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Ever wonder what’s going through teenagers’ heads as they stare at their phones? A group of researchers at UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center decided to find out. They scanned the brains of teens as they used a social media network similar to Instagram.
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Mats Brännström, MD, PhD, was beyond skeptical when a patient undergoing a hysterectomy for cervical cancer in 1998 asked him for a uterus transplant to restore her fertility.
Mats Brännström (right) and colleagues have conducted a clinical uterus transplantation trial, which produced the first successful live birth after uterus transplant.
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There is no fail-safe way to avoid catching the colds, flu and other illnesses that lurk all around us, but we can reduce the odds.
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HEALTHbeat Harvard Medical School
Mar 10, 2017
You may not love the scent of your coworker’s hand cream, or the perfume wafting across the aisle on the train. But for some people, fragrances like those can trigger a range of very real symptoms, according to a new Australian study, from migraines to difficulties with breathing.
B. Smith doesn’t know the day, or the month or the year.
Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease has robbed the former restaurateur, model, author and TV host of such luxuries.
But her devastating 2013 diagnosis has created a national platform to address the disease that plagues an estimated 5.5 million Americans.
The aging brain is a shrinking brain, and a shrinking brain is, generally speaking, a brain whose performance and reaction time are declining: That is a harsh reality of growing older.
Start piling on the red, yellow, orange, and dark-green fruits and veggies. According to a new 25-year Harvard study on more than 100,000 patients, eating vibrant, nutrient-packed produce will cut almost in half (40%) your chances of developing macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss that robs people of the ability to read, drive, or even recognize faces—much less dresses—as they age.
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