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Where’s Pain in the Brain? Scans Provide Clues

Doctors usually have to rely on patients to tell them when “it hurts,” but a new study suggests brain scans could provide a way to objectively measure pain. ...
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Too Much Coffee May Hurt Pregnancy Chances with IVF

Drinking large amounts of coffee may hurt a woman’s chances of becoming pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF), a new study from Denmark suggests. In the study, woman ...
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Hypersex to Hoarding: 7 New Psychological Disorders

1. Hoarding disorder Reality TV has made a spectacle of hoarders, but the science behind this disorder is emerging. Hoarding has been associated with both obsessive–compulsive personality disorder ...
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Alzheimer’s Often Misdiagnosed Until Later On

Of the people who develop Alzheimer’s disease before the age of 60 but do not yet display any memory problems, more than half may be misdiagnosed with other ...
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Pacemaker Device Can Cure Bowel Control Problems

A pacemaker-like device may help those who suffer from bowel incontinence, or loss of bowel control, researchers say. The first person in the United States to receive the ...
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Doctors Urge WHO to Reconsider Breast-Feeding Recommendations

Some health experts are questioning current recommendations in the United Kingdom that babies be exclusively breast-fed for the first six months of life. They say it may be ...
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Is There an Age Limit on Getting Obesity Surgery?

“The Healthy Geezer” answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column. Question: I’m 69 years old and I’m considering surgery for obesity. Am I too old ...
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TV Reporter who Garbled Speech Suffered Migraine, Not Stroke

Serene Branson, the Los Angeles TV reporter whose garbled speech during a live broadcast at the Grammys on Sunday led many to believe she had suffered a stroke, ...
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Cancer Gene Mutation

DESCRIPTION. DICER syndrome, sometimes referred to as multiplicative carcinogenesis, is an autosomal dominant disorder that increases the possibility of a wide range of noncancerous cancers, such as skin ...
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6 Foods That Are Good for Your Brain

Walnuts They even look like little brains, so maybe that’s Mother Nature’s way of telling us what walnuts are good for. Indeed, a 2009 study in the Journal ...
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