There is an increasing need to prevent obesity because of the consequences for mental as well as physical health, new
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Your Apple Watch can now record your ECG – but what does that mean and can you trust it?
Apple’s new, fourth-generation watch has an electrical heart rate sensor. This can record your electrocardiogram or ECG, which Apple says:
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Coming soon, computers that will read your heart tests
Tapping into the technology behind facial recognition programs and self-driving cars, researchers in a new study have taught computers key
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After a century, insulin is still expensive – could DIYers change that?
Soon after Federick Banting discovered that insulin could be used to treat diabetes in 1921, he sold the patent to
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Researchers discover critical differences in the clots that cause a stroke
There are two main treatments for stroke caused by a clot in a blood vessel in the brain. One treatment,
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Finding that links ALS/ataxia to cellular stress opens new approaches for treatment
Few treatments exist for neurodegenerative diseases that progressively rob a person’s ability to move and think, yet the results of
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Team reveals that human genome could contain up to 20 percent fewer genes
A new study led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) reveals that up to 20 percent of genes
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New study contradicts notion that electronic health records are driving doctors to quit
Prominent journalists including the late Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Krauthammer, have written that doctors are leaving the practice of medicine because
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Signaling cascade that repairs damaged nerve cells characterized
Through a study of roundworm nerve cells with severed axons, researchers at Nagoya University showed that a signaling cascade that
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Researchers report mechanism that affects multiplication of dengue virus lineage
A lineage of type 1 dengue virus found in Brazil is able to prevail over another, even though it it
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