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• Arteries improve after smokers quit, study finds
  (AP) -- Quitting smoking can turn back time. A year after kicking the habit, smokers' arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, according to the first big study to test this. […]
• New study could help predict suicidal behaviour in older adults
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from Cambridge and Pittsburgh have found. […]
• Mother is ?more essential? to orphans than breadwinner father
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The role of a mother in African families is even more essential to the well-being of a child than the role played by the breadwinner father, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Demography. […]
• British team trek to measure CO2 in Arctic Ocean
  Three British explorers set out on a skiing expedition on Monday across 500 kilometers (310 miles) of floating sea ice to investigate rising acid levels in the Arctic Ocean that threaten marine life. […]
• Study assesses complications associated with nasal ventilation in newborns
  More than 10 percent of newborns who receive oxygenation and ventilation using nasal continuous airway pressure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may experience complications inside or outside the nose, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery. […]
• Research identifies potential new use for cancer treatment
  Drugs increasingly used to treat cancer could have a major impact on a wide range of infectious diseases, according to new research. […]
• Guideline issued for treating sleep, constipation, sexual problems in Parkinson's disease
  The American Academy of Neurology has issued a new guideline recommending the most effective treatments to help people with Parkinson's disease who experience sleep, constipation, and sexual problems, which are common but often underrecognized symptoms. The guideline is published in the March 16, 2010, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the Amer […]