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Inhaled ozone impairs body’s early immune response

Boffins develop new software that can scan cemetery gravestones

Washington, Sept 30 : Carnegie Mellon University scientists are developing new software that could revolutionize the way archaeologists work.

The new software is being developed to scan 200-year-old gravestones at Old St. Luke’s Church in nearby Carnegie to help its Episcopal pastor identify all the names on the cemetery’s tombstones.

Pituitary hormone prolactin may play part in breast cancer: Study

Washington, Sept 30 : Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia have found that prolactin, a pituitary hormone which stimulates breast development and milk production, initiates a new “signaling pathway” that may regulate the growth and survival of breast cancer cells.

Mere heath information may worsen obese kids’ weight status

Working during adolescence linked to increased risk of smoking

Washington, September 30 : Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that working during adolescence raised the risk of a child’s taking to smoking at an earlier age.

The researchers focused their study on 14 to 18-year-old adolescents, and found that the subjects who worked more than 10 hours per week also started smoking at an earlier age than their peers.

Occupational exposures may raise death risk from autoimmune disease

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