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SYRACUSE, NY -- #11/9 Syracuse's (14-1, 2-0) five-game winning streak will be put to the test when the Orange hosts DePaul (8-7, 0-2) on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. The Orange opened the campaign with nine straight wins before losing to Cleveland State on a three-quarter court buzzer beater. Since the defeat, the Orange has rattled off five straight and is ranked in the top 10 of the ESPN/USA Today Poll. Wednesday's game will be televised on the big east Network and can be seen live locally on Time Warner 26. Fans can also listen to the action via the Syracuse ISP Sports Network and its flagship station TK 99 (99.5 FM). The audio stream of the radio broadcast will also be available on SUathletics.com as part of Orange All Access.The game is also available free to any student on campus (in fact, to any student on any U.S. college campus -- nearly 18 million people) on ESPN360.com Buy Tickets | Live Stats | Listen Live | Game Notes (.pdf)

Researchers at The Ohio State University Medical Center have begun studying the effects of a vaccine in slowing the onset of Alzheimer's disease or preventing it altogether. 'Approximately five million people suffer from Alzheimer's disease and the numbers continue to increase,' says Dr. Douglas Scharre, a neurologist at Ohio State's Medical Center. 'The first goal is to find a way to ...

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Just seeing someone smoke can trigger smokers to abandon their nascent efforts to kick the habit, according to new research conducted at Duke University Medical Center. Brain scans taken during normal smoking activity and 24 hours after quitting show there is a marked increase in a particular kind of brain activity when quitters see photographs of people smoking.

It may be uncomfortable to think about after the holidays, but currently two-thirds of Americans are overweight and about five percent are actually clinically severely obese. New Year's resolutions are great, but they probably won't do much to solve this growing epidemic. Very few people are able to lose significant weight through diet and ...