Tag: Immune Systems
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The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries
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STOCKHOLM • Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi uncovered a key pathway the body uses to keep the immune system in check, called peripheral immune tolerance.…
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Live Well: Regular or diet soda? Either one is no friend to your body
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Pick your poison: regular soda or diet soda. One is not better than the other. They’re both terrible for you, just in different ways. But which one would a dietitian choose, if forced to pick? Kelly Smith, a registered dietitian nutritionist at Springs Nutrition and…