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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Over the years, hunting for cancer-related genes and understanding how they work has been an valuable, although time-consuming, exercise. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Thousands of Americans suffering from the chronic inflammatory bowel condition known as Crohn's disease are leading longer, healthier lives owing to innovative new surgeries, according to experts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Devices/Technology Dilon Technologies, Inc., the leader in molecular breast imaging, announced today that they have formed an alliance with Terason Ultrasound to offer an extended imaging ability when molecular breast imaging and ultrasound may be essential. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News An abstract presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research shows that lower socioeconomic status decreased the chance of early stage diagnosis and survival of colorectal cancer in... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Using a novel technique developed by Mitchell Sogin of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) to identify different types of bacteria, scientists have completed the most precise survey to date of how microbial communities in the human gut respond to antibiotic treatment. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News When retiring, men are more likely than women to move directly from work to retirement, but overall the retirement patterns for dual-income married couples are complex and call for additional considerations in planning for the future, according to a new study from the Mandel... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News The risk of non-AIDS cancer is higher for individuals infected with HIV than for the common population, according to a meta-analysis presented here at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Although some teenagers and young adults become infertile following cancer treatment, physicians are hesitant to discuss options to preserve fertility with patients, according to a new Florida study. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Devices/Technology Who: The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control's Injury Center is launching a new web resource that provides violence prevention data from 16 funded states. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Healthcare News They are also a way to give nursing home residents some privacy for sexual expression, according to Kansas State University aging experts."By rule you can't always lock a room, but you can offer residents some privacy," said Gayle Doll, who directs K-State's Center on Aging. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News One of the most extensively used herbal supplements for improving memory and cognition has no impact on the development of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, according to new results from a $30 million, multi-center study. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News Many women separated from abusive partners still experience high-disability chronic pain after almost 2 years, according to Canadian researchers writing in The Journal of Pain , the peer review journal of the American Pain Society. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News A home-based program to advance exercise and diet led to essential, clinically meaningful improvement in body weight and physical function among older long-term cancer survivors in preliminary findings from the RENEW (Reach-out to ENhancE Wellness) trial, according to Wendy... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Raging wildfires that engulfed Southern California before this decade not only destroyed neighborhoods laying in their way, they also caused weighty health problems for many who lived outside the fires' reach. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News A University of Iowa-led international research team has found a new gene associated with the brain disorder epilepsy.While the PRICKLE1 gene mutation was special to a infrequent form of epilepsy, the study results could help lead to new ideas for overall epilepsy treatment. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Procedure News Women who have decided that they do not wish to ever become pregnant frequently choose constant sterilization. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have reported that 2 regular cancer drugs have been used to block and reverse type 1 diabetes in mice. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News Amendments that restrict civil marriage rights of same-sex couples - like Proposition 8 that lately passed in California - have led to higher levels of stress and anxiety among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults, as well as among their families of origin, according to... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) to defend children from malaria has risen six-fold in the past seven years, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have identified pathways by which a reduced-calorie diet and exercise can change a postmenopausal woman's risk of breast cancer. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Online support communities for high survival rate cancers contain a greater amount of emotional support content than online support communities for cancers with low survival rates, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System and the VA Ann Arbor... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News African-American women are at a higher risk for ER/PR negative breast cancer. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News For poorly absorbed medications, drug makers should consider using natural homing devices to drive the drugs through the hazards of gastrointestinal acidity and enzymes to reach the bloodstream quicker, James Polli, PhD, said today at the yearly meeting of the American... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News New research has traced elevated levels of a special compound in the brain to problem-solving deficits in patients with schizophrenia. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Procedure News A very low risk of difficulty is associated with a routine test that determines whether a brain aneurysm treated with endovascular coiling has started to recur, a study led by the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute has shown. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News A small bit of stress goes a long way and can have far-reaching effects. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Men's Health News A little percentage of males born with cryptorchidism (failure of one or both testicles to descend into the scrotum), the most frequent congenital birth defect in male children, are more likely to have genetic mutations, including for a syndrome that is a regular genetic cause of... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News According to findings from a National Diabetes Economic Barometer study, undiagnosed, pre-diabetes and diabetes cost the United States an estimated $217.5 billion in 2007 owing to higher medical expenditures and lost productivity. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Patent News Oncolytics Biotech Inc. today announced that it has been granted its 30th U.S. Patent, # 7,452,723, entitled "Methods for Preventing Reovirus Recognition for the Treatment of Cellular Proliferative Disorders. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News A team of researchers led by investigators at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has determined that certain commonly-prescribed medications may have the unintended consequence of increasing the frequency of migraine attacks. |
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