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everal mechanisms by which the gut microbiota may contribute to obesity have been shown in animal studies.
hort-chain fatty acids, prebiotics, and certain species of probiotics have been shown to affect the gut microbiota and reduce weight gain in animals subject to high-fat diet feeding.
here are a few clinical trials showing beneficial aspects of prebiotics and probiotics on abdominal adiposity.
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he improvement in back pain and back-related function in this predominantly minority and low-income population was similar to prior studies looking at more affluent populations.
here did not appear to be a dose response when comparing twice-weekly to once-weekly yoga classes, but this finding was confounded by a smaller than expected difference between the groups in the time spent in yoga practice and lack of reliable data on the amount of home practice.
he study suggests that the greatest benefit may occur in the first 6 weeks of practice.
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Dabigatran is a novel anticoagulant that has been shown to be at least as good as warfarin at preventing thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation (AF).
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Pacemaker or defibrillator leads have been shown to have attached thrombi in up to one-third of cases and asymptomatic pulmonary emboli have been documented in up to 20% of patients.
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More than three-fourths of these serious infections were due to Plasmodium falciparum, followed at some distance by typhoid and paratyphoid fever, and by leptospirosis and a variety of other infections.
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Snooping out counterfeit anti-malarials; Teflon to some; Rethinking TB screening in a low risk population
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The novel coronavirus which emerged in the Middle East, now officially called MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), has continued to cause new, often fatal infections. As of June 7, 2013, there have been 55 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Two recent studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention evaluated the risks for spread of respiratory viruses from travelers on commercial airplanes.