Monday, February 27, 2012

health news



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Depression Risk Lower In Heart Patients Who Take Statins
Written by Catharine Paddock PhD
Heart disease patients who took statins, the drugs prescribed for lowering cholesterol, were significantly less likely to develop depression than counterparts who did not take the drugs, according to a new study led by Dr... [read article]

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Egg Cells Produced From Stem Cells Isolated From Human Ovaries
Written by Catharine Paddock PhD
US researchers have managed to isolate stem cells from the ovaries of reproductive age women and used them to make egg cells that appear to behave normally. The discovery, published online in Nature Medicine at the... [read article]

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With A Newly Developed Math Equation, New Insights Could Come On Cell Development And Drug Therapies
Neither births nor deaths stop the flocking of organisms. They just keep moving, says theoretical physicist John J. Toner of the University of Oregon. The notion, he says, has implications in biology and eventually could... [read article]

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