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What’s the best way to spot urban health crises before they happen? According to researchers at MIT, that solution might involve examining a city’s sewers. Carlo Ratti is director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab, where he’s currently working on a project called “Underworlds”. The focus is on the waste contained below a city, with a […]
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Health researchers have made an important discovery in uncovering the causes of autism spectrum disorder. Specifically, they’ve found sixty genes that may significantly increase a child’s chance of developing autism. The research — which was led by Dr. Matthew State, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco — involved […]
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For years we’ve been told that drinking milk, which contains calcium, strengthens our bones, making them less likely to fracture. But new research suggests that may not be the case. A study carried out by researchers in Sweden showed that women who drank three glasses of milk each day were more likely to suffer broken […]
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Suicide is far too prevalent among the youth of Aboriginal communities based in the Arctic. Now, Canada is taking charge of a new, international study that will seek solutions for this growing problem. Last year 45 people killed themselves in Nunavut, a Canadian territory with a population of just 31,900. That represented a major increase […]
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Surgeons in Australia have completed a remarkable procedure: they’ve successfully transplanted a heart that had stopped beating. In a typical scenario a beating heart is taken from someone who has suffered a catastrophic brain injury and is deemed ‘brain dead’. These hearts are then kept on ice for a maximum of four hours before being […]
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