| Date: Nov 20, 2009
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Children's sleep position appears correlated with the location of deformational plagiocephaly, which typically presents as a flat spot on the back of the skull, according to research published online Nov. 16 in Pediatrics.
Date: Nov 20, 2009
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Important practice setting differences exist in the use and availability of trained medical interpreters and telephone interpretation services for communicating with limited English proficient patients, according to a study published online Oct. 29 in Health Services Research.
Date: Nov 19, 2009
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Men who drink alcohol are at lower risk of coronary heart disease than their non-drinking counterparts, according to a Spanish study published online Nov. 19 in Heart.
Date: Nov 19, 2009
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People infected with herpes simplex virus 2 experience almost constant releases of small numbers of viruses from the neurons that host them into the genital tract, which may make prevention of person-to-person transmission difficult, according to a mathematical model of HSV-2 behavior described in a paper published online Nov. 18 in Science Translational Medicine.
Date: Nov 19, 2009
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New developments in eating disorders, including research on the biological contributions to illness onset and maintenance, may have important implications for clinicians, according to a Seminar published online Nov. 19 in The Lancet.
Date: Nov 18, 2009
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Young adults who complete a program of training in transcendental meditation, and who are at risk of hypertension, are able to use the relaxation method to lower their blood pressure and levels of psychological distress, according to a study published online Oct. 1 and in the December issue of the American Journal of Hypertension.
Date: Nov 17, 2009
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A telephone-based care program, conducted by nurses in collaboration with patients' primary care physicians and supervised by a psychiatrist, helps combat post-surgical depression among coronary artery bypass graft patients, according to a study published online Nov. 16 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Date: Nov 16, 2009
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Sexual satisfaction is associated with better psychological well-being in women, underscoring the importance of sexual function to women's overall health, according to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Date: Nov 16, 2009
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The rate at which individuals eat a meal may affect the postprandial response of gut peptides, according to a crossover study conducted in Greece and published online Oct. 29 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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