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SINGING CAN HELP PATIENTS SPEECH

Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists.

By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech.

If a person's "speech center" is damaged by a stroke, they can learn to use their "singing center" instead.

Researchers presented these findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego.

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Peanut Allergies Trial

Doctors in the UK believe they may soon have a cure for peanut allergies.

The largest ever trial to find a treatment for potentially fatal peanut allergies is to give sufferers tiny amounts daily to build up tolerance.

The researchers gave increasing doses of peanut flour to 104 British children, up to the equivalent of five nuts a day. Twenty out of 23 sufferers in an earlier study became able to eat more than 30 peanuts safely.

20 out of 23? What happened to the "other" 3 kids?????

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Personalized Cancer Blood Test Hopeful

Personalized blood tests which could track whether cancer treatment is working or if the disease has come back have been developed by US researchers. The test could be available in five years, they say.

The test identifies tumor DNA "rearrangements" which are specific to the individual patient. In the future, this "genetic fingerprint" could be used to pick out tiny remnants of a tumor. Such techniques are currently very expensive but costs are falling.

The researchers hope that one day the technology could be used to spot cancer recurrence before they would be picked up by scans. DNA from volunteer patients was scanned for rearrangements of large chunks of genetic information which occur in cancer cells but not normal cells.

Known as personalized analysis of rearranged ends (Pare), the technique was developed using six sets of cancerous and normal tissue samples taken from four patients with bowel cancer and two with breast tumors.

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Happiness wards off heart disease, study suggests

Being happy and staying positive may help ward off heart disease, a study suggests.

US researchers monitored the health of 1,700 people over 10 years, finding the most anxious and depressed were at the highest risk of the disease.

Keep your friends happy by sending them flowers!

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The Egyptian "Boy King" Tutankhamun may well have died of malaria after the disease ravaged a body crippled by a rare bone disorder, experts say. The findings could lay to rest conspiracy theories of murder. The scientists in Egypt spent the last two years scrutinising the mummified remains of the 19-year old pharaoh to extract his blood and DNA.

This revealed traces of the malaria parasite in his blood, the Journal of the American Medical Association says. Ever since Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, scholars have speculated over why the 19-year old 'boy king' died so young.

Some believe he was killed by a fall from his chariot. Others suspect foul play. A sudden leg fracture possibly introduced by a fall might have resulted in a life-threatening condition when a malaria infection occurred.

Because he died so young, and left no heirs, scholars have speculated that, instead, he may have suffered from a disease that ran in his family. Artifacts have shown the royalty of that era as having a somewhat curvaceous and rather feminine appearance, which some say would be typical of inherited conditions like Marfan syndrome.

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BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW THREATENS OPEN AREAS Lake-effect snow shifts from Illinois into northwest Indiana with several inches of accumulation possible. Windy and colder with blowing and drifting snow in open areas, particularly in the morning. Turning partly sunny with a few passing flurries. High temperatures top out in the middle 20s. North-northwest winds at 20 to 30 mph and gusty, slowly diminishing in the afternoon. Decreasing cloudiness overnight. Temperatures plunge to 7 to 12 degrees over the fresh snow cover.

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Women, Heart Disease and Stroke

Heart disease isn't just a man's disease. Heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases are devastating to women, too. In fact, coronary heart disease, which causes heart attack, is the single leading cause of death for American women. Many women believe that cancer is more of a threat, but they're wrong. Nearly twice as many women in the United States die of heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases as from all forms of cancer, including breast cancer.

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Internet Addiction Linked to Depression

There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said.

The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were "internet addicts", and many of these were depressed.

The Leeds University team stressed they could not say one necessarily caused the other, and that most internet users did not suffer mental health problems.

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Western medicine considers acupuncture a new and unproven experimental therapy although it has been in use in China for thousands of years. The way the therapy works is simple. Needles are inserted into the skin in an attempt to induce different physiological reactions from a patient. Sometimes electricity is used concurrently. Different regions of the body are said to have different effects on the physiology of the patient.

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