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Researchers have discovered that there are a number of drugs that give cognitive function a boost. These drugs could help fuel our understanding of cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer's disease.
Health-EU - Tue, 20 March 2012
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This reference material, developed by the JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), is the global standard for CRP, enabling laboratories worldwide to use common reference ranges in diagnosis, and to compare results between hospitals and countries over time.
Health-EU - Tue, 6 March 2012
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An international team of researchers led by the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom has identified a genetic link for coronary artery disease (also called coronary heart disease). The results of the study, presented in the journal The Lancet, demonstrate how a father passes on to his son a common heart disease that kills thousands each year.
Health-EU - Tue, 6 March 2012
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Consumers use nutrition labels to make informed decisions about eating the 'right' foods for better health. But new research from Europe shows how there are limitations on how these labels can be used in real-life situations. The results are an outcome of the FLABEL ('Food labelling to advance better education for life ') project, which has clinched almost EUR 2.9 million in funding under the 'Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology' (European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy or KBBE) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Health-EU - Tue, 21 February 2012
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Europe is ageing and as people live longer they are fighting diseases while maintaining a quality of life. The latest technological tools are helping them sustain their health while staying at home. That is because a helping hand is now just a few clicks away.
Health-EU - Tue, 31 January 2012
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The provision of long-term mental health care for people with severe mental disorders has been, and still is, one of the major challenges for mental health systems reform in the last decades, for various reasons.
Health-EU - Mon, 21 November 2011
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The newly published Global status report onalcohol and health analyses available evidence on alcohol consumption and provides data in over100 individual country profiles.
Health-EU - Tue, 15 February 2011
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Just 150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week can reduce the risk of breast and coloncancers. This is according to the new Global Recommendations onPhysical Activity for Health released by WHO today on World Cancer Day.
Health-EU - Mon, 7 February 2011
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Childhood cancer survivors, though being 'cured' of cancer, often experience late physical and psychological effects secondary to their cancer or its treatment. To accelerate the search for new successful treatments and improve the quality of life after cancer, 16 research institutes from 11 European countries have decided to join forces and launch a groundbreaking study funded by the EU.
Health-EU - Mon, 7 February 2011
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According to a new Eurobarometer survey published today, those who are concerned about possible food-related risks tend to worry more about chemical contamination of food rather than bacterial contamination or health and nutrition issues.
Health-EU - Tue, 30 November 2010
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