Diabetes rises with daily soda -- including diet soda -- consumption

A comprehensive study of European adults has found that compared with people who drink a single sugar-sweetened drink daily, those who drink water, coffee or tea instead are at 14% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

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Well: Easing Diabetes Risk, One Beverage at a Time

Substituting just one serving a day of water or unsweetened tea or coffee for one serving of a sugar-sweetened soft drink or dairy beverage can significantly reduce the incidence of Type 2 diabetes, a new study has found.








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In mere minutes, Mercury's Messenger will meet its doom

In a matter of minutes, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury with a bang.

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Pumping iron failing to make you leaner? Blame your genes

You're a regular in the gym's weight room, grunting and sweating in hopes of turning fat into muscle and maybe even losing some weight. And yet your goal eludes you.

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Well: Doctors and Nurses, Not Learning Together

There are few group projects in medical school — which is strange when you consider that there are few solo practitioners in the real world.








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Too many chins? FDA clears a treatment for that

It's not life-threatening, but as many as 7 in 10 Americans say they're bedeviled by double chin, a condition for which the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a new treatment: an injectable substance called deoxycholic acid, to be marketed as Kybella.

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A dinosaur with bat-like wings? Strange fossil baffles scientists

A new dinosaur fossil from China has thrown paleontologists for a loop. The strange dinosaur has bony wing-like features that are wildly different from those of its close flying relatives and instead look more like those on a flying squirrel or a bat.

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What urine reveals about obesity

Let's face it: Obesity's not hard to diagnose. It's easily done with a scale, a tape measure and (if you don't want to do the math yourself), a body-mass index (BMI) calculator . Or you could go old-school, and use your eyes.

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3-D printed medical device grows with kids, saves their lives

Doctors at the University of Michigan have created the first 3-D printed device that can grow with an infant and disintegrate inside the body when no longer needed.

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Well: New Shingles Vaccine May Offer Improved Protection

An investigational shingles vaccine may be more effective, particularly in older people.








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Green smiley faces entice kids to eat vegetables, ditch chocolate milk

Crusaders in the fight against childhood obesity have discovered a powerful new weapon – the green smiley-faced emoticon.

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Well: Exploring Why Some People Get Fitter Than Others

A new study in rats adds to a growing body of data about how and why bodies respond so differently to exercise.








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Would animals swim differently on an alien planet?

If finned swimming animals evolved in an ocean on an alien world, what would they look like? Quite possibly a lot like the ones on Earth, a team of researchers says.

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A record number of West Coast whales were entangled in crab fishing gear

An unusually large number of whales dining in areas off the West Coast also prized by the fishing industry is contributing to an alarming surge in the number of cetaceans entangled in crabbing gear.

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Bullying does more long-term mental health harm than abuse, study says

The long-term effects of being bullied by other kids are worse than being abused by an adult, new research shows.

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Mystery of sun's corona solved? It's nanoflares, scientists say

One of the greatest mysteries of how stars behave has been right in our own backyard: the sun’s corona. Scientists have long wondered what heats this thin, ethereal shell of particles to roughly 300 times the temperature of the surface of the sun itself.

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Well: Air Pollution Tied to Brain Aging

Air pollution is known to increase the risk for stroke and other cerebrovascular disorders. But now researchers have found it is also linked to premature aging of the brain.








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A weird 'platypus' dinosaur made of mismatched parts

Paleontologists have unearthed a strange new species of dinosaur that is unlike anything they have seen before.

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Benefits of HPV vaccine can be seen in high school girls, study says

Years before the HPV vaccine prevents women from getting cervical cancer, it protects them against genital warts and cervical dysplasia, new research suggests.

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Youthful binge-drinking changes the brain -- for the worse -- into adulthood

The adult brain that was awash in alcohol during its formative years looks different and acts differently than an adult brain that skipped the youthful binge-drinking, says a new study conducted on rats.

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Well: Admitted to Your Bedroom: Some Hospitals Try Treating Patients at Home

Under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, a handful of health care systems are hospitalizing patients in their homes.








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