Eating foods high in salt is known to contribute to high blood pressure, but does that linear relationship extend to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death? Recent cohort studies …read more Source:: Science
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Marriage may protect against heart disease/stroke and associated risk of death
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•Marriage may protect against the development of heart disease/stroke as well as influencing who is more likely to die of it, suggests a new analysis. …read more Source:: Science
Bycatch responsible for decline of endangered New Zealand sea lion
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•Getting caught in fishing nets is a major cause of death for the increasingly endangered New Zealand sea lion, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
Flint’s water crisis led to fewer babies and higher fetal death rates, researchers find
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•An estimated 275 fewer children were born in Flint, Michigan, while the city was using lead-contaminated water from the Flint River, according to new research findings. …read more Source:: Science
Addictive cravings still detectable after death
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•A protein known as FosB in the reward centre of the brain alters in chronically ill people suffering from an addictive disorder (e.g. heroin addiction): it is genetically modified, split …read more Source:: Science
Life and death following Great Barrier Reef bleaching
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•Scientists have confirmed the largest die-off of corals ever recorded on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The worst affected area, a 700 km swath of reefs in the northern region of …read more Source:: Science
‘Smell of death’ could help sniffer dogs
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•Forensic toxicologists have pinpointed the specific chemical compounds emitted by decaying human bodies in an effort to improve police sniffer dogs’ ability to find buried bodies, vastly reducing the number …read more Source:: UKScienceNews