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People looking for natural cures will be happy to know there is one. Two words explain how it works: "I believe." It's the placebo effect - the ability of a dummy pill or a faked treatment to make people feel better, just because they expect that it will.

University of Oregon -- UO chemist J. Andrew BerglundEUGENE, Ore. -- -- A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs.

Despite their small body size, naked mole rats can live up to 30 years because they never contract cancer.

A team from the University of Miami, University of El Paso and University of Rochester have employed Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity in the African Rift.

Disney is offering refunds to parents who purchased the "Baby Einstein" DVD series.

President Barack Obama signed legislation today to extend unemployment insurance benefits and tax credits for first-time homebuyers and provide tax refunds to money-losing companies.

University of Oregon-University of Rochester team finds compound that reverses type 1 myotonic dystrophy IMAGE: Andrew Berglund, a member of the University of Oregon's Institute of Molecular Biology, studies myotonic dystrophy.

Rochester will host the games in the summer of 2011. Friday, November 6, 2009 Rochester will be the site of the 2011 Empire State Games, the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation announced Thursday.

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PORTERVILLE, CA, November 5, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Dr. Songlin Liang, Pathologist for Premier Pathology Laboratories, Inc., has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in clinical research.

Republican victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races may make some congressional Democrats more leery of backing key elements of President Barack Obamaa s agenda because of the political price they could pay, analysts said.

When the news broke on Wednesday that a domestic cat had come down with H1N1 swine flu, probably transmitted to the feline by sick owners, many people no doubt wondered how vulnerable their own pets were to the illness.

A 35-mile-long rift in the desert of Ethiopia could rip open, creating a new sea in just days, scientists say.

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Breast Cancer Symposium held in San Francisco recently, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center made an announcement that at first glance may seem startling -- at least it may startle people who are unaware of the preventive and healing power of nutrients.

With flu vaccination season in full swing, research from the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that use of many common pain killers - Advil, Tylenol, aspirin - at the time of injection may blunt the effect of the shot and have a negative effect on the immune system.

Thomas Golisano will give $10.2 million to the B. Thomas Golisano Foundation, the largest gift in the foundation's history, the organization's officials said Tuesday.

In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia.

The number of suspected cases of swine flu has doubled on the University of Rochester campus in the last several weeks.

William Kuzon, MD, PhD, Reed O. Dingman professor and section head of plastic surgery, University of Michigan, has been named president of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation at Plastic Surgery 2009, the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons .