Stanford Study Shows Stealthy Leads To Healthy In Effort To Improve Diet

How do you get college students to eat better? A new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that a “stealth” strategy of raising the students’ awareness of environmental and social issues related to food can persuade them to eat more veggies and less ice cream. The study will be published in the [...]

Fewer Risks, Lower Costs And Healthier Mothers And Babies

Cesarean sections have reached the highest rate ever in the United States nearly one in three births and critics say physicians perform them too often, needlessly exposing mothers and babies to major-surgery risks…
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Body Builders The Worms That Point The Way To Understanding Tissue Regeneration

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regenerate its own body parts after amputation including a whole head and brain. Their research into the Planarian worm is another piece in the scientific jigsaw that could one day make the regeneration of old or damaged human organs [...]

Study Finds Changes In Fetal Epigenetics Throughout Pregnancy; May Help In Diagnosis And Prevention Of Complications

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that epigenetic marks on human placentas change from the first trimester of pregnancy to the third, a discovery that may allow clinicians to prevent complications in pregnancy. The finding marks a dramatic departure from the prevailing opinion that epigenetic programming is permanently established 12 weeks after [...]

Scientists Create Stem Cells From Eggs Of Aging Mice

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have created stem cells from the eggs of aging mice that could be used for reproductive purposes and regenerative medicine. The study, published in April issue of Aging Cell, found that even though the eggs from older females were slightly less efficient at making stem cells than those from [...]

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