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Why Weight-Loss Surgery Mysteriously Reverses Diabetes in Some Patients

Diabetic patients who undergo weight-loss surgery often see their diabetes suddenly disappear, before they’ve even lost much weight. Now researchers are coming closer to finding out the reason ...
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Deadliest Skin Cancer Hides in Plain Sight, Study Finds

More people survive melanoma now than in generations past, but the death rate of one type of melanoma has not budged for the past 30 years, a new ...
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Daily Aspirin Linked to Reduced Cancer Risk

Taking aspirin once a day may help prevent cancer, and perhaps even in some cases treat it, a growing body of research suggests. A new study finds that ...
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Four Cups of Coffee a Day Slash Diabetes Risk in Half

Drinking four cups of coffee every day can decrease a woman’s risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by more than half, according to a new study. And the ...
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Some Coffee a Day Helps Keep Strokes Away

Downing at least a cup of coffee a day seems to decrease the risk of stroke, according to a new Swedish study. The 10-year study found that women ...
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Genes Point to Risk for Silent Killer: Aortic Aneurysms

Scientists have identified genetic risk factors for suffering a thoracic aortic aneurysm — a condition in which the aorta, the largest blood vessel of the body that emerges ...
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OCD Patients May Benefit From Brain Surgery

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are so unresponsive to treatments that patients turn to brain surgery to help alleviate their symptoms. One surgery, deep ...
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Experts Yo-Yo on Health Benefits of Yo-Yo Diet

Losing weight and gaining it right back again is better for your health than remaining obese, according to a new study in mice. The findings suggest so-called yo-yo ...
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Nitric Oxide Doesn’t Help Sickle-Cell Disease Patients

Nitric oxide does not relieve pain in patients with sickle-cell disease, a new study finds. Patients in the study treated with nitric oxide for pain fared no better ...
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New Fetal Genome Sequencing Could Spot Disorders

In a development scientists are calling a “tour de force,” researchers have reconstructed the genome of a fetus using DNA samples from the parents. Because their technique did ...
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