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    World A Woman Had Stomach Pains For 10 Years. The Reason Why Was 1 Foot Long – ScienceAlert

    After a Chinese woman complained about stomach pains for more than 10 years, doctors performed surgery and found the cause of her pain was a foot-long parasitic worm inside of her intestines, Fox News reported. Before her surgery, the 41-year-old woman had gone to multiple doctors for her...
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    General Health That Weird Link Between Sense of Smell And Death Risk Continues to Defy Explanation – ScienceAlert

    There’s a strange link between how well we can smell and our risk of death – but despite ongoing efforts, and a lot of overblown media coverage, researchers still can’t figure it out. There are few concepts we humans approach less rationally than death and statistics, and this lately … Read...
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    General Health Having This One Particular Blood Type Can Help Protect You From Severe Malaria – ScienceAlert

    Nearly half the world’s population is at risk of malaria, one of the most deadly diseases known to humankind. Each year it claims over 400,000 lives, most of whom are children younger than age five. While it’s possible to vaccinate against malaria, virtually all of these cases are in the...
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    General Health Here’s Scientific Evidence Chocolate Can Boost Your Brain Power – ScienceAlert

    Italian scientists have found evidence that a daily dose of cocoa acts as a dietary supplement to counteract different types of cognitive decline. Back in 2017, the team found that regularly eating cocoa was linked to improvements in working memory and visual information processing and cocoa...
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    General Health First-of-Its-Kind HIV Therapy Kicks The Virus Out of Hiding, And Then Kills It – ScienceAlert

    HIV is a sneaky virus. It can hide in the immune cells of people taking daily antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs, waiting until they stop the therapy to come back with a vengeance. This forces them to continue ART — and continue dealing with its many side effects — for their entire lives. But...
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    General Health Growing Up Poor Not Only Affects Your Health, It Changes as Many as 1 in 13 Genes – ScienceAlert

    We all love a good rags to riches story, but the truth is that poverty never really leaves you. Not only does it have a lasting effect on your health and mental well-being, growing up poor changes you at a genetic level. A new study demonstrates the extent of … Read more via ScienceAlert...
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    Sexual Health Oral Sex Appears to Have an Intriguing Link to Miscarriage Risk – ScienceAlert

    Oral sex has been linked with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage, according to a new study conducted in the Netherlands. Recurrent miscarriage, in which a woman experiences three or more pregnancy losses prior to the 20th week of gestation, affects about 1 percent of women, although some...
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    General Health There’s Evidence Coffee Acts on Your Brain Like Cannabis, But in Reverse – ScienceAlert

    Coffee, the world’s most common recreational drug, affects our metabolism far more deeply than we realised, according to a recent study. The results describe a number of knock-on effects that impact upon several important body systems, suggesting our daily coffee habit might have a complex range...
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    General Health Horrifying Case Study Shows Why You Need to Lay Off Cotton Buds For Ear Cleaning – ScienceAlert

    Just in case you needed yet another reason to stop cleaning your ears with cotton buds (aka Q-Tips), one man’s run-in with a severe and potentially life-threatening infection in his skull may give you pause. In a newly published case report, doctors detail how an otherwise healthy 31-year-old...
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    World This New ‘Trojan Horse’ Drug Successfully Treated 6 Types of Cancer Tumor – ScienceAlert

    A toxic antibody is the latest weapon to show promise as a broad spectrum treatment for multiple forms of advanced cancer.... Read more via ScienceAlert – http://bit.ly/2tiwdrv Get more World News
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    General Health Researchers Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading – ScienceAlert

    Researchers have been able to coax human breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells in a new proof-of-concept study in mice. To achieve this feat, the team exploited a weird pathway that metastasising cancer cells have; their results are just a first step, but it’s a truly promising approach. …...
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    World Here’s Why Canada’s Legalisation of Weed Is Also a Huge Win For Scientists – ScienceAlert

    Canada legalized cannabis for recreational use today, and stoners across the country are rejoicing at the move, which opens up the sale of cured marijuana and derivatives, such as oils, in commercial shops...... Read more via ScienceAlert – https://ift.tt/2yLBGJL Get more World News
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    World Here’s The Groundbreaking Cancer Research That Just Won The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine – ScienceAlert News

    The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to cancer researchers … Read more via ScienceAlert News – https://ift.tt/2zI11G4 Get more World News
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