Medical progress: 1994 was a very good year

Article Abstract:

An overview is presented of important 1994 medical discoveries in the fields of behavioral medicine, cancer, cardiovascular disease, dentistry, dermatology, diabetes, ear, nose and throat ailments, gastrointestinal disease and neurology.

Medical research, 1994 AD

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Tears; medical research helps explain why you cry

Article Abstract:

William H. Frey II, director of the Dry Eye and Research Center at St Paul Ramsey Medical Center, discusses the differences between types of tears. Only humans cry because of joy or sadness. The process of crying is described.

Analysis, Interview, Tearing, Tears, Crying, Frey, William H., II

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B vitamin helps prevent birth defects

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Research indicates that women who take a B vitamin supplement early in pregnancy have reduced likelihood of having a child with a neural tube defect. Pregnant women should consume .4 milligrams of vitamin B daily.

Abnormalities, Prevention, Physiological aspects, Food and nutrition, Pregnant women, Birth defects, Neural tube, Neural tube defects, Vitamin B, Vitamin B complex

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