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WALKING FOR WELLNESS U.S. researchers have found that regular
exercise not only benefits the heart but will also help the body
make better use of natural insulin and thus prevent the
development of diabetes.
SPICE UP YOUR LIFE Scientists believe that humans developed a
taste for spices as a safeguard against pathogens in food.
Recipes from hotter climates use more spices that have a
stronger antimicrobial effect.
NEW CELLS FOR OLD Victims of strokes could have movement and
behavioral function restored within a year by transplants of
laboratory-grown brain cells, according to researchers in Florida.
Journal of the American Medical Association; Quarterly
Review of Biology; Experimental Neurology
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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN Kidney-transplant patients receiving
immuno-suppressive drugs are at an increased risk of developing
cancers and lymphoma, and should consider sunshine especially
dangerous.
OVER THE BARRIER Australian researchers, who have discovered a
virus that has jumped species from fruit bats to pigs and
apparently to humans, fear that transplanting pig tissue to
humans could pose significant hazards.
SAD SIDE EFFECT British researchers believe that a combined
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could, in a small number of
cases, trigger a new bowel disease associated with autism.
The Lancet; Nature; British Medical Journal
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