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Living a Heart Healthy Lifestyle Can Lower Kidney Failure Risk

New research from the UAB School of Public Health shows that patients with chronic kidney disease may improve their health by making lifestyle behavior changes.

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Taking Bullying By the Horns: Baylor Lyricist Joins with Students and Musicians to Issue a Call for Respect

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WACO, Texas (May 23, 2013) — By blending choruses, empathy and common sense, Baylor University lyricist-poet Terry York and more than 200 elementary school students and adults in choirs have begun an unusual anti-bullying crusade.

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Dining Outdoors? Tips for Keeping Food Safe and Delicious

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Al fresco dining is one of the great pleasures of warm weather. Whether you’re hosting a neighborhood barbecue or an intimate dinner party on your deck, outdoor dining is a great way to savor good food, company and the great outdoors. To ensure your meals are safe and enjoyable, it’s important to know how to prepare, transport and store food for outdoor eating. The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) offers some advice for safely handling food when you’re dining outdoors this summer.

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Death Rates Decline for Advanced Heart Failure Patients, but Outcomes are Still not Ideal

UCLA researchers examining outcomes for advanced heart-failure patients over the past two decades have found that, coinciding with the increased availability and use of new therapies, overall mortality has decreased and sudden cardiac death, caused by the rapid onset of severe abnormal heart rhythms, has declined. However, the team found that even today, with these significant improvements, one-third of patients don’t survive more than three years after being diagnosed with advanced disease.

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Understanding Differences in Job Commitment Types Can Lead to Better Correctional Employees

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Commitment to the job by correctional staff members cannot be bought but must be earned by an organization, a Wayne State University researcher believes.

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Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection

In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, a team of Wisconsin scientists has synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections.

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Protein Preps Cells to Survive Stress of Cancer Growth and Chemotherapy

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Scientists have uncovered a survival mechanism that occurs in breast cells that have just turned premalignant-cells on the cusp between normalcy and cancers-which may lead to new methods of stopping tumors.

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Powerful New Method IDs Therapeutic Antibodies

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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have devised a powerful new technique for finding antibodies that have a desired biological effect. The newly reported technique should greatly speed the process of discovering medicines, diagnostics and laboratory reagents.

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Motion Quotient: IQ Predicted by Ability to Filter Visual Motion

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A brief visual task can predict IQ, according to a new study. This surprisingly simple exercise measures the brain’s unconscious ability to filter out visual movement. The study shows that individuals whose brains are better at suppressing background motion perform better on standard measures of intelligence.

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Institute of Food Technologists Selects 2013 Fellows

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is proud to announce its 2013 Fellows. This is a unique professional distinction given to individuals with outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience for their contributions to food science and technology.

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