 AM PDT Findings from a first-of-its-kind study confirm anecdotal evidence that exercise -- absent sex or fantasies -- can lead to female orgasm. "These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the bodily processes underlying women's experiences of orgasm," said a researcher involved in the study.

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