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Released: 7-Feb-2017 4:05 PM EST
Worlds Imagined: The Maps of Imaginary Places Collection
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Authors who create elaborate fantasy worlds often provide maps to guide readers through these imaginary lands. Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library and Archives invites visitors to explore fantasy maps with the new exhibit, Worlds Imagined: The Maps of Imaginary Places Collection.

Released: 19-Dec-2016 5:05 PM EST
Male Firefighters Not at Increased Risk of Divorce, Research Shows
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Typing “divorce rates for firefighters” into a search engine brings up page after page of scary statistics that suggest the people who willingly run into burning buildings have unstable marriages.

Released: 19-Dec-2016 5:05 PM EST
Tips to Protect Your Baby From RSV
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Coughing, sneezing and a runny nose: You might think it is yet another cold, but if your baby is under 2 years old, it could very well be respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Released: 19-Dec-2016 5:05 PM EST
Repairing a Broken System: The Role of Technology
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Technology has promised to transform health care for years now. Multiple apps, devices, and other e-health approaches are being created to help the patient increase their awareness, education and accountability in their own health. In the not-so-distant future, technology will be able to continuously monitor, track and even diagnose a patient remotely.

Released: 19-Dec-2016 5:05 PM EST
5 Reasons to Stop Biting Your Nails
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Many people have nervous habits, such as pacing or fidgeting, and although many are harmless, if you bite your nails when you’re stressed or anxious, you are actually at risk for some ailments. Texas A&M University Health Science Center experts offer five reasons why you should kick this habit.

   
Released: 19-Dec-2016 5:05 PM EST
What You Should Know About Mumps
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Mumps may seem like a contagion relegated to history books, but like many other diseases of the past now preventable with a vaccine, mumps has been making a resurgence. Cases are at 10-year high and are especially common on college campuses across the country.

Released: 15-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
Why Are Prescription Drugs So Expensive?
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It’s no secret that the cost of prescription drugs—especially brand-name drugs—has been rising far faster than inflation over the last few years. This high cost is one reason that some people aren’t taking the medication their providers prescribe for them.

Released: 15-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
What You Should Know About Zika
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According to the World Health Organization, Zika is no longer a global emergency. However, in South Texas, we now have the first case of Zika transmitted by mosquitoes locally. This is only the second state in the United States to report a case of local transmission of the disease.

Released: 15-Dec-2016 12:05 PM EST
A Diet of Fruits, Vegetables May Help Kidney Disease Patients
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Sometimes treating a chronic disease can be as simple as adding fruits and vegetables to the diet, at least that’s what researchers at the Texas A&M College of Medicine have found.

Released: 15-Dec-2016 12:05 PM EST
Why Do I Get The Chills When I’m Not Cold?
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When you find yourself in an eerie place or the beat drops just right during a favorite song, the chills start multiplying. You know the feeling. It is a shiver that seems to come from within and makes your hairs stand on end.

Released: 15-Dec-2016 12:05 PM EST
Teens’ Use of E-Cigarettes Rising, According to Surgeon General Report
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The United States Surgeon General recently issued a report that adolescents’ use of electronic cigarettes has more than tripled since 2011. As recently as 2010, e-cigarettes were rare, but in 2015, 40 percent of high school students said they had used e-cigarettes at least once.

   
Released: 8-Dec-2016 3:05 PM EST
Can You Unconsciously Forget an Experience?
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Wanting to squash not-so-great memories is human nature, but is it possible to intentionally forget a traumatic experience? Darlene McLaughlin, MD, psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor with the Texas A&M College of Medicine, explains how your mind may help you get through a traumatic event.

Released: 8-Dec-2016 3:05 PM EST
Can You Sneeze with Your Eyes Open?
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The changing weather brings about many things: holiday excitement, a different wardrobe and—perhaps most annoyingly—cold and flu season. Those around you have likely been sneezing more frequently, which may have prompted you to ponderif it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Released: 8-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
Bringing Produce to the Food Deserts of South Texas
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a name for areas in which people live far from a supermarket or large grocery store that sells nutritious foods and where much of the population lacks easy access to transportation: food deserts.

Released: 8-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
5 Factors That Affect Male Fertility
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 18 percent of men who sought help with a fertility specialist were diagnosed with a male-related infertility. Here are some factors from the Texas A&M College of Nursing that can impact your fertility.

Released: 30-Nov-2016 11:05 AM EST
6,000 Years Ago The Sahara Desert Was Tropical, So What Happened?
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As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in the world’s weather patterns abruptly transformed the vegetated region into some of the driest land on Earth.

Released: 22-Nov-2016 1:05 PM EST
Texas A&M Retailing Studies Director Offers Insight Regarding Holiday Shopping Trends, Tips
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With the holiday shopping season fast-approaching, retailers around the country are preparing to put new and innovative sales strategies to the test and capture the attention of customers, notes Kelli Hollinger, director of the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School.

Released: 21-Nov-2016 12:05 PM EST
The Best Way to Cover Your Sneeze
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It’s normal to sneeze: It’s the body’s natural reflex to an invader—whether pollen, cat hair or a virus that leads to the common cold—in your nose linings. No matter the cause, your sneezes spread germs, and it’s best to catch them the correct way to prevent spreading illness.

Released: 17-Nov-2016 11:05 AM EST
What Is Buck Fever?
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Hundreds of dollars spent on gear. Endless hours devoted to prepping stands. It’s what you’ve been waiting for all year long—deer season—and hunters across the country are flocking to the woods. Unfortunately for some, the thrill of the hunt can become all too real.

Released: 15-Nov-2016 1:05 PM EST
A Possible Explanation for Recurring Breast Cancer
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In October, we mourned those who died of breast cancer and celebrated all of the women (and men) who have survived. What many of those survivors worry about, though, is that their breast cancer may come back. It has puzzled scientists and health care providers that cancer can suddenly reappear, often with a vengeance, months or years after treatment is over.



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