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Even though the causes of depression have not been fully identified yet, the scientific community agrees to affirm that it is produced by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. One of the environmental risk factors that is more commonly...

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After summer holidays, ‘miracle-diet’ adherents stick to these diets to lose the weight gained in the last months in record time. Gyms also become overcrowded with people making a final sprint of sacrifice whose results do not exactly match previous...

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Research carried out at the Department of Physiology of the University of Granada has revealed that goat milk has more beneficial properties to health than cow milk. Among these properties it helps to prevent ferropenic anaemia (iron deficiency) and bone...

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The doctoral thesis entitled “Efectos a corto plazo de la masoterapia tras estrés físico” (Short-term effects of therapeutic massage after induced physical stress), written by Doctor Manuel Arroyo Morales, from the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Granada, has...

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Lupus is an autoimmune disease which produces antibodies causing injuries to the body’s cells and tissue. It makes the immune system go out of control and the organism attack healthy cells instead of the germs on them. This pathology, which...

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Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) refers to a reduction of blood flow in the arteries. Its main clinical symptom is intermittent claudication, which refers to cramp-like pains in the legs after walking for a while, thus stopping the patient from walking....

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Glycine is a non-essential amino acid used by the organism to synthesise proteins and is present in foods such as fish, meat or dairy products. The study, carried out at the Cellular Metabolism Institute in Tenerife and at the Department...

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In Medicine, paracetamol is used to soothe every kind of pain, from simple molar pain to pain produced by bone fractures. This medicine is one of the most used nowadays. However, research carried out at the Department of Nursing of...

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Parasites must be correctly identified before the correct treatment is introduced. To do so, we need a fast and cheap technique that enables us to obtain the necessary results in our studies, especially in under developed countries where there are...

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In the past, the newborns’ umbilical cord was not clamped right after birth, thus allowing the blood flow to stop naturally. This practice, known as “late clamping”, was replaced by “early clamping”, that is, cutting the cord immediately after the...

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