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Gestational Diabetes Risk Reduced With Mediterranean Diet
A simple Mediterranean-style diet in pregnancy does not reduce the overall risk of adverse maternal and offspring complications, but has the potential to reduce weight gain in pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes.
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New Study SHINEs a Light on Blood Sugar Management Post-stroke
Hyperglycemia, or high levels of glucose, is common in patients with acute ischemic stroke. A new study has weighed in on whether aggressive or standard glucose management is best for stroke patients.
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Baby's Immune System May Be Boosted by Keeping Livestock at Home
Getting up close – and a little dirty – with farm animals just might help us fend off illness, say researchers who’ve further demonstrated the benefits of early exposure to a wide variety of environmental bacteria.
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Electron Relationships in Alzheimer’s Protein Found to Be “Outside the Common Sense of Organic Chemistry”
The chemical interactions that give proteins their shape may be weaker and more numerous than previously recognized. These weak connections provide a new way for researchers to understand proteins that cause disease and help them gain insights into the fundamentals of chemistry.
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First Assessment of Blood Abnormalities in Antarctic Penguin Colony
Scientists have completed the first study of immune and genetic stability among a colony of penguins living in a remote corner of southern Antarctica.
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Most Microbes Are Inside an Apple - Good Luck Washing Them Off!
Organic apples harbor a more diverse and balanced bacterial community – which could make them healthier and tastier than conventional apples, as well as better for the environment.
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Looking at "Junk" DNA for Insights Into ASD and Stroke
A new study suggests that by analyzing noncoding mutations, researchers may be able to better understand not only ASD but a variety of conditions, ranging from neurological disorders to heart disease.
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Reach Out and Touch Someone
A research team has developed a way for the "LUKE Arm" (so named after the robotic hand that Luke Skywalker got in "The Empire Strikes Back") to mimic the way a human hand feels objects by sending the appropriate signals to the brain.
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Effective Solution to "De-skunking"
Researchers have identified a compound from fungi that safely and effectively neutralizes skunk spray odor and is not an irritant like some existing formulas.
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Bigger Waistline May Link to Thinner Brain in Old Age
Having a bigger waistline and a high body mass index (BMI) in your 60s may be linked with greater signs of brain aging years later, according to a new study. The research suggests that these factors may accelerate brain aging by at least a decade.
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