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HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- The increased risk of poor health outcomes among single infants conceived through assisted fertilization (AF) may be due to causes of infertility rather than the procedure itself, say Norwegian researchers.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- A test that helps identify the type of cancer cells present in a tumor has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News)-- New reports on very different approaches to treating Alzheimer's disease could one day lead to better therapies for the mind-robbing condition, experts say.

AP - Here's a couch potato's dream: What if a drug could help you gain some of the benefits of exercise without working up a sweat? Scientists reported Thursday that there is such a drug — if you happen to be a mouse.

Time.com - In a field of inquiry that has yielded much disappointment, scientists studying Alzheimer's disease announce some hopeful news

A state court in Los Angeles failed to stop deep cuts in reimbursement rates to health care providers in the state Medi-Cal/Denti-Cal program which took effect on July 1.

Reuters - Children with asthma face a number of barriers to participation in physical activity, from family beliefs to school disorganization to their own misperceptions about their symptoms, the authors of a new research review say.

Reuters - People who have surgery to remove stomach cancer can cut the risk that it will return by getting antibiotics to eliminate a type of bacteria infecting the stomach's lining, researchers said on Thursday.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will exhibit a new spectrophotometer that offers unique benefits for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing laboratories dealing with donor tissue matching. The Thermo Scientific NanoDrop™ 1000 represents the growing trend of successful genome research tools finding their way to the clinical research setting.