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Research Roundup: Soda taxes, health reform timeline, children's health disparities, best hospital practices News-Medical-Net Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:01 AM PDT Health Affairs: Soda Taxes, Soft Drink Consumption, And Children's Body Mass Index - "Using data on state sales taxes for soda and individual-level data on children," the authors report existing taxes on soda fail to "substantially affect overall levels of soda consumption or obesity rates." However, the authors also found "statistically significant and substantively larger effects of ... NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital installs high-tech imaging systems for heart and vascular surgeries News-Medical-Net Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:32 AM PDT In a move that could change the way many patients undergo surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has installed five state-of-the-art Siemens Artis zeego- medical imaging systems that provide faster, more accurate 3-D images of the body with a quality never before attainable. New business owner can help the body maintain health Papillion Times Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:28 AM PDT If your back is feeling a little sore or you’re feeling a little under the weather, maybe it’s time to visit the newest business in town â€" ReConnect Chiropractic, P.C. Kinetics of T cell receptors: New findings could lead to reevaluation of earlier conclusions News-Medical-Net Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:17 AM PDT T cell receptors are among the most important molecules in the immune system because of their role in recognizing the antigens that signal such threats as viruses and cancer. The receptors must also distinguish these threats from the body's own cells to avoid triggering an unwanted immune system response. Frontier House celebrates 20 years Greeley Tribune Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:05 AM PDT Frances Coors remembers in detail when she first joined the Frontier House, feeling so depressed that she could barely peel herself from her seat. Family dinners were terrible. She would sit, body tense at the table unable to enjoy not only herself, but also her husband and three children. "I was afraid to be around people." Coors said. "Laughing and enjoying spending time with others." When her ... Harnessing body's own natural killer cells to battle cancer in children News-Medical-Net Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:47 PM PDT Work underway at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital seeks to harnesses the body's own immune cells known as natural killer, or NK, cells to help children battle cancer. NK cells are the immune system's warriors. The cells circulate widely in the body, armed with proteins, called enzymes, capable of delivering a deadly one-two punch to viruses and cancer cells. Coloradans give shroud relic a new dimension Summit Daily News Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:44 PM PDT For centuries, the faithful and skeptics have continued to hope, doubt, wonder and probe whether the image of Christ was left on the burial cloth his body was wrapped in on Good Friday, which many believe is the Shroud of Turin. The widely held alternative is that the shroud is a medieval hoax so ingenious it seems almost miraculous in itself. "Whatever put this image on the cloth is a radical ... Understanding the effects of stress on brain and body Business Examiner Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:03 PM PDT As many of you know, my focus of recent is to study brain function and how the effects of stress and trauma affect our brain and our state of mental, emotional and physical health and well being. Police look into motive in body parts case KOB 4 Albuquerque Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:54 PM PDT Police say they may know why body parts donated in Albuquerque ended up at a Kansas facility. The owner of a company that sells harvested organs for medical research has been arrested after torsos and heads were found in a biohazard tub at Stericycle in Kansas.

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