One area is the striatum, which helps record cues or landmarks that guide you to familiar destinations. When the striatum goes on autopilot, you can arrive at a common destination, such as work, with little memory of the trip.

This weight cycling, also known as "yo-yo" dieting, has been vilified over the years. Studies have linked it to everything from high blood pressure and high cholesterol to diabetes and depression.

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It was previously known that people with OSA [obstructive sleep apnea] severe enough to affect their daytime alertness and manifest in other ways are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but this finding suggests that many more people, some of

Canadian and U.S. researchers have found that the human rhinovirus, long blamed for causing the common cold, doesn't actually cause those annoying sniffles, sneezes, and coughs.

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By the time the participants were 32 years old, those who had used alcohol or drugs before age 15 were two to three times more likely to have developed substance dependence, contracted sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), dropped out of school,

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As concerns emerge about the health of the insurance industry, the Treasury has decided to spend some of its $700 billion financial rescue program to help shore it up. Insurance companies have been dragged down by troubled assets on their

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Minimally invasive investigations, such as pleural fluid cytological assessment and closed percutaneous pleural biopsy, are often performed first in the investigation of suspected malignant pleural effusions. Malignant pleural effusions can be diagnosed with pleural fluid cytology alone in most cases;

Background:The prevalence of H. pylori is as high as 60-70% in Chinese population. Although duodenal ulcer and gastric cancer are both caused by H. pylori, they are at opposite ends of the spectrum and as such are considered mutually exclusive.