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Blood reveals death risk

Why die for some people 75 years and others are 100 years old? The answer may lie in the view of an international team of researchers in the blood. The scientists have identified 14 so-called biomarkers, with which the probability can be calculate to die within the next five or ten years, as they report […]

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Uses China were still organs from executed?

Two international medical journals have decided to publications on organ transplant to increase ion in China. As several expert reports in the media, withdrew the Magazine “Transplantation” and “Plos One”, a total of 15 studies, relating presumably to the use of organs of executed prisoners. Background of the research, a team of researchers from the […]

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Charité researchers: Paracetamol in pregnancy safe

Gonna take the end of mothers in the last trimester of pregnancy, Paracetamol, was that unlike many other pain medications, no adverse effect on the circulatory system of your unborn child. The investigation of the Embryotox Institute at the Charité hospital in Berlin showed. In the case of unborn children, the circulation of the blood […]

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The surgeon, the walls tear

Anyone who calls this Thursday, the Google home page, among other things, in the UK, Canada and Australia, the looks instead of the usual company logo, the drawing of a serious-looking woman in scrubs. Behind her, all the hand-operation is to recognise Cutlery. With this Doodle, the group celebrates Blake Louisa Aldrich. Today 154 years […]

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Strength training relieves claudication

Because people with peripheral arterial disease after short Walks, often due to a cramp-like pain pause is called the disease, claudication. A new study now confirms that strength training relieves the discomfort and the patient can walk longer distances without pain. The sports physiologist Dr Belinda Parmenter of the University of New South Wales had […]

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Smart clothing neutralizes odor

Heat, stressful situations or intense Training: Unpleasant perspiration odour can be embarrassing. Portuguese researchers want to remedy the situation, by modifying the substance of cotton so that it sets when in contact with sweat a Citrus Aroma. In the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces they reported their first success. Scientists around the world are […]