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Experts: online human breast milk comes with serious health risks

British experts have recently warned the growing online craze among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers for buying and drinking human breast milk poses serious health...

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Top 11 tech innovations that could change medicine

Huge changes in medicine and healthcare fueled by technology are heading our way.   These trends have a variety of stakeholders: patients, medical professionals, researchers, medical students, and...

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Airing – world’s first hoseless, maskless, cordless CPAP device

Your whole day can be ruined by missing out on a good night’s sleep. Your mood can be affected, you can find it hard to focus, and it can be nearly impossible to shake the sleepy feeling.   For those...

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First 3D heart printed using multiple imaging techniques

Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital congenital heart experts have successfully integrated two common imaging techniques to produce a three-dimensional anatomic model of a patient’s heart....

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Amazing connection between gut bacteria and cognitive functioning

Oregon State University researchers have discovered a new link between cognitive functioning and gut bacteria.  In recent years the science involving bacteria in the gut and its link to health and...

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Are fish oil pills a $1.2 billion industry built on empty promises?

The Web site of the National Institutes of Health has some advice for anyone wondering about whether to take a fish oil pill to improve your health.  Yes. And no.   One page on the Web site endorses...

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Feeling 7 years younger and $10,000 richer by living near a lot of trees?

A new study suggests that you should probably count the number of trees on the block, the next time you are hunting for a house or apartment.   The study found that living on a street with 10 more...

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How your smartphone may be able to detect if you are depressed

A small new study finds that depression can be predicted just from smartphone data.   Just by tracking where people go and how much they use their smartphone, researchers were able to predict...

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Can old age be reversed by infusing blood from the young?

August 2008, Tony Wyss-Coray waited for his lab’s weekly meeting to begin at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, California. Wyss-Coray, a professor of neurology at Stanford University, was...

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Leading scientists reveal secrets for reaching the age 100

Leukocyte (white blood cell) telomere length in study participants up to 115 years of age. Statistical regression lines belonging to these groups are indicated by the same color as the data. (credit:...

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Trees improve your health, and researchers develop tool to show exactly where...

Pollution levels decrease and the health of people improves when cities plant trees. Studies show that America’s trees save thousands of lives a year, mainly by preventing breathing-related problems...

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New discovery of vessels linking the brain to the immune system

New research has found that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist. The finding means the textbooks will have to be rewritten.   Discovery of...

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IBM’s Watson is finally getting closer to becoming your doctor

IBM’s Watson can beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, tell you about your city, and dream up recipes for delectable delicacies. Watson is now doing something even more important than all previous...

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Making connections at work matters in the ‘age of loneliness’

We all would like to avoid that feeling of loneliness. Research shows it’s terrible for our health; it diminishes cognitive performance and the immune system, increases the risk of heart disease and...

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MoveMor Lower Body Trainer is the first-ever multi-directional resistance system

MoveMor™ Lower Body Trainer is the first-ever multi-directional resistance system that provides gentle strengthening of hips, knees, ankles and feet for better physical function and falls reduction....

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The smart bathroom of the future

The bathroom of the future is going to make your electric toothbrush look decidedly low-tech.  A futurologist has predicted that in less than 25 years smart mirrors could perform health checks, while...

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XPrize’s Peter Diamandis and Google Venture’s Bill Maris discuss the future...

Both Google Ventures’ Bill Maris and XPrize head Peter Diamandis discussed a gamut of subjects, including life extension research, sentient robots, and self-driving cars versus those that can fly at...

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11 amazing pairs of futuristic shoes

Fashion designers are starting to use all kinds of technology in their garments.  Scientific progress has always been an important part of shoe design — the invention of vulcanized rubber by Charles...

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The future of the quantified brain

For years it was believed the brain was an elusive black box which we simply didn’t understand. And it’s true, scientific knowledge of the brain has been hard won. But in recent years, we have actually...

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The 12 most dangerous superbugs, ranked by the WHO

  The World Health Organization says we need to step up the fight against a dozen bacteria that are growing resistant to all the antibiotics we have to treat them. One of the scariest features of the...

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