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Is peeling the skin around my finger nails continuously considered “self-harm”?

September 4, 2018 anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, stress

It sounds like your peeling the skin is a nervous habit rather than “self-harm”. There may be more than one

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Inherited gene that leads to Huntington’s causes changes in brain development from a young age

September 3, 2018 A, age, brain, Causes, Changes, development, From, gene, Huntington's, in, Inherited, leads, that, to, young

The inherited gene that leads to Huntington’s disease has been found to affect brain development from an early age, even

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Tempus, Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky’s cancer-fighting startup, raises another $110 million

August 31, 2018 $110, another, cancer-fighting, co-founder, Eric, Groupon, Lefkofsky's, million, raises, startup, Tempus

Chicago-based cancer-fighting data startup Tempus is now valued at $2 billion. The company, led by Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, announced

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Understanding how visual information guides behavior

August 31, 2018 Behavior, guides, How, information, understanding, Visual

To understand more about how we respond to what we see around us, a team of scientists at NERF has

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Researchers report mechanisms governing body temperature regulation

August 31, 2018 body, governing, mechanisms, regulation, report, Researchers, temperature

Researchers from Kanazawa University report in the Journal of Neuroscience on a microdialysis study on mice to determine mechanisms underlying

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New guideline aids in diagnosing idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

August 31, 2018 AIDS, diagnosing, fibrosis, Guideline, idiopathic, in, New, pulmonary

A new international guideline has been developed to help physicians diagnosis idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a rare and often fatal

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Hip fracture patients leaving hospital need osteoporosis plan

August 31, 2018 fracture, hip, hospital, leaving, Need, osteoporosis, patients, plan

Patients leaving hospital after a hip fracture should be given an osteoporosis plan as a priority, says the Australian and

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Discovery suggests which thyroid cancer patients may need more aggressive treatment

August 31, 2018 aggressive, cancer, discovery, may, more, Need, patients, suggests, thyroid, treatment, Which

Research from the University of Alberta is prompting doctors to re-examine how they treat patients with thyroid cancer in Alberta.

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Mechanism of Marburg virus sexual transmission identified in nonhuman primates

August 30, 2018 identified, in, Marburg, Mechanism, nonhuman, of, primates, Sexual, transmission, virus

Research published today by a team of Army scientists sheds light on the mechanism of sexual transmission of filoviruses, including

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Study illustrates challenges of lowering tetanus mortality

August 30, 2018 challenges, illustrates, lowering, Mortality, of, study, tetanus

The overall mortality in patients suffering non-neonatal tetanus is high. Efforts to reduce mortality in one sub-Saharan African intensive care

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