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Stay Active, Stay YoungUsing DNA information from white blood cells as markers of biological age, | Cutting Caffeine to Control DiabetesDaily consumption of caffeine increases blood-sugar levels in people with Type 2 diabetes and may undermine patients' efforts to control the disease, according to a study from Duke University Medical Center. Using a tiny glucose (sugar) monitor embedded under the abdominal skin, researchers were able to track the real-time impact of caffeine intake on glucose levels. The study, published | Who's Afraid of the Grim ReaperCall it counterintuitive, but a new study published in Psychological Science has found that thoughts of death can make people happier, not sadder. In a series of experiments involving 432 volunteers, people asked to think about their death were much more likely to choose uplifting words like "joy" in word tests than those asked to think about (other) unpleasant events, such as a trip to the | Sibling Relationships and Adult DepressionThe quality of relationships with siblings during childhood may be a predictor of depression later in life, according to researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "It appears there is a strong connection between closeness to at least one sibling during childhood and having a lower risk of depression in adulthood," said lead author Dr Robert Waldinger, director of the adult-development | Ease Your Pain Save Your BrainOver-the-counter pain relievers may help ward off Parkinson's disease. In a UCLA study of 579 people, 55 per cent of those who rarely or never took non-aspirin NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) got the disease, compared to 37 per cent of those who took two or more pills every week for a month or more."NSAIDs keep inflammatory agents from nibbling away at brain cells," says | Contagious Obesity?It seems you can "catch" obesity the way you do a cold. When thin animals are infected with adenovirus-36 (pictured, right), most get fat without eating more. The virus has the same effect in people, says Dr Richard Atkinson, director of the Obetech Obesity Research Center in Richmond, Virginia, in the US. | Less is More for Back PainCostly therapies may do little to alleviate acute back pain. A University of Sydney study has found that paracetamol and gentle exercise is the best way to speed up recovery from short-term lower-back pain.The study, published in British medical journal The Lancet, followed 240 patients and tested if adding a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and spinal manipulative therapy | Laser Beams Blow Up Cancer CellsMinuscule gold "nanorods" triggered by targeted lasers could be the next weapon in the fight against cancer. Purdue University researchers have used the gold rods - which are roughly 200 times smaller than a red blood cell - to blast holes in tumour cells and trigger their self-destruction.Small tumours have a strong craving for folic acid and, by attaching the gold | Long-Term Relief of Uterine Fibroid SymptomsA noninvasive outpatient treatment for uterine fibroid tumours provides sustained relief of symptoms, according to a Mayo Clinic-led study. The study found that, with magnetic-resonance-imaging-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS), the more completely these common, non-cancerous growths are destroyed, the more durable is the symptom relief. Usually, treatment of uterine | Sun May Save SightAustralian researchers believe that sunshine may prevent children from becoming short-sighted. A comparison of children of Chinese origin living in Singapore and Sydney found the rate of myopia in the Singaporeans was ten times higher. The key difference was that the Sydney kids spent almost four times longer outdoors. Researchers say sunlight is the key - it increases dopamine levels |
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