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    • MedLibs Round 2.7 Call for Submissions

      Sunday, July 25th, 2010

      Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of the MedLib’s Round, edition 2.7, on Tuesday, August 10th and is inviting submissions based on the theme of "Leveraging social media to promote health information online". [...]

    • NIH Scientists Advance Universal Flu Vaccine

      Friday, July 23rd, 2010

      A universal influenza vaccine -- so-called because it could potentially provide protection from all flu strains for decades — may become a reality because of research led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health [...]

    • Gene Associated with Rare Adrenal Disorder Appears To Trigger Cell Death, According to NIH Study

      Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

      A gene implicated in Carney complex, a rare disorder of the adrenal glands, appears to function as a molecular switch to limit cell growth and division, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. [...]

    • HON Foundation Launches New Certificate, Study on Internet Use

      Thursday, July 08th, 2010

      Health On the Net (HON) Foundation recently launched a new and improved certificate for medical and health web sites. The new certificate is an initiative to further enhance the HONcode certification system and to encourage health and medical information seekers to be more critical when searching fo [...]

    • A Look Back at 50 Years of Birth Control

      Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

      Birth control pills are a very popular form of birth control. Typically referred to as "the pill", oral contraception has an interesting history and has generated enormous social and cultural impact. This infographic provides insight into statistics collected from Planned Parenthood on birth control [...]

    • How Your Head Can Influence Your Heart

      Thursday, June 24th, 2010

      How you think about your health can have powerful impacts on how you experience your health. In a recent study with a group of cardiac patients, how people thought about their illness was found to have a direct impact on how people experience health and emotional wellbeing. These illness cognitions [...]

    • Vitamin D Status is Not Associated with Risk for Less Common Cancers

      Friday, June 18th, 2010

      Despite hopes that higher blood levels of vitamin D might reduce cancer risk, a large study finds no protective effect against non-Hodgkin lymphoma or cancer of the endometrium, esophagus, stomach, kidney, ovary, or pancreas. [...]

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