Pharmaceuticals, personal care products could taint swimming pools
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- Written by Emil Venere
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West Lafayette, Indiana - A new study suggests pharmaceuticals and chemicals from personal care products end up in swimming pools, possibly interacting with chlorine to produce disinfection byproducts with unknown properties and health effects.
Grant to speed Ebola drug production
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- Written by Andy Fell
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Davis, California - Researchers at the University of California, Davis, will explore ways to speed production of the Ebola drug Zmapp with a $200,000 rapid-response grant from the National Science Foundation.
Using light to produce natural sleep patterns
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- Written by Helen Knight
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Getting enough of the right kind of sleep is crucial for keeping both body and mind healthy.
Health Home Run: Baseball’s Dmitri Young Gets Another Turn at Life
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- Written by Anna Baker
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Alexandria, Virginia - Former professional player Dmitri Young impressed the baseball world when he appeared at a game this summer, having lost about 100 pounds since he last played in 2010.
Stroke falls to 5th leading cause of death in U.S.
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Dallas, Texas - Stroke has dropped from the nation’s fourth-leading cause of death to number 5, according to new federal statistics. It is the second time since 2011 that stroke has dropped a spot in the mortality rankings.
Stem cell transplants may halt progression of multiple sclerosis
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Washington, DC - Three-year outcomes from an ongoing clinical trial suggest that high-dose immunosuppressive therapy followed by transplantation of a person's own blood-forming stem cells may induce sustained remission in some people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). RRMS is the most common form of MS, a progressive autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord.
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