Word: stress
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...study's authors suggest that exercise lowers the risk for cerebrovascular disease by increasing blood flow to the brain; exercise may also enhance the brain's ability to build "functional reserves" against damage by building elasticity in synapses and decreasing the secretion of stress hormones that negatively impact brain tissue. Still, the authors note that like many observational studies, theirs has limitations. It's possible, for example "that exercise, in our study, was a proxy for other, unaccounted for lifestyle habits or environmental influences," says Ravaglia. People who are regularly active are "more likely to be more careful of their...
...Weiss laughs when asked if the descriptors are part spin - "Free Spirit" as a euphemism for "Fence Jumper," for example. "They are positive," she admits, compared with kennel cards that in the past would stress the negative, saying things like "Runs away," "Hates cats," and the always-cheerful "Watch your hands...
Probably not. Officials at the CDC and FDA stress that there is no serious health risk associated with this recall. The vaccines themselves have not been contaminated so far, but Merck decided to pull all the shots made on those machines as a precaution...
...daily lives of the monkeys are carefully regulated. All proposals for research using vertebrate animals have to be approved by the IACUC, which has to follow a complex web of federal, state, city, andUniversity guidelines that protect the monkeys from physical and psychological stress...
Tamarin health is checked weekly by veterinarians from Harvard’s Animal Resources Center and daily by the animal care staff, who look for signs of stress such as weight loss or pacing back and forth, according to Arthur L. Lage, the director of Harvard’s Animal Resources Center...