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A division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for most of the agency's medical research programs.

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Chugai Pharma Falls After FDA Seeks Data on Actemra (Update1)

Published December 4, 2008, 6:10 pm, Bloomberg

Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. fell the most in seven weeks in Tokyo trading after U.S. regulators delayed their decision for a second time on whether to approve the company's rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra.

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Prion infectivity found in white and brown fat tissues of mice

Published December 4, 2008, 5:34 pm, EurekAlert!

( Public Library of Science ) Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Scripps Research Institute have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. The study appears Dec. 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.

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Happy Contagion

Published December 4, 2008, 5:18 pm, Newswise

A laugh can be infectious. You don't need a sophisticated study to tell you that. But does this happy contagion vanish as quickly as a smile? New research from UC San Diego and Harvard Medical School shows that happiness spreads far and wide through a social network.

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Washington University researchers solve piece of large-scale gene silencing mystery

Published December 4, 2008, 5:17 pm, SeedQuest

A team led by Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has made a breakthrough in understanding the phenomenon of nucleolar dominance, the silencing of an entire parental set of ribosomal RNA genes in a hybrid plant or animal.

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Fat cells also linked to prion infection

Published December 4, 2008, 5:12 pm, Science News

Disease-causing misfolded proteins at home in a growing list of tissues, organs

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Happiness is a collective -- not just individual -- phenomenon

Published December 4, 2008, 4:33 pm, EurekAlert!

( Harvard Medical School ) Happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional contagion, according to a study that looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of 20 years. When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person's happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends' friends, and his ...

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Happiness Is a Collective--Not Just Individual--Phenomenon

Published December 4, 2008, 4:22 pm, Newswise

Happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional contagion, according to a study that looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of 20 years. When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person's happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends. The ...

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Our future in detail

Published December 4, 2008, 3:51 pm, University of Sydney News

Director of the University's Electron Microscope Unit, Professor Simon, Ringer talks about the need for world class collaborative facilities on the eve of the unit's 50th anniversary.

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Too little sleep tied to increased cancer risk

Published December 4, 2008, 3:06 pm, Canada.com

Regular exercise can reduce a woman's risk of cancer, but the benefits may slip away if she gets too little sleep, U.S. researchers say.

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Grapes may help lower blood pressure: study

Published December 4, 2008, 2:56 pm, Canada.com

Grapes helped lower blood pressure and improve heart function in lab rats fed an otherwise salty diet, U.S. researchers say.

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  • New Study Strongly Links TV and Fat Kids: A new study by the Yale University School of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and California Pacific Medical Center finds that a large exposure to media damages childrens long-term health and is very strongly linked to obesity, smoking and sexual behavior.

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  • genome.gov: National Human Genome Research Institute

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  • DASH Diet Best for Women's Heart: Recent studies from the National Institute of Health have shown that women who follow the DASH diet are at less risk of suffering cardiovascular heart disease (CHD) and strokes.

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