Gene variant increases heart disease risk, even when cholesterol is normal
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... year. Most are variants of existingviruses and so pose no special problems. But every few decades, a radicallydifferent virus comes along, triggering a pandemic that can kill millions acrossthe globe; the last two were in 1957 and 1968. These killer strains are thoughtto come from either pigs or poultry....Magnet therapy: what's the attraction?
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...thy nutrition habits, but calorie-ladenfestivities pose a special challenge to the 16 million Americans who havediabetes. "The key to successfully navigating the holiday season," saysPhilip Barnett, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Comprehensive DiabetesOutpatient Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, "is t...PAHO Working With Affected Communities In Central America
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...a numberof parallel but weaker beams. This doesn't pose a problem for applications that don't require much power, such as laserprinters or supermarket scanners, but it limits their use in surgery, where higher power and precision are critical. Thenew laser produces a unified beam no wider than a grain of ...