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(HealthDay News) — A minimally invasive therapy that uses beads soaked with anti-cancer agents has been successful at halting liver tumors, according to new studies.

Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) attacks liver tumors on two fronts. Microspheres, or beads, combined with cancer-killing chemotherapeutic agents are delivered to the blood vessel feeding the tumor. While the chemo attacks the [...]

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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Drinking coffee may do more than just keep you awake. A new study suggests an intriguing potential link to mental health later in life, as well.

A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee consumption in a group of 1,409 middle-age men and women for an average of 21 years. During that time, [...]

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By LIZ SZABO
All God’s children got rhythm — and at a much earlier age than doctors ever suspected, a small study shows.

Studying children’s sense of musical timing has long been challenging. The babies in the study couldn’t even grab their toes, let alone tap them.
Yet brain scans show that these 2- and 3-day-olds could perceive [...]

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Study Suggests Men, Women React Differently When Facing Food Temptation
By LAUREN COX
A study that showed men and women’s brains work differently when they’re tempted with food has experts debating the reasons behind the gender gap in obesity rates.

Doctors asked 23 men and women of healthy weight to go on a three-day fast and then tempted [...]

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By LiveScience Staff
Star Trek transporter room - The U.S. Air Force recently took a look into teleportation.
teleportation experimental set-up

Overview of experimental setup for recent teleportation achievement. Credit: JQI/University of Maryland
Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the “Star Trek” feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people [...]

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People who are more laid back are less likely to develop dementia in old age, a study has suggested.

Research published in the journal Neurology asked 500 healthy elderly people to fill out questionnaires about their personalities.
Those who were calm and relaxed had a 50% lower risk of developing dementia during the six years of the [...]

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children in the United States increasingly are developing serious head and neck infections with a drug-resistant type of “superbug” bacteria called MRSA, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

They said rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, are rising in children, and called on doctors to be more judicious in prescribing antibiotics.
“There is a [...]

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By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two nonsurgical procedures relieve many symptoms of acid reflux disease including heartburn in people who are not helped by the medications typically used to treat it, U.S. researchers said on Friday.

In this chronic condition, also called gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, stomach acid backs up into the esophagus, irritating its [...]

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