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Concern about a prominent American health crisis has prompted Dr. Diane Lawler-Prince and Dr. Jim Stillwell to co-author the recently published "Preventing Childhood Obesity: Helping Preschool Children Become Healthy and Fit." Lawler-Prince, chair of

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Researchers have demonstrated that protein levels in urine samples can indicate both the presence and progress of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy disease in cattle. The scientists hope that their discovery might lead to the development of a urine-based t

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