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Surgery is an option to achieve weight loss

...Archives of Surgery demonstrating that laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery has better outcomes. Dr. John Morton, the senior author and an associate professor of surgery at Stanford, examined more than 160,000 gastric bypass surgeries in a large...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-09-27/surgery-option-achieve-weigh
Vitamin E repairs muscles, GHSU research finds

...in its outermost surface, it will die if it doesn't repair that tear very quickly," said Dr. Paul McNeil, the senior author on the study. "Vitamin E ? by a mechanism we don't understand yet at the molecular level, certainly ? is promoting...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2011-12-20/vitamin-e-repairs-muscles-gh
Low risk of heart incidents found for marathoners

...increasing as more runners try to go the distance."You hear about this more and more," said Dr. Aaron Baggish, senior author of the studyBaggish, who runs a program for athletes with heart issues at Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-authors...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2012-01-11/low-risk-heart-incid
Kiddie pools pose a big risk

...quickly assemble them, and all this would be done without a lot of forethought about the safety aspects," said the senior author, Dr. Gary A. Smith, the director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-06-21/kiddie-pools-pose-big-risk
Is there a connection between a good diet and healthy complexion?

...improved dramatically, by more than 50 percent, which is more than what you see with topical acne solutions," wrote senior author Neil Mann, an associate professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. The typical teenager's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/11/27/xtr_154231.shtml
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Analysis: Statins have no effect on cancer risk

...Instead, researchers compared 1,953 patients with colorectal cancer to 2,015 people without the illness. The senior author of that study, Dr. Stephen Gruber of the University of Michigan, said the new analysis is valuable, but suggests...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/01/04/liv_39986.shtml
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Study: shortness of breath may be sign of heart disease

...sign to be ignored. It means make sure that your doctor knows about your symptoms," said Dr. Daniel S. Berman, senior author of the study, done at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Doctors take into account a number of risk factors...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/11/03/liv_18979.shtml
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Mating scent of female cockroaches identified

...that gives all the other cockroaches a bad name," said Wendell L. Roelofs, a Cornell University entomologist and senior author of a study appearing this week in the journal Science. Roelofs said scientists for years could not even identify the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/02/18/liv_443464.shtml
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Extra copies of gene help protect from AIDS

...average were more susceptible to HIV infection while those with more than average copies were less prone to infection. Senior authors of the study were Dr. Sunil K. Ahuja of the University of Texas Health Science Center and the Veterans Administration...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/01/07/liv_439246.shtml
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Study: Eating fast food frequently does supersize you

...nutritional quality," said Dr. David Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital Boston and the senior author of the study. "But there have been very few studies, essentially no long-term studies that have documented the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/12/31/foo_438623.shtml
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