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Cosmetic procedure readies beach bodies

Cosmetic procedure readies beach bodies

Each year, 45 million Americans — many of them women — are consumed with thoughts of muffin tops, love handles and other parts of their bodies, especially as the season for beach and bathing suits looms. Figures from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons show that $11 billion was spent on cosmetic procedures in 2012, accounting for 1.6 million procedures.

For those seeking to battle their…

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Researchers create artificial link between unrelated memories

Researchers create artificial link between unrelated memories

The ability to learn associations between events is critical for survival, but it has not been clear how different pieces of information stored in memory may be linked together by populations of neurons. In a study published April 2nd in Cell Reports, synchronous activation of distinct neuronal ensembles caused mice to artificially associate the memory of a foot shock with the unrelated memory…

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Memories May Not Live in Neurons’ Synapses The finding could mean recollections are more enduring than expected and disrupt plans for PTSD treatments.

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Scientists have designed boots that let you walk using 7% less energy

Scientists have designed boots that let you walk using 7% less energy

The exoskeleton is completely unpowered (wires are for sensors that measure muscle activity and exoskeleton torque). Image: Stephen Thrift

Scientists have built a light-weight wearable boot-like exoskeleton which reduces the energy needed for walking.

Researchers say the exoskeleton gives a 7% gain without chemical or electrical energy.

According to research published in the journal Nature, the…

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New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function Of the mice that received the treatment, 75 percent got their memory functions back. Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients.

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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system In the first evidence of a natural intervention triggering stem cell-based regeneration of an organ or system, a study in the June 5 issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Stem Cell shows that cycles of prolonged fasting not only protect against immune system damage -- a major side effect of chemotherapy -- but also induce immune system regeneration, shifting stem cells from a dormant state to a state of self-renewal.

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Europe's first non-beating heart transplant

Europe’s first non-beating heart transplant

Surgeons in Cambridgeshire have performed the first heart transplant in Europe using a non-beating heart.

Huseyin Ulucan’s progress a few weeks after the transplant is “remarkable”, the medical team at Papworth say (http://emp.bbc.co.uk/emp/embed/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplaylists.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fhealth-32067668A%2Fplaylist.sxml&title=Huseyin%20Ulucan's%20progress%20a%20few%20weeks%…

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Paramedic shares heart-breaking photo of ER doctor grieving after losing 19-year-old patient

Paramedic shares heart-breaking photo of ER doctor grieving after losing 19-year-old patient

Hearing that a family member has died is such an awful and wrenching experience for the relative that it’s easy to forget the emotional toll that must be taken by doctors sharing the news.

It was laid bare in a photo shared on Reddit this morning however, which shows a doctor stepping outside a hospital to collect his thoughts following the death of a young patient.

“The man pictured was…

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Syria: In a besieged hospital, sleeping and resting were an impossible luxury

Syria: In a besieged hospital, sleeping and resting were an impossible luxury

Dr. S is a young surgeon who graduated shortly after the outbreak of the crisis in Syria. He now works in a makeshift hospital in a semi-rural neighbourhood located to the east of Damascus. This is a facility that received dedicated MSF support and supplies throughout the period of siege, support that continues on a regular monthly basis to this day. He tells the story of his medical journey – an…

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Neuroscientist debunks one of the most popular myths about the brain At some point in your life, you've probably been labeled a "right-brain thinker" (you're so creative!) or a "left-brain thinker" (you're so logical). 

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Three Men Receive Bionic Hands Controlled With Their Minds The outlook used to be pretty bleak for those who had lost movement in their limbs due to severe nerve damage, but over the last year or so, some incredible advances have been made that are restoring shattered hope for many.

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Feast-and-famine diet could help extend life, study suggests Think of it as interval training for the dinner table.University of Florida Health researchers have found that putting people on a feast-or-famine diet may mimic some of the benefits of fasting, and that adding antioxidant supplements may counteract those benefits.

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Patients Choose Amputation to Replace Damaged Hands With Bionics

Patients Choose Amputation to Replace Damaged Hands With Bionics

Marcus Kemeter, who lives in the Lower Austrian town of Hollabrunn, damaged his shoulder in a 1996 motorcycle accident. That year, he had surgery that grafted new nerves to his arm, which restored some function to his shoulder and elbow. Source: Lancet via Bloomberg

Seventeen years after losing the use of his hand in a motorcycle crash, Marcus Kemeter volunteered to have it amputated and replaced…

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Here’s what happens to your brain when you give up sugar

Here’s what happens to your brain when you give up sugar

»Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital of the World” – doesn’t help either of us.

But Andrew is braver than I am. Last year, he gave up sweets for Lent. I can’t say that I’m following in his footsteps this year, but if you are…

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Highly Aggressive New Strain Of HIV Is Spreading Through Cuba Given the deadly global rampage that HIV has been on for the past few decades, you’re all probably familiar with the virus.

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'Cyborg' spinal implant could help paralysed walk again

‘Cyborg’ spinal implant could help paralysed walk again

It might seem like science fiction but a new implant which attaches directly to the spine could help paralysed people walk again

The implant is so effective because it mimics the soft tissue around the spine so that the body does not reject its presence.

Paralysed patients have been given new hope of recovery after rats with severe spinal injuries walked again through a ‘groundbreaking’ new…

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