A collection of some interesting medical articles published recently:What Kids Around the World Eat for Breakfast. “In many parts of the world, breakfast is tepid, sour, fermented and savory.” After birth, babies prefer the foods they were exposed to in utero, a phenomenon called “prenatal flavor learning” http://buff.ly/1tbjAYf
High Milk Consumption Linked to Higher Mortality in Adults, Without Fracture-Prevention Benefits http://buff.ly/1wET24c
90% of workers perform better when listening to music, different genres of music are better tailored to certain tasks http://buff.ly/1xE1RJK
A Push to Back Traditional Chinese Medicine With More Data. Researchers Marry Modern Analytical Techniques to Centuries-Old Theories on What Makes People Sick - WSJ. U.S. government has a budget of $120 million to fund research on the efficacy and safety of alternative medicines http://on.wsj.com/1tKufv1
What You Learn in Your 40s - We still have time for a second act, but we’d better get moving on it - NYTimes -- If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them http://nyti.ms/1tKvI4r
Colon Cancer on the Rise for U.S. Adults Under 50. Reasons behind trend unclear http://buff.ly/1xw3eha
Gluten Isn't the Only Culprit in Celiac Disease - patients have immune reactions to 5 groups of non-gluten proteins http://buff.ly/1xw3soC
Long-term marijuana use may change brain structure - orbitofrontal "shrinkage" seen on MRIs. The more THC is introduced in the system, the brain responds by reducing the number of THC receptors http://buff.ly/1xw451q
Misuse of contact lenses (wearing them too long, not cleaning them properly) causes 1 million eye infections/yr in US. "Contact lenses offer many benefits, but they are not risk-free. Keratitis can be a scary infection, but it is preventable if people follow healthy habits and take care of their eyes and their lenses". Some bad habits, such as sleeping with contact lenses, failing to clean and replace lens solution frequently, and letting contact lenses get wet while swimming or in the shower, greatly raises the risk for keratitis. People who wear their contact lenses overnight are more than 20 times more likely to get keratitis. http://buff.ly/1xw4iSn
AstraZeneca is developing an antibody treatment to reverse the blood-thinning effect of its heart drug Brilinta http://buff.ly/1qNSuDB
U.S. FDA approves Sanofi's MS drug Lemtrada | Reuters http://buff.ly/1xw4YHh
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