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Olympic Hopeful Supports Slumberland Sleep Campaign
Mar 16, 2016European Indoor Champion and Olympic 2016 hopeful heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has pledged her support to Slumberland’s Healthy Sleep Campaign. She made her international debut In London 2012 competing alongside Jessica ...
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Adequate Rhizobia Populations Help Protect Soybean Yields
Apr 25, 2014Adequate levels of rhizobia organisms can help to increase nitrogen fixation; satellite imagery and mapping capabilities help growers identify yield-limiting factors; and developments in drought stress tolerance. Adequate Rhizobia ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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Boosting Self Esteem Is Usually a Job Left to Parents, Guidance Counselors and Teachers
Mar 13, 2014Boosting self esteem is usually a job left to parents, guidance counselors and teachers -- an adult offering a necessary nudge of confidence for tentative toddlers, teens and kids in between. But a new study suggests your old man may ...
Tags: Boosting self esteem, old man, Cortisol
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Daughters Exposed to Their Mother's Stress Hormones May Be Become Nicotine-Dependent Later
Jan 15, 2014Daughters exposed to their mother's stress hormones in the womb may be more likely to become nicotine-dependent later in life, a new long-term study suggests. It also found that girls whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were at higher ...
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Tobacco Smoking by Pregnant Women Has Long Been Viewed as a Public Health Risk
Jan 13, 2014Tobacco smoking by pregnant women has long been viewed as a public health risk because of smoking's adverse effects on the development of a fetus. Smoking during pregnancy is linked to numerous negative outcomes, including low birth ...
Tags: smoking, pregnant women, nicotine addiction, smoking during pregnancy
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Could Anxiety Boost The Risk for Stroke?
Dec 25, 2013Could anxiety boost the risk for stroke? A new long-term study suggests just that -- the greater the anxiety, the greater the risk for stroke. Study participants who suffered the most anxiety had a 33 percent higher risk for stroke ...
Tags: anxiety, risk for stroke
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Genetic Variant Occurring in People with Heart Disease Raises Odds for Heart Attack, Death
Dec 25, 2013A genetic variant occurring in a significant number of people with heart disease appears to raise the odds for heart attack or death by 38 percent, a new study suggests. This "stress reaction gene," which Duke University scientists ...
Tags: heart disease, genetic variant, stress reaction gene, stress hormone
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Obese Children Have Elevated Levels of a Key Stress Hormone
Dec 25, 2013Obese children have elevated levels of a key stress hormone, according to a new study. Researchers measured levels of cortisol -- considered an indicator of stress -- in hair samples from 20 obese and 20 normal-weight children, aged 8 to ...
Tags: obese children, stress hormone, kids health
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Researchers Explain Biological Mechanism Resulting in Therapeutic Effects of Meditation
Dec 17, 2013U.S. and European researchers say they may be able to explain the biological mechanism resulting in the therapeutic effects of meditation. Study author Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the ...
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Chronobiologically Adapted Lighting Leads to a Medically Measurable Improvemet
Dec 11, 2012Partners from research and industry are studying the principles of next-generation cabin lighting Gradual transitions from day into night have become standard today on board of modern passenger aircraft. Bergische Universität ...
Tags: cabin lighting, Osram, LED, flight tests, LED-based lighting