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Teenagers who sport body piercings are more likely to take part in several risky behaviors than their unskewered counterparts. Girls with body piercings are more than twice as likely as other girls to smoke, to skip school, or to have had sex.

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A pilot study shows that breast cancer patients who suffer hot flashes as a side effect of tamoxifen therapy got significant relief from a common seizure medication, gabapentin.

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Basic studies with yeast, together with a new father's shock at the horror of a devastating childhood disease and a serendipitous guess by researchers, have led to important new findings about the molecular cascade of events involved in Batten disease.

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Vitamin E, a compound suspected of playing a role in preventing prostate cancer, interferes with two proteins that play a central role in the development of the disease.

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Scientists are bellying up to the challenge of creating an edible vaccine to confer protection against human papilloma virus (HPV), one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases and the cause of virtually all cases of cervical cancer in women.

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People with a handgun in the home are more than twice as likely to kill themselves compared to similar people who don't have access to handguns.

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Scientists have made a key finding about the cause of the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults, myotonic dystrophy. The research explains how a faulty gene stops the body from making a protein crucial for muscle control.

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Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found that the enzyme cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) plays an essential role in bone formation during skeletal repair.

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There's little room for nonsense in medicine. Stopping even just a little molecular nonsense would open up new vistas for pharmaceutical companies and could help alleviate many types of disease, say scientists.

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Children and teens in the United States who were surveyed after the Sept. 11 attacks were significantly more worried about how to cope with stress than those surveyed before, while parents surveyed after 9/11 actually worried less about their children coping.